Public Expenditure (Hansard, 28 July 1988)

§ Mr. Worthington
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a table in theOfficial Report, in the same format as his written reply of 15 July, Official Report, columns 373–74, on receipts classified as charges in respect of his programme expenditure over the years 1982–83 to 1990–91, indicating the receipts in respect of running costs expenditure, together with a supplementary analysis indicating, separately, the amounts of receipts in respect of programme expenditure and of running costs expenditure estimated to have been met from other public expenditure programmes.

§ Mrs. Rumbold
Receipts against DES running costs expenditure are as follows:

£ million

1982–83 outturn 1

1983–84 outturn 2

1984–85 outturn 2

1985–86 outturn 2

1986–87 outturn 1

1987–88 estimated outturn 1

1988–89 plans 1

1989–90 plans 1

1990–91 plans 1

None of these receipts is included in other Department's running costs. The remaining information requested is not readily available in respect of local education authority receipts; details of research council receipts are published in the annual appropriation accounts.

§ Mr. Worthington
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in theOfficial Report an analysis for the years 1982–83 to 1990–91, consistent with his reply of 15 July, Official Report, columns 373–74, of receipts for (a) schools' expenditure, analysed by (i) meals, (ii) milk sales, (iii) rents, (iv) fees and charges and (v) grants, (b) further and higher education expenditure, analysed by (i) fee income, (ii) examination fees, (iii) research and consultancy income, (iv) rents and charges and (v) grants, (c) miscellaneous expenditure, analysed by (i) income of youth and other educational services and (ii) other fees and charges and (d) research councils' expenditure, analysed by (i) charges for commissioned research and (ii) other.

§ Mrs. Rumbold
The handbooks of education unit costs published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy for each of the financial years 1982–83 to 1985–86 set out a full analysis of revenue income received by local education authorities in England, both by sector of the education service and by type of income, compiled from LEAs' returns to the Department of the Environment of revenue outturn. A handbook giving similar information for the 1986–87 financial year will be published soon. A detailed breakdown of LEA receipts406W beyond 1986–87 is not available. Details of research council receipts for the years 1982–83 to 1986–87 have been published in the annual appropriation accounts.

§ Mr. Worthington
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table bringing together on the same basis the totals for receipts on his programme in 1985–86 and 1986–87 implied by his answer of 15 July, Official Report, columns 373–74, with the corresponding totals in the answer of 27 May, Official Report, columns 375–76.

§ Mrs. Rumbold
The totals for receipts for 1985–86 and 1986–87 implied by my answer of 15 July at columns373–74, are, respectively, £1,077 million and £1,224 million; the comparable figures of £999 million and £1,144 million given in my right hon. Friend's answer on 27 May, at columns 375–76, incorporated part, but not all, of the relevant receipts accruing to the research councils.

	£ million
1982–83 outturn	1
1983–84 outturn	2
1984–85 outturn	2
1985–86 outturn	2
1986–87 outturn	1
1987–88 estimated outturn	1
1988–89 plans	1
1989–90 plans	1
1990–91 plans	1