HC Deb 13 June 1988 vol 135 cc9-10W
Mr. Gordon Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the average expenditure per pupil in local authority schools on(a) books, (b) scientific equipment, (c) computers, (d) sports facilities, (e) school meals and milk, (f) teachers, (g) in-service teachers training and (h) school buildings, at constant and current prices, for each year since 1979.

Mr. Dunn

[holding answer 10 June 1988]: The available information is set out in the following table:

1 Provisional.

Notes:

1 Figures for 1985–86 converted from outturn prices to 1986–87 prices using gross domestic product market prices deflator.

2 Source of information—Department of Environment capital outturn forms CO1.