§ Mr. Penhaligonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list for each education authority the capital allocations for 1983–84 expressing the figures in absolute terms and in pounds per head of local population.
§ Sir Keith JosephThe information requested is given in the table following.
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England £000s £'s per head Greater London LEA Barking 2,928 20.3 Barnet 1,538 5.4 Bexley 1,633 7.9 Brent 1,180 4.8 Bromley 841 2.9 Croydon 800 2.5 Ealing 693 2.4 Enfield 311 1.2 Haringey 1,597 7.5 Harrow 305 1.6 Havering 299 1.3 Hillingdon 896 3.9 Hounslow 2,611 12.7 Kingston-upon-Thames 2,270 17.2 Merton 408 2.6 Newham 2,034 9.6 Redbridge 872 4.1 Richmond-upon-Thames 557 3.5 Sutton 266 1.6 Waltham Forest 1,624 7.6 ILEA 9,683 4.1 Metropolitan Districts West Midlands Birmingham 5,220 5.2 Coventry 3,478 10.6 Dudley 3,950 13.3 Sandwell 1,436 4.8 Solihull 356 1.8 Walsall 1,340 5.2 Wolverhampton 2,269 9.0 Merseyside Knowsley 665 3.9 Liverpool 3,768 7.7 St. Helens 2,384 12.8 Sefton 578 2.0 Wirral 2,403 7.1
£000s £'s per head Greater Manchester Bolton 2,047 7.8 Bury 982 5.5 Manchester 4,349 9.5 Oldham 780 3.5 Rochdale 1,174 5.6 Salford 1,038 4.3 Stockport 1,067 3.6 Tameside 1,871 8.7 Trafford 693 3.2 Wigan 2,518 8.0 South Yorkshire Barnsley 384 1.7 Doncaster 1,386 4.8 Rotherham 515 2.1 Sheffield 3,439 6.5 West Yorkshire Bradford 6,969 15.0 Calderdale 1,293 6.9 Kirkless 4,102 10.8 Leeds 3,381 4.7 Wakefield 2,044 6.6 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 1,003 4.9 Newcastle upon Tyne 3,134 11.2 North Tyneside 606 3.2 South Tyneside 1,181 7.5 Sunderland 2,927 9.7 Non-Metropolitan Counties Isles of Scilly — — Avon 5,853 6.3 Bedfordshire 2,437 4.7 Berkshire 8,826 12.4 Buckinghamshire 6,605 11.5 Cambridgeshire 6,370 10.4 Cheshire 8,213 8.7 Cleveland 4,009 7.0 Cornwall* 5,548 12.9 Cumbria 2,618 5.6 Derbyshire 6,849 7.6 Devon 4,817 4.9 Dorset 4,736 7.8 Durham 1,711 2.8 East Sussex 5,567 8.4 Essex 7,357 5.0 Gloucestershire 2,974 5.9 Hampshire 10,638 7.2 Hereford and Worcester 1,504 2.4 Hertfordshire 5,473 5.7 Humberside 7,133 8.4 Isle of Wight 541 4.5 Kent 4,821 3.3 Lancashire 11,069 8.1 Leicestershire 5,234 6.2 Lincolnshire 3,442 6.3 Norfolk 5,735 8.1 North Yorkshire 2,703 4.0 Northamptonshire 3,916 7.3 Northumberland 1,481 5.1 Nottinghamshire 2,493 2.6 434W
March 1983 (claimants) April 1979 (registrants) Males Percentage Females Percentage Males Percentage Females Percentage Caernarvon 3,098 20.5 897 9.7 1,477 9.8 590 6.4 Bangor Bethesda Penygroes Pwllheli 1,027 19.3 477 12.0 659 12.4 243 6.1 Porthmadog
£000s £'s per head Oxfordshire 4,014 7.2 Salop 2,727 7.1 Somerset 3,127 7.4 Staffordshire 7,676 7.6 Suffolk 3,752 6.1 Surrey 3,733 3.7 Warwickshire 1,991 4.2 West Sussex 3,705 5.5 Wiltshire 3,136 5.9 Total England 294,660 6.3 *Includes Isles of Scilly