§ Dr. Hampsonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many families are currently in receipt of educational maintenance allowances in each local education authority; and what the total number of awards have been, and their costs, in each of the last five years.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonMy Department does not collect regular information relating to the number of educational maintenance allowances made by authorities or the number of families in receipt of such allowances; but a survey carried out in the autumn term 1974 showed the following:
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Local education authority Total number of awards Total cost (£'s) Avon 117 17,174 Bedfordshire 50 6,686 Berkshire 10 850 Buckinghamshire 17 2,082 Cambridgeshire 34 3,676 Cheshire 55 5,406 Cleveland 63 5,277 Cornwall 67 3,432 Cumbria 41 5,073 Derbyshire 160 27,573 Devon 58 4,549 Dorset 67 7,945 Durham 76 9,897 East Sussex 73 8,137 Essex 81 8,409 Gloucestershire 40 4,209 Hampshire 247 50,424 Hereford and Worcester 23 1,406 Hertfordshire 151 21,089 Humberside 216 23,754 Isle of Wight 8 250 Kent 149 15,518 Lancashire 198 29,537 Leicestershire 67 5952 Lincolnshire 27 1,865 Norfolk 48 3,344 North Yorkshire 89 12,967 Northamptonshire 25 3,276 Northumberland 33 3,643 Nottinghamshire 56 9,474 Oxfordshire 44 5,184 Salop 2 96 Somerset 27 3,487 Staffordshire 22 861 Suffolk 15 855 Surrey 45 5,500 Warwickshire 21 1,444 West Sussex 37 2,889 Wiltshire 30 2,834 Birmingham 350 35,809 Coventry 28 2,820
Local education authority Total number of award* Total cost (£'s) Dudley 1 75 Sandwell 18 858 Solihull 8 582 Walsall 43 8,463 Wolverhampton 28 2,301 Knowsley 76 7,755 Liverpool 271 24,807 St. Helens 22 1,958 Sefton 44 7,773 Wirral 64 6,318 Bolton 69 7,260 Bury 19 1,950 Manchester 182 21,551 Oldham 13 1,326 Rochdale 35 3 438 Salford 72 7,626 Stockport 37 3,474 Tameside 21 2,226 Trafford 44 4,719 Wigan 52 4,854 Barnsley 21 2,592 Doncaster 44 5,755 Rotherham 47 5,268 Sheffield 89 12,141 Bradford 109 14,509 Calderdale 49 6,296 Kirklees 47 7,212 Leeds 130 15,876 Wakefield 64 8,175 Gateshead 39 3,735 Newcastle upon Tyne 72 7,128 North Tyneside 51 6,510 South Tyneside 50 7,199 Sunderland 69 9,333 Barking 11 1,086 Barnet 36 2,946 Bexley 29 3,489 Brent 52 8,838 Bromley 18 1,431 Croydon 23 3,306 Ealing 126 20,589 Enfield 15 1 382 Haringey 55 7 767 Harrow 16 1,902 Havering 7 642 Hillingdon 16 2,241 Hounslow 8 912 Kingston-upon-Thames 9 792 Merton 23 4,140 Newham 19 1,767 Redbridge 16 1,900 Richmond-upon-Thames 27 3,720 Sutton 10 1,208 Waltham Forest 15 1,476 ILEA 868 138,585 Clwyd 8 984 Dyfed 92 7,116 Gwent 98 10,050 Gwynedd 18 702 Mid-Glamorgan 181 22,143 Powys 8 996 South Glamorgan 61 6,273 West Glamorgan 48 5,973