Sir Peter Hordenasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a table showing the level of expenditure on student grants each year since 1978, and the number of students attending universities and polytechnics, taken separately in those years.
§ Mr. WaldenThe information is shown in the following table. The figures cannot be directly compared since awards are for students from England and Wales studying anywhere in the United Kingdom, while student numbers include postgraduates, part-timers and overseas students.
overall of (a) all the councils under Conservative control and (b) all the councils under Labour control for the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. DunnIn January 1985, the latest date for which information is available, the pupil-teacher ratios in maintained primary and secondary schools, the overall pupil-teacher ratio for each local education authority, and an indication of the political control of each authority were as follows:
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Conservative Pupil-teacher ratio in maintained primary schools Pupil-teacher ratio in maintained secondary schools Overall Pupil-teacher ratio Barnet 19.9 14.3 15.9 Bexley 23.2 16.7 18.3 Bromley 23.3 16.4 18.3 Croydon 22.1 15.4 17.3 Ealing 20.1 14.6 16.4 Enfield 22.6 15.1 17.0 Harrow 21.0 14.3 16.7 Havering 22.7 15.6 17.3 Hillingdon 22.4 15.7 18.0 Kingston-upon-Thames 22.2 15.2 17.2 Merton 21.8 16.8 17.3 Redbridge 23.6 16.0 18.1 Sutton 24.9 16.8 19.1 Solihull 23.3 16.2 18.3 Sefton 23.3 16.6 18.4 Wirral 23.7 16.0 18.3 Bury 22.4 15.4 17.5 Trafford 22.9 16.4 18.3 Buckinghamshire 24.2 16.4 19.5 Dorset 23.7 17.1 18.5 East Sussex 23.1 17.1 18.3 Hereford & Worcester 24.1 17.4 18.6 Kent 23.6 17.0 19.0 Lincolnshire 24.4 17.2 18.9 Norfolk 22.1 16.5 18.4 Suffolk 22.1 17.0 18.3 Surrey 22.3 16.3 18.6 West Sussex 23.4 16.9 19.2 Labour Barking 21.1 15.4 17.0 Haringey 18.9 13.1 14.5 Hounslow 20.0 15.7 16.9 Newham 20.2 13.8 15.0 Inner London 17.1 13.1 13.6 Coventry 22.3 15.6 16.8 Sandwell 22.3 15.1 17.0 Wolverhampton 19.3 14.9 15.8 Knowsley 21.6 14.9 16.3 St. Helens 22.5 15.5 17.6 Manchester 22.1 14.3 16.2 Salford 21.3 15.0 16.9 Tameside 23.3 15.7 17.8 Wigan 21.2 15.1 16.9 Barnsley 21.1 16.2 17.2 Doncaster 21.2 16.4 17.7 Rotherham 21.6 16.5 18.1 Sheffield 20.0 15.4 17.0 Wakefield 21.7 17.0 18.5 Gateshead 19.2 15.4 16.3 Newcastle upon Tyne 19.3 14.4 15.7 North Tyneside 19.1 14.1 15.4 South Tyneside 20.8 14.6 16.1 Sunderland 21.9 15.9 17.7 Durham 22.0 16.8 18.5 No Overall Control Brent 18.4 12.3 13.7 Richmond-upon-Thames 21.0 16.4 17.6 Waltham Forest 21.1 13.8 15.4 Birmingham 22.6 16.3 18.0 Dudley 23.2 15.6 18.3 Walsall 20.8 14.8 16.6 Liverpool 20.6 15.8 17.2 Bolton 23.9 15.8 18.1 Oldham 22.9 16.6 18.1 Rochdale 22.5 14.9 16.7 Stockport 23.2 16.2 18.3 Bradford 20.2 16.8 17.0 Calderdale 21.8 16.8 17.7 Kirklees 22.1 16.8 18.1 Leeds 22.5 16.3 17.7 Avon 24.1 16.6 18.7 Bedfordshire 23.1 17.3 18.2
Pupil-teacher ratio in maintained primary schools Pupil-teacher ratio in maintained secondary schools Overall Pupil-teacher ratio Berkshire 23.2 16.0 17.8 Cambridgeshire 23.3 16.9 19.3 Cheshire 22.8 17.0 18.6 Cleveland 22.2 16.3 18.2 Cornwall 23.5 16.9 18.7 Cumbria 21.1 15.7 17.2 Derbyshire 22.4 16.8 18.3 Devon 23.7 16.8 18.8 Essex 23.9 17.0 19.0 Gloucestershire 23.1 16.8 19.0 Hampshire 24.1 17.2 19.6 Hertfordshire 22.2 16.0 17.8 Humberside 20.9 16.2 17.4 Isle of Wight 23.8 17.8 18.5 Lancashire 23.7 16.6 18.8 Leicestershire 22.9 16.1 17.8 North Yorkshire 22.0 16.6 18.0 Northamptonshire 22.2 16.3 17.7 Northumberland 23.3 16.9 18.6 Nottinghamshire 21.0 15.6 17.6 Oxfordshire 23.9 17.2 18.2 Shropshire 21.5 15.9 17.8 Somerset 24.2 17.6 19.2 Staffordshire 22.4 16.1 17.9 Warwickshire 22.6 16.9 18.7 Wiltshire 23.4 17.3 19.2 ENGLAND 22.2 16.1 17.8