HC Deb 12 January 1988 vol 125 cc202-4W
Mr. Nicholas Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list all local education authorities in England in rank order of expenditure per secondary pupil per year, starting with the highest spending authority, together with their position in the table of examination results for school leavers achieving five or more O-levels at grades A to C or CSE grade 1, in the latest year for which figures are available.

Mrs. Rumbold

The information requested is as follows:

Expenditure1 Examination results2
Per pupil £ Percentage of leavers achieving defined results Ranking
29 Nottinghamshire 1,220 18.4 72
30 Leicestershire 1,205 21.6 59
31 Richmond-upon-Thames 1,200 25.2 34
32 Salford 1,200 21.6 60
33 Bexley 1,195 25.5 30
34 Oxfordshire 1,190 23.5 48
35 Walsall 1185 18.3 73
36 Gateshead 1,185 20.1 66
37 Hertfordshire 1,180 29.2 12
38 Birmingham 1,175 17.5 81
39 Bury 1,175 26.6 24
40 Cleveland 1,175 28.1 13
41 Barnsley 1,165 15.0 89
42 Tameside 1,160 24.3 40
43 Avon 1,160 25.5 31
44 St. Helens 1,150 22.0 56
45 Sunderland 1,150 18.3 75
46 Berkshire 1,150 27.3 17
47 Doncaster 1,145 17.2 82
48 Trafford 1,140 32.2 6
49 Bedfordshire 1,140 25.4 32
50 Buckinghamshire 1,140 30.9 8
51 Sutton 1,135 27.7 16
52 Dudley 1,125 20.1 67
53 Sefton 1,125 25.7 29
54 Wirral 1,125 22.0 57
55 Derbyshire 1,125 22.5 58
56 Humberside 1,125 19.4 69
57 Shropshire 1,125 24.3 42
58 Staffordshire 1,125 24.6 38
59 Solihull 1,115 27.2 20
60 Bolton 1,115 23.7 45
61 Stockport 1,115 22.7 53
62 Essex 1,115 26.0 27
63 Calderdale 1,110 22.6 54
64 North Yorkshire 1,110 32.9 5
65 Northamptonshire 1,110 20.9 63
66 Surrey 1,110 34.1 4
67 Oldham 1,095 13.9 91
68 Cumbria 1,095 25.1 35
69 Devon 1,095 23.5 47
70 Durham 1,095 18.9 71
71 Gloucestershire 1,095 28.1 14
72 Lancashire 1,095 25.0 36
73 Norfolk 1,095 23.0 50
74 Wakefield 1,090 17.8 79
75 Cheshire 1,090 27.2 19
76 Bradford 1,085 16.5 84
77 East Sussex 1,085 25.9 28
78 Warwickshire 1,085 27.8 15
79 Northumberland 1,075 29.5 11
80 Rotherham 1,070 18.3 74
81 Hampshire 1,065 26.3 26
82 Leeds 1,060 21.9 58
83 Hereford and Worcester 1,060 26.8 23
84 West Sussex 1,060 31.3 7
85 Kirklees 1,055 25.3 33
86 Wiltshire 1,055 24.3 41
87 Cornwall 1,045 26.4 25
88 Cambridgeshire 1,040 22.9 51
89 Somerset 1,040 23.2 49
90 Dorset 1,030 27.1 21
91 Isle of Wight 1,030 16.7 83
92 Suffolk 1,030 22.9 52
93 Lincolnshire 1,025 24.2 43
94 Kent 1,015 26.9 22
Notes:
1 The recurrent institutional expenditure per secondary school pupil (1985–86 cash) is based on LEA returns of expenditure to DOE and of pupil numbers to DES.
2 The examination results ranking is based on a departmental survey sample of 10 per cent. of all school leavers in each LEA (excluding special school pupils) who have attained the minimum school leaving age. The percentages quoted do not reflect pupils who achieved CSE/ GCE qualifications after leaving school, or those who achieved vocational or other qualifications either at school or elsewhere. The rankings make no allowance for differing socio-economic factors (see DES statistical bulletin 13/84).
3 Expenditure figures are not available for Merton and Newham, which rank 46th and 93rd respectively on examination results as defined.