§ Sir Geoffrey Finsbergasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much was spent per pupil in primary schools in each local authority area in England for the year 1984–85; and what was the average figure for England as a whole.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe information requested is given in the following table:
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Net institutional expenditure per primary school pupil £ Barking 860 Barnet 865 Bexley 760 Brent 1,045 Bromley 780 Croydon 795 Ealing 980 Enfield 735 Haringey 1,155 Harrow 805 Havering 775 747W
£ Hillingdon 840 Hounslow 920 Kingston-upon-Thames 800 Merton 800 Newham 1,045 Redbridge 770 Richmond-upon-Thames 850 Sutton 720 Waltham Forest 915 ILEA 1,255 Birmingham 700 Coventry 825 Dudley 685 Sandwell 815 Solihull 710 Walsall 780 Wolverhampton 860 Knowsley 820 Liverpool 845 St. Helens 715 Sefton 690 Wirral 690 Bolton 655 Bury 660 Manchester 840 Oldham 750 Rochdale 745 Salford 745 Stockport 740 Tameside 760 Trafford 705 Wigan 725 Barnsley 840 Doncaster 830 Rotherham 755 Sheffield 885 Bradford 785 Calderdale 755 Kirklees 720 Leeds 740 Wakefield 795 Gateshead 850 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 900 North Tyneside 835 South Tyneside 830 Sunderland 740 Isles of Scilly 1,125 Avon 735 Bedfordshire 770 Berkshire 725 Buckinghamshire 710 Cambridgeshire 680 Cheshire 710 Cleveland 750 Cornwall 670 Cumbria 735 Derbyshire 730 Devon 670 Dorset 700 Durham 730 East Sussex 705 Essex 685 Gloucestershire 695 Hampshire 685 Hereford and Worcester 680 Hertfordshire 730 Humberside 815 Isle of Wight 705 Kent 645 Lancashire 670 Leicestershire 755 Lincolnshire 665 Norfolk 710 North Yorkshire 730 Northamptonshire 705 Northumberland 720 Nottinghamshire 785
£ Oxfordshire 765 Salop 715 Somerset 655 Staffordshire 770 Suffolk 725 Surrey 675 Warwickshire 710 West Sussex 660 Wiltshire 695 ENGLAND 760