§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list showing the expenditure on school buildings for 1974–75 by each of the education authorities, also showing the number of maintained schools in each area, and the number of children in these schools.
§ Mr. PrenticeExpenditure figures are not available, but the following table sets out the total resources allocated to each local education authority for capital school building starts for the period 1st July 1974 to 30th June 1975. The table also shows the number of maintained schools and the number of children therein as at 1st January 1974, adjusted to take account of local government reorganisation on 1st April 1974.
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Local education authority Number of maintained schools* Number of pupils in maintained schools*† Total of capital school building starts authorised for the period 1st July 1974 to 30th June 1975‡ £'000 Kingston-upon-Thames … … 55 20,302 390 Merton … … 66 26,962 215 Newham … … 106 43,266 858 Redbridge … … 90 35,945 740 Richmond-upon-Thames … … 67 21,250 200 Sutton … … 60 25,577 660 Waltham Forest … … 92 37,292 951 Inner London Education Authority … … 1,072 409,670 2,993 Birmingham … … 488 212,222 2,057 Coventry … … 157 67,807 1,108 Dudley … … 151 54,263 530 Sandwell … … 159 63,378 1,126 Solihull … … 103 40,478 570 Walsall … … 136 56,744 956 Wolverhampton … … 131 54,223 1,097 Knowsley … … 127 47,506 865 Liverpool … … 351 115,327 1,526 St. Helens … … 117 36,062 650 Sefton … … 165 61,519 825 Wirral … … 172 65,017 2,740 Bolton … … 148 49,537 1,149 Bury … … 94 30,477 878 Manchester … … 294 100,769 905 Oldham … … 131 41,795 537 Rochdale … … 115 41,883 855 Salford … … 157 52,457 452 Stockport … … 146 54,717 1,332 Tameside … … 127 42,072 575 Trafford … … 119 43,009 1,173 Wigan … … 183 60,939 2,136 Barnsley … … 145 44,947 1,587 Doncaster … … 181 61,398 1,890 Rotherham … … 142 51,270 712 Sheffield … … 263 102,294 1,420 Bradford … … 275 87,861 2,531 Calderdale … … 134 35,782 628 Kirklees … … 226 69,935 1,456 Leeds … … 350 134,975 2,169 Wakefield … … 193 61,075 2,667 Gateshead … … 131 42,321 456 Newcastle upon Tyne … … 146 52,132 851 North Tyneside … … 116 38,091 745 South Tyneside … … 108 34,494 658 Sunderland … … 163 61,304 1,495 Isles of Scilly … … 5 335 — Avon … … 454 157,769 2,931 Bedfordshire … … 288 91,759 4,238 Berkshire … … 348 119,720 3,865 Buckinghamshire … … 334 92,444 3,645 Cambridgeshire … … 336 94,330 1,615 Cheshire … … 563 171,351 6,245 Cleveland … … 337 127,286 2,793 Cornwall … … 303 66,679 2,068 Cumbria … … 435 90,588 1,780 Derbyshire … … 582 163,989 3,294 Devon … … 538 143,291 2,961 Dorset … … 288 86,121 2,135 Durham … … 430 117,842 3,210 East Sussex … … 265 89,545 2,700 Essex … … 708 255,256 6,055 Gloucestershire … … 351 89,636 2,225 Hampshire … … 716 253,990 7,514 Hereford and Worcester … … 397 102,343 2,914 Hertfordshire … … 586 181,088 3,995 Humberside … … 494 169,512 3,437 Isle of Wight … … 66 17,701 480 Kent … … 759 252,589 6,855
Local education authority Number of maintained schools* Number of pupils in maintained schools*† Total of capital school building starts authorised for the period 1st July 1974 to 30th June 1975‡ £'000 Lancashire … … 811 242,829 3,613 Leicestershire … … 466 55,665 4,070 Lincolnshire … … 442 93,519 2,523 Norfolk … … 533 110,412 1,590 North Yorkshire … … 525 109,989 1,595 Northamptonshire … … 325 93,026 4,696 Northumberland … … 235 52,349 1,586 Nottinghamshire … … 568 188,693 3,001 Oxfordshire … … 326 92,792 2,821 Salop … … 279 65,212 1,760 Somerset … … 294 65,808 1,954 Staffordshire … … 646 186,663 3,324 Suffolk … … 361 95,094 2,915 Surrey … … 467 157,696 3,510 Warwickshire … … 321 88,494 1,899 West Sussex … … 277 97,766 2,555 Wiltshire … … 370 95,378 2,010 * Numbers of schools and pupils as at 1st January 1974, but re-allocated to LEA areas as established after 1st April 1974. Figures include immigrant centres, but not special schools or nursery schools. † Pupil numbers include children under statutory school age attending primary schools part-time, expressed as "full-time equivalents". ‡ At 1974 prices. Totals do not include allocations for major works at special schools or further education establishments, or for nursery school building.