Special Education Schools

HC Deb 17 March 1987 vol 112 cc461-2W

14. Mr. Amess

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many special education schools there are in (a) England and (b) Essex.

Expenditure on student maintenance and fees 1970–71 to 1984–85
England and Wales
	Total expenditure on student maintenance1	Total expenditure on student maintenance and fees1
Academic years	£ million cash	in 1984–85 real terms2 (£m)	real terms in-dexed (1979–80 = 100)	£ million cash	in 1984–85 real terms2	real terms in-dexed (1979–80 = 100)
1970–713	93	442	76.4	116	551	59.5
1971–72	107	468	81.0	133	581	62.7
1972–73	108	439	76.0	135	548	59.2
1973–74	114	412	71.3	142	513	55.4
1974–75	151	447	77.3	182	538	58.1
1975–764	190	469	81.1	253	624	67.4
1976–775	227	495	85.6	308	671	72.5
1977–785	281	544	94.1	479	926	100.0
1978–79	328	570	98.6	543	944	101.9
1979–80	396	578	100.0	634	926	100.0
1980–81	467	590	102.1	774	977	105.5
1981–82	519	603	104.3	889	1,034	111.7
1982–836	557	609	105.4	797	871	94.1
1983–84	595	622	107.6	847	886	95.7
1984–85	579	579	100.2	843	843	91.0
1 Covers expenditure on mandatory, full.value and lesser value discretionary awards. Prior to 1975–76 no minimum awards or fees were paid in respect of teacher training courses outside university departments of education.
2 Applying the GDP deflator on an academic year basis.
3 The maintenance element of expenditure on lesser value awards has been estimated.
4 HND and Dip HE courses became designated courses in 1975–76.
5 Up to 1976–77 minimum awards expenditure was included in fees; from 1977–78 it was included in maintenance.
6 The change in the trend of expenditure on maintenance and fees between 1981–82 and 1982–83 reflects the reduction in tuition fees

Mr. Dunn

The number of maintained and non-maintained special schools including hospital schools, in England and Essex in January 1986, was 1,493 and 42 respectively.