§ Mr. Joseph Deanasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the average cost of the food provided for each child for dinners taken under the schools meal service in the United Kingdom as a whole and in each local education authority.
§ Dr. BoysonThe average food cost per meal for England and Wales in 1978–79 was 16.58p. Figures for individual local education authorities are given in the following table. My Department does not have figures for Scotland or Northern Ireland.
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p Greater Manchester Bolton 17.38 Bury 16.09 Manchester 15.97 Oldham 16.91 Rochdale 15.82 Salford 16.78 Stockport 15.77 Tameside 15.33 Trafford 17.49 Wigan 15.90 TOTAL 16.30 South Yorkshire Barnsley 15.92 Doncaster 16.28 Rotherham 17.23 Sheffield 15.26 TOTAL 16.08 West Yorkshire Bradford 18.39 Calderdale 16.63 Kirklees 14.78 Leeds 14.59 Wakefield 15.49 TOTAL 15.76 255W
p. Tyne and Wear Gateshead 16.77 Newcastle/Tyne 17.20 North Tyneside 16.39 South Tyneside 17.06 Sunderland 15.29 TOTAL 16.48 West Midlands 15.07 Merseyside 17.47 Greater Manchester 16.30 South Yorkshire 16.08 West Yorkshire 15.76 Tyne and Wear 16.48 TOTAL MET. DISTRICTS 16.05 Non-Metropolitan Counties Isles of Scilly Avon 15.63 Bedfordshire 17.61 Berkshire 15.15 Buckinghamshire 17.29 Cambridgeshire 15.77 Cheshire 16.52 Cleveland 17.44 Cornwall 15.87 Cumbria 18.13 Derbyshire 15.78 Devon 17.95 Dorset 17.72 Durham 16.28 East Sussex 17.00 Essex 16.34 Gloucestershire 17.24 Hampshire 17.55 Hereford & Worcester 15.22 Hertfordshire 17.08 Humberside 17.30 Isle of Wight 15.07 Kent 15.05 Lancashire 16.50 Leicestershire 15.70 Lincolnshire 19.30 Norfolk 16.46 North Yorkshire 19.05 Northamptonshire 15.05 Northumberland 15.54 Nottinghamshire 17.54 Oxfordshire 15.07 Salop 16.84 Somerset 15.25 Staffordshire 13.93 Suffolk 16.51 Surrey 16.82 Warwickshire 16.84 West Sussex 15.85 Wiltshire 15.94 TOTAL 16.50 Welsh Counties Clwyd 18.83 Dyfed 19.88 Gwent 17.14 Gwynedd 17.14 Mid-Glamorgan 17.20 Powys 20.25 South Glamorgan 14.56 West Glamorgan 17.92 Total 17.73
p. England: Greater London 17.53 Metropolitan District 16.05 Non-Metropolitan Counties 16.50 Total 16.51 Total Welsh Counties 17.73 Total England 16.51 Total (England and Wales) 16.58 Greater London Barking 15.24 Barnett 17.12 Bexley 18.10 Brent 17.49 Bromley 18.27 Croydon 17.99 Ealing 19.53 Enfield 17.73 Haringey 18.24 Harrow 14.59 Havering 17.94 Hillingdon 16.64 Hounslow 18.67 Kingston upon Thames 16.08 Merton 19.05 New Ham 16.61 Redbridge 16.24 Richmond upon Thames 15.77 Sutton 16.37 Waltham Forest 14.58 Total outer London 17.33 ILEA 17.91 Total Greater London 17.53 West Midlands: Metropolitan Districts Birmingham 15.43 Coventry 15.69 Dudley 15.35 Sandwell 14.26 Solihull 14.30 Walsall 15.83 Wolverhampton 13.15 Total 15.07 Merseyside: Knowsley 16.23 Liverpool 23.15 St. Helens 14.91 Sefton 13.18 Wirral 15.07 Total 17.47