Derbyshire (Capital Spending)

HC Deb 03 February 1988 vol 126 cc622-3W

Mr. Oppenheim

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was capital spending on education in Derbyshire for each parliamentary constituency in each of the last 10 years.

Mr. Dunn

Data relating to individual constituencies are not available. Excluding expenditure on voluntary aided schools, gross capital expenditure on education in Derbyshire for the years in question was as follows:

	£
1986–87	9,647,731
1985–86	9,311,397

	£
1984–85	11,109,215
1983–84	9,367,044
1982–83	10,442,459
1981–82	10,062,010
1980–81	9,069,225
1979–80	6,913,713
1978–79	6,686,695
1977–78	7,138,386

Source: Department of Environment Form CO1.

Expenditure on voluntary aided schools in 1986–87 and 1985–86 was £186,580 and £310,314 respectively. Data in relation to earlier years could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.