Educational Maintenance Grants (Hansard, 4 December 1984)

§ Mr. Dunn

Information on the number of pupils who receive educational maintenance allowances is not collected centrally. The value of awards in each local authority for the last five years available is as follows:

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	1978–79 £	1979–80 £	1980–81 £	1981–82 £	1982–83 £
Ealing	43,223	39,548	35,603	57,541	1,664
Enfield	0	1,238	3,691	7,490	8,609
Haringey	30,085	39,368	30,653	43,794	57,490
Harrow	8,955	11,605	14,307	19,997	33,766
Havering	0	7,000	8,000	10,071	0
Hillingdon	0	0	0	11,604	6,683
Hounslow	0	0	0	7,918	14,659
Kingston-upon-Thames	6,065	7,572	8,333	6,830	7,066
Merton	6,681	8,618	7,704	8,354	11,634
Newham	23,167	20,606	17,050	13,520	28,307
Redbridge	7,715	5,769	4,798	6,078	12,533
Richmond	738	518	784	896	0
Sutton	0	0	0	0	0
Waltham Forest	0	0	0	22,141	0
Inner London	706,242	678,496	1,759,034	2,442,600	1,683,907
Birmingham	42,618	54,260	51,966	56,147	0
Coventry	17,174	15,890	23,301	49,461	82,793
Dudley	0	0	0	0	0
Sandwell	0	10,799	14,588	21,351	0
Solihull	67	0	0	0	0
Walsall	41,150	57,835	46,428	80,876	0
Wolverhampton	13,272	13,732	24,583	43,841	59,244
Knowsley	46,451	47,075	45,077	74,800	110,743
Liverpool	92,960	124,246	164,916	245,303	324,531
St. Helens	7,004	8,212	8,573	14,672	27,525
Sefton	0	0	0	0	23,655
Wirral	27,573	25,684	37,278	60,901	90,892
Bolton	38,573	36,942	48,254	71,462	101,671
Bury	11,645	15,847	20,083	36,369	69,905
Manchester	154,021	286,994	209,064	250,309	295,581
Oldham	8,698	12,676	17,029	28,840	52,959
Rochdale	17,360	16,116	22,314	35,670	53,753
Salford	26,500	30,000	29,895	39,462	0
Stockport	12,427	13,203	15,198	25,432	34,704
Tameside	13,235	16,285	16,743	24,338	0
Trafford	13,534	11,416	21,604	0	0
Wigan	16,919	29,832	25,993	28,324	76,439
Barnsley	9,956	0	11,525	6,478	11,649
Doncaster	13,869	18,313	15,911	16,509	0
Rotherham	14,073	15,715	12,209	18,804	0
Sheffield	74,544	69,232	103,562	236,622	401,438
Bradford	41,466	54,491	37,824	86,863	155,920
Calderdale	8,399	7,569	13,126	19,344	37,205
Kirklees	32,399	0	0	76,273	97,656
Leeds	0	0	0	0	0
Wakefield	32,481	32,950	12,118	12,399	7,716
Gateshead	5,309	7,841	12,129	0	0
Newcastle	38,454	61,515	51,367	64,840	86,781
North Tyneside	13,257	26,149	33,879	46,687	79,158
South Tyneside	6,357	0	15,996	23,267	28,778
Sunderland	39,165	71,504	69,673	155,487	185,688
Isle of Scilly	0	0	0	0	25,048
Avon	85,532	84,939	96,112	194,626	205,455
Bedfordshire	19,101	16,364	22,072	68,486	104,219
Berkshire	8,232	6,487	5,234	5,831	9,772
Bucks	9,041	11,599	10,921	14,526	29,904
Cambridge	72,319	45,555	39,246	41,188	31,574
Cheshire	33,761	18,109	3,374	101	0
Cleveland	21,974	0	0	0	0
Cornwall	5,255	5,517	6,028	4,967	9,007
Cumbria	12,135	48,410	13,593	20,038	0
Derby	17,295	18,250	24,635	38,556	57,098
Devon	33,759	36,070	44,779	56,790	72,556
Dorset	55,953	61,020	46,320	57,146	80,398
Durham	0	0	0	47,946	72,710
East Sussex	29,431	24,242	33,399	36,842	34,463
Essex	51,029	68,060	72,118	95,330	141,537
Gloucester	10,562	10,060	7,551	16,062	28,454
Hampshire	209,242	224,872	231,113	306,499	415,449
Hereford and Worcester	19,720	2,124	492	2,849	390
Herts	53,306	51,271	41,228	56,746	51,238
Humberside	58,008	56,269	39,572	59,950	150,177
Isle of Wight	1,055	4,142	1,803	0	4,210
Kent	22,950	0	0	0	0

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	1978–79 £	1979–80 £	1980–81 £	1981–82 £	1982–83 £
Lancashire	84,764	132,015	102,843	163,102	310,075
Leicester	8,234	7,182	4,986	3,872	2,239
Lincoln	16,587	18,516	15,780	12,105	17,334
Norfolk	2,068	0	1,863	2,236	0
North Yorkshire	40,245	34,234	25,039	46,130	64,309
Northampton	11,460	11,726	3,969	0	17,868
Northumberland	8,185	9,072	14,977	26,116	34,446
Nottingham	74,749	90,800	101,275	143,418	0
Oxford	6,833	11,585	0	0	0
Salop	9,521	16,122	16,613	20,392	33,392
Somerset	11,066	15,051	14,377	9,610	0
Stafford	3,162	0	2,513	4,024	3,916
Suffolk	10,540	16,154	16,359	55,490	36,357
Surrey	18,576	25,489	21,308	29,000	42,933
Warwick	444	225	0	0	0
West Sussex	0	0	0	15,453	0
Wiltshire	30,309	31,752	30,578	37,675	52,073