HC Deb 26 June 1986 vol 100 cc247-9W
Mr. Peter Bruinvels

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will show for each local education authority in England (a) the percentage of all pupils in maintained schools in England educated by that local education authority and (b) the percentage of expenditure on schools in England incurred by that local education authority.

Mr. Dunn

The information is as follows:

Maintained Nursery, Primary, Secondary* and Special Schools
No. of Pupils as percentage of England total (January 1985) Institutional† Expenditure as percentage of England total (1984–85)
Barking 0.34 0.37
Barnet 0.56 0.63
Bexley 0.46 0.46
Brent 0.48 0.65
Bromley 0.53 0.56
Croydon 0.61 0.67
Ealing 0.53 0.62
Enfield 0.54 0.56
Haringey 0.38 0.56
Harrow 0.37 0.39
Havering 0.52 0.56
Hillingdon 0.47 0.53
Hounslow 0.44 0.50
Kingston-upon-Thames 0.25 0.26
Merton 0.31 0.32
Newham 0.51 0.67
Redbridge 0.42 0.44
Richmond-upon-Thames 0.22 0.23
Sutton 0.31 0.31
Waltham Forest 0.45 0.59
ILEA 3.96 7.04
Birmingham 2.40 2.32
Coventry 0.71 0.79
Dudley 0.67 0.60
Sandwell 0.73 0.76
Solihuil 0.49 0.46
Walsall 0.70 0.70
Wolverhampton 0.62 0.68
Knowsley 0.41 0.46
Liverpool 1.15 ‡—
St. Helens 0.46 0.44
Sefton 0.66 0.61
Wirral 0.75 0.71

No. of Pupils as percentage of England total (January 1985) Institutional† Expenditure as percentage of England total (1984–85)
Bolton 0.64 0.58
Bury 0.38 0.37
Manchester 1.00 1.20
Oldham 0.54 0.51
Rochdale 0.51 0.54
Salford 0.55 0.57
Stockport 0.63 0.66
Tameside 0.51 0.50
Trafford 0.42 0.40
Wigan 0.77 0.78
Barnsley 0.53 0.54
Doncaster 0.71 0.71
Rotherham 0.63 0.60
Sheffield 1.12 1.25
Bradford 1.15 1.15
Calderdale 0.46 0.43
Kirklees 0.92 0.84
Leeds 1.56 1.47
Wakefield 0.73 0.69
Gateshead 0.45 0.46
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 0.56 0.67
North Tyneside 0.44 0.48
South Tyneside 0.36 0.37
Sunderland 0.74 0.70
Avon 1.89 1.90
Bedfordshire 1.18 1.19
Berkshire 1.50 1.47
Buckinghamshire 1.33 1.26
Cambridgeshire 1.33 1.21
Cheshire 2.13 2.02
Cleveland 1.45 1.42
Cornwall 0.94 0.81
Cumbria 1.07 1.02
Derbyshire 2.03 1.95
Devon 1.83 1.64
Dorset 1.11 1.01
Durham 1.38 1.27
East Sussex 1.13 1.05
Essex 3.21 2.97
Gloucestershire 1.06 1.00
Hampshire 3.03 2.77
Hereford and Worcester 1.35 1.25
Hertfordshire 2.17 2.13
Humberside 2.01 2.04
Isle of Wight 0.24 0.23
Kent 3.13 2.76
Lancashire 3.03 2.83
Leicestershire 1.94 1.94
Lincolnshire 1.18 1.07
Norfolk 1.45 1.34
North Yorkshire 1.40 1.34
Northamptonshire 1.30 1.25
Northumberland 0.68 0.66
Nottinghamshire 2.23 2.28
Oxfordshire 1.05 1.07
Salop 0.88 0.85
Somerset 0.88 0.78
Staffordshire 2.32 2.32
Suffolk 1.27 1.20
Surrey 1.77 1.67
Warwickshire 1.05 0.98
West Sussex 1.27 1.12
Wiltshire 1.11 1.02
England 100.00 100.00
* including sixth form colleges.
† Institutional expenditure includes the direct and indirect costs of providing tuition (ie salaries and wages, premises costs and certain supplies and services costs). It does not include the costs of school meals, central administration and inspection costs or debt charges and revenue contributions to capital outlay.
‡ The 1984–85 expenditure by Liverpool is not available.

Mr. Peter Bruinvels

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list for each shire education authority the increase in education spending in percentage terms budgeted for 1986–87 over that budgeted for 1985–86.

Mr. Chris Patten

The information requested is as follows:

Increase percentage in budgeted expenditure between 1985–86 and 1986–87
Percentage change
Avon 6.8
Bedfordshire 4.9
Berkshire 4.2
Buckinghamshire 8.7
Cambridgeshire 7.4
Cheshire 8.0
Cleveland 6.5
Cornwall 7.6
Cumbria 6.5
Derbyshire 7.1
Devon 7.8
Dorset 10.5
Durham 3.4
East Sussex 7.5
Essex 6.6
Gloucestershire 8.0
Hampshire 8.7
Hereford and Worcester 6.6
Hertfordshire 8.1
Humberside 6.0
Isle of Wight 7.1
Kent 4.7
Lancashire 7.2
Leicestershire 5.9
Lincolnshire 6.6
Norfolk 5.9
Northamptonshire 5.3
Northumberland 8.1
North Yorkshire 8.3
Nottinghamshire -0.1
Oxfordshire 9.6
Shropshire 8.4
Somerset 11.4
Staffordshire 4.4
Suffolk 4.8
Surrey 8.9
Warwickshire 6.6
West Sussex 6.0
Wiltshire 10.5
Shire Counties England 6.7

These percentages represent the budgeted changes in cash expenditure from last year to this, on the basis of the outturn prices expected for each of the two years.