§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will now publish the education grant-related expenditure assessments of local authorities in England.
§ Sir Keith Joseph[pursuant to his reply, 7 February 1983, c. 250]: Details of the GREs for education and all other services are being published by the Department of the Environment in its Technical Handbook of Grant-Related Expenditure Assessments for 1983–84. Copies of this document will be placed in the Library of the House straight after Easter.
The total education GRE in 1983–84 is £10,016 million, compared with a total GRE for all services of £19,230 million. The latter figure does not include the sum of £904 million which has been included within relevant expenditure but not allocated among services; this sum recognises that some local authorities need more time to adjust their expenditure to the level which the Government believe desirable. It is for local authorities to decide how this allowance will be spent, but it would be reasonable to assume that actual spending on services will be broadly consistent with the present pattern of expenditure, taking account of authorities' statutory responsibilities and Government policies.
The education components for each local education authority of the grant-related expenditure — GRE — assessments published in the Rate Support Grant Report (England) 1983–84 on 17 January 1983 are as follows. These figures include expenditure on all parts of the education service — including the youth service and student awards. They also include debt charges relating to capital expenditure prior to 1981–82 — and also later capital expenditure on advanced further education—and a portion of local authorities' administrative costs.
While the figures represent the Government's best judgment on the basis of a total education GRE of £10,016 million of the expenditure that each local authority would—given its particular circumstances-need to incur in 1983–84 in order to provide a level of service comparable 216W to that of other authorities, they are necessarily approximate. The figures have been aggregated with figures for other services to derive a total GRE for each authority which itself is the basis for the calculation of an unhypothecated block grant.
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Authority Education GRE 1983–84 £ million
London Barking 31.7 Barnet 55.5 Bexley 48.0 Brent 63.9 Bromley 56.7 Croydon 68.5 Ealing 65.2 Enfield 57.3 Haringey 49.8 Harrow 39.5 Havering 51.7 Hillingdon 49.0 Hounslow 44.0 Kingston-upon-Thames 24.9 Merton 32.3 Newham 57.8 Redbridge 45.6 Richmond-upon-Thames 25.8 Sutton 32.6 Waltham Forest 49.6 Inner London Education Authority 513.8 West Midlands Birmingham 246.9 Coventry 75.0 Dudley 64.2 Sandwell 74.6 Solihull 47.7 Walsall 65.9 Wolverhampton 66.4 Merseyside Knowsley 45.1 Liverpool 116.3 St. Helens 45.0 Sefton 64.2 Wirral 74.5 Greater Manchester Bolton 60.5 Bury 38.3 Manchester 103.1 Oldham 50.0 Rochdale 49.1 Salford 53.6 Stockport 61.6 Tameside 48.3 Trafford 48.0 Wigan 69.8 South Yorkshire Barnsley 49.4 Doncaster 65.9 Rotherham 59.3 Sheffield 114.5 West Yorkshire Bradford 109.2 Calderdale 42.8 Kirklees 88.7 Leeds 154.1 Wakefield 68.1 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 43.4 Newcastle upon Tyne 54.0 North Tyneside 40.6
Authority Education GRE 1983–84 £ million
South Tyneside 37.0 Sunderland 66.4 Non-Metropolitan Counties Avon 178.9 Bedfordshire 120.0 Berkshire 149.5 Buckinghamshire 130.5 Cambridgeshire 124.1 Cheshire 212.4 Cleveland 138.4 Cornwall 86.2 Cumbria 102.5 Derbyshire 193.5 Devon 180.7 Dorset 107.9 Durham 125.2 East Sussex 110.4 Essex 314.9 Gloucestershire 103.7 Hampshire 308.5 Hereford and Worcester 136.4 Hertfordshire 210.9 Humberside 191.7 Isle of Wight 23.2 Kent 312.6 Lancashire 297.6 Leicestershire 189.4 Lincolnshire 118.6 Norfolk 138.5 North Yorkshire 137.9 Northamptonshire 121.3 Northumberland 63.6 Nottinghamshire 215.4 Oxfordshire 108.6 Shropshire 85.9 Somerset 84.3 Staffordshire 222.3 Suffolk 120.3 Surrey 187.2 Warwickshire 105.1 West Sussex 120.4 Wiltshire 112.4