Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the annual cost of school catering in each of the metropolitan districts of Greater Manchester metropolitan county; what is the annual cost of school catering in these metropolitan districts expressed 708W as a percentage of their annual expenditure on education; and what was the per capita expenditure on school children by the metropolitan districts of the Greater Manchester county in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonMy Department does not prepare figures of expenditure for each local education authority, but analyses of their expenditure are contained in the education statistics published annually by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, copies of which are available in the Library.