Primary and Secondary Schools (Expenditure)

HC Deb 17 March 1988 vol 129 cc635-6W

Mr. McLoughlin

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will show the amount spent per pupil on education in(a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in the counties of Staffordshire and Derbyshire.

Mr. Dunn

The latest information is provided in the table.

Net institutional recurrent expenditure1 per pupil—1986–87
	Primary Schools £	Secondary Schools £
Staffordshire	878	1,257
Derbyshire	877	1,304
Note:
1 Net institutional recurrent expenditure covers the cost of salaries

and wages, premises and certain supplies and services. It does not include the cost of school meals, central administration and inspection, debt charges or revenue contributions to capital outlay.