HC Deb 27 February 1978 vol 945 cc30-4W
Mr. Rooker

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list in the Official Report the number of discretionary grant awards made by each education authority in England and Wales, the average amount of each award and the total amount spent by each local education authority on discretionary grant awards.

Mr. Oakes

Comprehensive information on all discretionary awards is not collected by my Department, but the following table gives details of discretionary awards for further and higher education reported by the authorities as being designed to cover the full cost of fees and maintenance, subject to any deductions made in respect of the students' incomes and those of their parents and spouses. The latest available figures from annual statistical returns are given for each authority.

In addition, local education authorities reported 37,500 "lesser value" awards

FULL VALUE DISCRETIONARY AWARDS MADE BY LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITIES IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1976–77*
Local Education Authority Number of Awards Current Expenditure by Local Authority Average expenditure per award by Local Authority
(£ thousand) (£)
GREATER LONDON:
Inner London Education Authority … 5,501 5,904.8 1,073
Barking … 45 42.1 936
Barnet* … 429 262.3 611
Bexley … 197 118.5 601
Brent* … 438 309.7 707
Bromley … 333 244.5 734
Croydon … 223 173.4 778
Ealing* … 329 236.1 718
Enfield* … 164 89.4 545
Haringey … 369 349.2 946
Harrow … 259 188.4 727
Havering* … 166 129.4 780
Hillingdon … 262 213.3 814
Hounslow … 138 115.9 840
Kingston-upon-Thames … 163 133.7 820
Merton … 183 131.4 718
Newham … 104 118.8 1,143
Redbridge … 245 212.4 867
Richmond-upon-Thames … 284 269.0 947
Sutton* … 181 124.5 688
Waltham Forest … 175 186.1 1,063
METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS:
West Midlands:
Birmingham … 719 491.8 684
Coventry … 317 259.7 819
Dudley … 125 82.5 660
Sandwell … 109 92.6 850
Solihull* … 136 86.8 638
Walsall … 161 132.9 825
Wolverhampton … 131 98.9 755
Merseyside:
Knowsley … 288 227.6 790
Liverpool … 521 451.6 867
St Helens … 110 94.8 862
Sefton" … 166 143.7 866
Wirral … 463 265.1 573
Greater Manchester:
Bolton … 120 115.0 959
Bury … 187 150.8 806
Manchester … 328 253.4 773
Oldham … 88 64.0 727
Rochdale … 169 111.1 657
Salford … 183 95.0 519
Stockport … 327 241.2 738
Tameside … 75 47.8 637
Trafford … 252 184.9 734
Wigan … 150 148.5 990
South Yorkshire:
Barnsley … 173 122.9 710
Doncaster … 240 188.0 783
Rotherham … 119 100.2 842
Sheffield … 473 373.4 790

for further education courses current in 1975–76, with a total expenditure of £3.8 million. Because of the wide variation in the arrangements under which such awards are made, no meaningful comparison can be made between individual authorities.

Local Education Authority Number of Awards Current Expenditure by Local Authority Average expenditure per award by Local Authority
(£ thousand) (£)
West Yorkshire:
Bradford … … 707 492.6 697
Calderdale … … 194 160.6 828
Kirklees … … 357 270.3 757
Leeds … … 577 494.1 856
Wakefield … … 175 131.9 754
Tvne and Wear:
Gateshead … … 94 80.3 854
Newcastle-upon-Tyne* … … 183 127.6 697
North Tyneside … … 164 123.0 750
South Tyneside … … 45 36.1 802
Sunderland … … 78 72.1 974
NON-METROPOLITAN COUNTIES:
isles of Scilly … … 10 8.0 804
Avon … … 776 705.1 909
Bedfordshire … … 622 548.7 882
Berkshire* … … 581 405.8 698
Buckinghamshire … … 477 326.9 685
Cambridgeshire* … … 613 451.7 737
Cheshire … … 1,059 861.8 814
Cleveland … … 446 398.4 893
Cornwall … … 481 434.0 902
Cumbria* … … 599 438.4 732
Derbyshire … … 987 435.2 441
Devon … … 1,363 891.3 654
Dorset … … 893 835.8 936
Durham … … 341 298.0 874
East Sussex* … … 856 656.3 767
Essex … … 2 347 1,320.2 563
Gloucestershire … … 723 661.6 915
Hampshire* … … 1,715 1,250.7 729
Hereford and Worcester* … … 557 354.7 637
Hertfordshire* … … 1094 709.4 648
Humberside … … 947 796.2 841
Isle of Wight* … … 122 104.5 857
Kent … … 2,097 1,392.2 664
Lancashire* … … 972 646.3 665
Leicestershire … … 891 615.9 691
Lincolnshire … … 710 607.6 856
Norfolk* … … 615 418.8 681
North Yorkshire … … 858 728.1 849
Northamptonshire* … … 425 256.9 605
Northumberland … … 236 201.5 854
Nottinghamshire … … 724 637.5 880
Oxfordshire* … … 857 605.3 706
Salop … … 419 279.2 666
Somerset … … 369 324.2 879
Staffordshire* … … 863 527.5 611
Suffolk … … 746 607.0 814
Surrey … … 1,456 801.1 550
Warwickshire* … … 482 300.8 624
West Sussex* … … 810 529.8 654
Wiltshire … … 629 456.0 725
WALES:
Clwyd … … 406 241.9 596
Dyfed … … 1,463 455.1 311
Gwent … … 359 247.8 690
Gwynedd … … 47 34.0 723
Mid-Glamorgan … … 412 330.2 801
Powys … … 341 244.3 716
South Glamorgan … … 581 461.7 795
West Glamorgan … … 362 277.8 767
* The data for these authorities relate to the academic year 1975–76, those for 1976–77 not yet being available.