HC Deb 29 October 1975 vol 898 cc496-9W
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the results of the most recent census on pupil maintenance grants, showing for each local education authority the number of pupils for whom maintenance grants were paid, the proportion

Local Education Authority Number of pupils in receipt of EMA's Proportion of EMA holders to all pupils over school leaving age Average annual value of EMA
(percentage) (£'s)
Avon 117 2.5 147
Bedfordshire 50 2.5 134
Berkshire 10 0.2 85
Buckinghamshire 17 0.5 122
Cambridgeshire 34 1.5 108
Cheshire 55 1.3 98
Cleveland 63 1.8 84
Cornwall 67 4.9 51
Cumbria 41 1.4 124
Derbyshire 160 3.9 172
Devon 58 1.7 78
Dorset 67 2.7 119
Durham 76 2.8 130
East Sussex 73 2.5 111
Essex 81 0.9 104
Gloucestershire 40 1.4 105
Hampshire 247 3.2 204
Hereford and Worcester 23 0.9 61
Hertfordshire 151 1.9 140
Humberside 216 5.5 110
Isle of Wight 8 1.4 31
Kent 149 1.8 104
Lancashire 198 3.0 149
Leicestershire 67 1.5 89
Lincolnshire 27 1.1 69
Norfolk 48 2.3 70
North Yorkshire 89 2.2 146
Northamptonshire 25 1.2 131
Northumberland 33 2.0 110
Nottinghamshire 56 1.3 169
Oxfordshire 44 2.1 118
Salop 2 0.1 48
Somerset 27 1.8 129
Staffordshire 22 0.2 39
Suffolk 15 0.7 57
Surrey 45 0.6 122
Warwickshire 21 0.8 69
West Sussex 37 0.9 78
Wiltshire 30 1.0 94
Birmingham 350 5.0 102
Coventry 28 1.7 101
Dudley 1 0.07 75
Sandwell 18 1.4 48
Solihull 8 0.9 73
Walsall 43 2.5 197
Wolverhampton 28 1.8 82
Knowsley 76 9.6 102
Liverpool 271 4.2 92
St. Helens 22 3.9 89
Sefton 44 2.5 177
Wirral 64 3.3 99
Bolton 69 7.4 105
Bury 19 3.2 103
Manchester 182 6.8 118
Oldham 13 2.2 102
Rochdale 35 3.8 98

these represented of all pupils over the school leaving age and the average grant paid, respectively.

Miss Joan Lestor

The following table is based on the results of an inquiry carried out in the autumn term 1974. This information is provided with the agreement of the local authority associations which collaborated in the inquiry.

Local Education Authority Numbers of pupils in receipt of EMA's Proportion of EMA holders to all pupils over schools leaving age Average annual value of EMA
(percentage) (£'s)
Salford 72 7.7 106
Stockport 37 2.2 94
Tameside 21 2.9 106
Trafford 44 4.4 107
Wigan 52 3.1 93
Barnsley 21 2.6 123
Doncaster 44 2.5 131
Rotherham 47 3.7 112
Sheffield 89 3.4 136
Bradford 109 5.0 133
Calderdale 49 4.5 128
Kirklees 47 2.2 153
Leeds 130 3.6 122
Wakefield 64 5.0 128
Gateshead 39 5.2 96
Newcastle upon Tyne 72 4.7 99
North Tyneside 51 4.8 128
South Tyneside 50 6.5 144
Sunderland 69 4.5 135
Barking 11 2.0 99
Barnet 36 1.3 82
Bexley 29 1.9 120
Brent 52 2.2 170
Bromley 18 0.8 80
Croydon 23 1.3 144
Ealing 126 2.2 163
Enfield 15 0.8 92
Haringey 55 3.9 141
Harrow 16 0.9 119
Havering 7 0.4 92
Hillingdon 16 1.4 140
Hounslow 8 0.6 114
Kingston-upon-Thames 9 0.9 88
Merton 23 1.7 180
Newham 19 1.9 93
Redbridge 16 1.5 119
Richmond-upon-Thame 27 1.3 135
Sutton 10 0.8 121
Waltham Forest 15 1.0 98
ILEA 868 5.3 160
Clwyd 8 0.4 123
Dyfed 92 4.4 77
Gwent 98 3.2 103
Gwynedd 18 1.1 39
Mid-Glamorgan 181 4.8 122
Powys 8 1.1 125
South Glamorgan 61 2.3 103
West Glamorgan 48 2.2 124