HC Deb 31 October 1979 vol 972 c517W
Dr. Edmund Marshall

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the average cost to public funds of educating a child of less than 11 years of age in the maintained schools of England and Wales for the last year for which the figure is available.

Dr. Boyson

In the financial year 1977–78 the average net institutional recurrent cost per child at maintained primary—including middle deemed primary—schools in England and Wales was £324 at 1978 survey prices.