§ Mr. Jack Thompsonasked the Secretary State for Education and Science if he will list the cost to each local education authority of school transport for the years 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984, respectively.
§ Mr. DunnThe net cost to each local education authority of providing children with transport between home and school, for each of the three years to 1983–84, is given in the following table. Information for 1984–85 is not yet available.
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Local Education Authority Recurrent Expenditure on Home to School Transport £000s, Cash Prices 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 Greater London Barking 330 316 332 Barnet 788 918 917 Bexley 560 580 562 Brent 993 1,210 1,253 Bromley 680 647 686 Croydon 630 645 544 Ealing 1,017 1,070 1,103 Enfield 747 710 529 Haringey 576 718 742 Harrow 315 700 515 Havering 558 557 513 Hillingdon 466 524 480 Hounslow 778 836 824 Kingston-upon-Thames 247 291 244 Merton 283 280 53 Newham n/a n/a 456 Redbridge 490 544 534 Richmond-upon-Thames 288 247 250 Sutton 452 512 486 Waltham Forest 539 567 591 Inner London 3,248 4,045 4,120 Metropolitan Districts Birmingham 1,195 1,292 1,369 Coventry 248 295 354 Dudley 266 287 301 Sandwell 335 375 406 Solihull 357 409 488 Walsall 350 426 444 Wolverhampton 260 328 293 Knowsley 248 256 258 Liverpool 1,401 1,400 1,359 St. Helens 440 437 466 Sefton 445 245 326 Wirral 972 904 1,016 Bolton 419 449 487 Bury 285 269 273 Manchester 1,367 1,215 1,319 Oldham 331 366 342 Rochdale 303 292 276 Salford 396 437 443 Stockport 494 532 524 Tameside 366 406 437 Trafford 466 464 470 Wigan 463 414 494 Barnsley 239 241 255 Doncaster 466 483 520 Rotherham 604 606 604 Sheffield 868 883 989 Bradford 1,298 1,315 1,395 Calderdale 719 751 892 Kirklees 797 967 1,064 Leeds 2,155 2,293 2,139 Wakefield 527 540 561 Gateshead 256 252 166 Newcastle upon Tyne 449 437 443 North Tyneside 220 261 289 South Tyneside 142 127 144 Sunderland 199 238 261 Shire Counties Isles of Scilly 3 3 4 Avon 3,136 3,409 3,765 Bedfordshire 2,583 2,577 2,846 Berkshire 2,409 2,591 2,551 Buckinghamshire 3,588 3,988 4,236 Cambridgeshire 3,019 3,355 3,506
1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 Cheshire 3,566 3,879 3,900 Cleveland 1,014 967 1,055 Cornwall 2,578 2,903 3,094 Cumbria 3,146 3,428 3,955 Derbyshire 3,272 3,569 3,789 Devon 5,644 5,945 6,578 Dorset 2,695 2,994 3,289 Durham 3,075 2,991 3,101 East Sussex 1,892 2,061 2,156 Essex 6,389 6,784 7,048 Gloucestershire 2,418 2,651 2,845 Hampshire 5,328 5,399 5,341 Hereford and Worcester 2,557 2,735 2,727 Hertfordshire 3,377 3,394 3,463 Humberside 2,690 2,986 3,087 Isle of Wight 659 750 806 Kent 8,177 8,547 9,190 Lancashire 4,689 4,762 5,076 Leicestershire 3,010 3,160 3,640 Lincolnshire 3,342 3,716 3.897 Norfolk 3,835 4,424 4.897 North Yorkshire 3,772 3,783 4,602 Northamptonshire 2,353 2,512 2,721 Northumberland 1,780 1,853 2,017 Nottinghamshire 2,974 2,958 2,897 Oxfordshire 2,454 2,846 2,874 Salop 2,313 2,296 2,469 Somerset 2,379 2,504 2,803 Staffordshire 4,261 4,003 3,779 Suffolk 3,202 3,335 3,475 Surrey 4,052 4,209 4,543 Warwickshire 2,283 2,183 2,283 West Sussex 2,373 2,315 2,523 Wiltshire 2,560 2,633 2,656