§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the amount of money spent per child by education authorities in the West Midlands; and what is the average for the United Kingdom as a whole.
§ Dr. BoysonNet recurrent expenditure per pupil by local education authorities in the West Midlands and England as a whole in 1980–81, the latest year available was as follows:
Primary Secondary £ £ Birmingham 523 771 Coventry 573 798 Dudley 466 693 Sandwell 552 813 Solihull 495 713 Walsall 565 781 Wolverhampton 610 858 (West Midlands) 537 776 England 552 804 Comparable figures for the United Kingdom as a whole are not available.