§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report a table indicating each local education authority's school transport costs for the last 12 months for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Prentice:The information is as follows:
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EXPENDITURE ON TRANSPORTING PUPILS BETWEEN HOME AND SCHOOL: ENGLAND AND WALES—FINANCIAL YEAR, 1973–74 LEA £Outturn Prices ENGLAND: COUNTIES Bedfordshire 467,280 Berkshire 549,330 Buckinghamshire 750,308 Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely 424,555 Cheshire 1,100,937 Cornwall 539,948 Cumberland 350,500 Derbyshire 590,423 Devon 928,032 Dorset 555,893 Durham 763,474 Essex 1,434,881 Gloucestershire 658,101 Hampshire 1,034,559 Herefordshire 292,312 Hertfordshire 1,244,151 Huntingdonshire and Peterborough 299,317 Isle of Wight 138,795 Isles of Scilly 2,082 Kent 1,508,137 Lancashire 1,994,125 Leicestershire 578,857 Lincolnshire-Holland n.a. Lincolnshire-Kesteven n.a. Lincolnshire-Lindsey n.a. Norfolk 640,832 Northamptonshire 469,561 Northumberland 546,736 Nottinghamshire 560,096 Oxfordshire 333,496 Rutland n.a. Shropshire 501,048 Somerset 1,040,769 Staffordshire 589,196 Suffolk East 406,633 Suffolk West 340,452 Surrey 1,118,695 Sussex East 454,437 Sussex West 528,711 Warwickshire 696,674 Westmorland 133,180 Wiltshire 593,564 Worcestershire 536,632 Yorkshire East Riding 347,980 Yorkshire North Riding 503,246 Yorkshire West Riding 1,532,196 109W
ENGLAND: COUNTY BOROUGHS Barnsley 15,257 Barrow in Furness n.a. Bath 27,036 Birkenhead 62,130 Birmingham 439,927 Blackburn n.a. Blackpool 44,203 Bolton 62,375 Bootle 38,214 Bournemouth 61,362 Bradford 187,912 Brighton n.a. Bristol 147,792 Burnley n.a. Burton on Trent n.a. Bury 22,806 Canterbury n.a. Carlisle n.a. Chester 27,337 Coventry 172,923 Darlington 16,363 Derby 123,465 Dewsbury n.a. Doncaster 21,667 Dudley n.a. Eastbourne n.a. Exeter 23,356 Gateshead 28,227 Gloucester 52,014 Great Yarmouth 13,851 Grimsby 7,871 Halifax 67,750 Hartlepool 40,967 Hastings 19,156 Huddersfield 72,327 Ipswich 21,765 Kingston upon Hull 129,865 Leeds 272,972 Leicester 169,805 Lincoln n.a. Liverpool 375,663 Luton n.a. Manchester 288,373 Newcastle upon Tyne 90,278 Northampton n.a. Norwich 39,681 Nottingham 91,114 Oldham 27,675 Oxford 33,697 Plymouth 128,605 Portsmouth 53,339 Preston 37,000 Reading 66,142 Rochdale 16,630 Rotherham n.a. St. Helens 23,455 Salford 33,400 Sheffield 166,497 Solihull 61,603 Southampton 56,584 Southend on Sea 49,635 Southport 31,502 South Shields 32,922 Stockport 56,310 Stoke on Trent 104,053 Sunderland 32,191 Teesside 116,535 Torbay 32,331 Tynemouth 13,556 Wakefield 15,480 Wallasey 41,315 Walsall 42,570
LEA £ Outturn Prices Warley 47,805 Warrington n.a. West Bromwich 43,000 Wigan 14,063 Wolverhampton 82,494 Worcester 23,516 York n.a. OUTER LONDON Barking 654,890 Barnet 228,624 Bexley n.a. Brent 362,447 Bromley 252,457 Croydon 302,971 Ealing 514,000 Enfield 226,394 Harringey 138,498 Harrow 117,423 Havering 212,485 Hillingdon 216,569 Hounslow 269,059 Kingston upon Thames 71,435 Merton n.a. Newham 153,390 Redbridge 209,198 Richmond upon Thames 122,808 Sutton 141,477 Waltham Forest 118,849 INNER LONDON 1,236,046 WALES: COUNTIES Anglesey 121,002 Breconshire 135,000 Caernarvonshire 185,048 Cardiganshire 135,370 Carmarthenshire 291,985 Denbighshire 300,192 Flintshire 206,539 Glamorgan 1,186,670 Merioneth 100.163 Monmouthshire 613,034 Montgomeryshire 218,297 Pembrokeshire 214,020 Radnorshire 116,000 WALES: COUNTY BOROUGHS Cardiff 165.001 Merthyr Tydfil 48,992 Newport (Monmouthshire) 51.123 Swansea 163,023