HC Deb 21 June 1989 vol 155 cc143-5W
Mr. Wall

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much each of the local authorities in England and Wales spend on discretionary awards as a total and as a percentage of their total budget; and what is the maximum and minimum awards given by them.

Mr. Jackson

The table shows provisional outturn figures for the total amount spent on discretionary awards by each local education authority in England in 1987–88; and for the percentage this represents of their total net expenditure on education in each case where the latter figure is available. Policy for discretionary awards including the amount of support which should be given in each case is for each local authority to determine in the light of its own priorities and information about the value of individual awards is not collected centrally. Expenditure on education by local authorities in Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

Local education authority Total expenditure on discretionary awards
(i) (ii)
(£000's) As per cent. of total net expenditure on education
Barking 163 0.26
Barnet 561 n.a.
Bexley 264 0.44

Local education authority Total expenditure on discretionary awards
(i) (ii)
(£000's) As per cent. of total net expenditure on education
Brent 3,342 3.31
Bromley 613 0.90
Croydon 355 0.42
Ealing 805 n.a.
Enfield 110 0.16
Haringey 385 n.a.
Harrow 237 0.43
Havering 192 0.30
Hillingdon 194 0.33
Hounslow 200 n.a.
Kingston-upon-Thames 155 0.28
Merton 179 0.44
Newham 389 n.a.
Redbridge 297 0.54
Richmond-upon-Thames 348 1.06
Sutton 97 0.25
Waltham Forest 591 0.79
ILEA 20,156 1.89
Birmingham 852 0.28
Coventry 350 0.31
Dudley 226 0.28
Sandwell 399 0.43
Solihull 212 0.41
Walsall 276 0.32
Wolverhampton 211 n.a.
Knowsley 19 0.03
Liverpool 30 0.02
St. Helens 128 0.22
Sefton 357 0.49
Wirral 1,051 1.15
Bolton 325 0.49
Bury 380 0.77
Manchester 878 0.45
Oldham 227 0.37
Rochdale 222 0.35
Salford 212 n.a.
Stockport 378 0.51
Tameside 201 0.33
Trafford 425 0.80
Wigan 385 0.40
Barnsley 578 0.99
Doncaster 503 0.58
Rotherham 193 0.26
Sheffield 1,016 n.a.
Bradford 1,777 1.15
Calderdale 394 0.73
Kirklees 1,023 0.77
Leeds 1,124 0.52
Wakefield 720 0.79
Gateshead 129 0.24
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 352 0.34
North Tyneside 235 n.a.
South Tyneside 5 0.01
Sunderland 798 0.83
Isles of Scilly 2 0.29
Avon 1,905 0.74
Bedfordshire 883 0.57
Berkshire 1,164 n.a.
Buckinghamshire 776 0.44
Cambridgeshire 1,159 0.69
Cheshire 3,349 1.26
Cleveland 1,216 0.63
Cornwall 390 0.35
Cumbria 1,558 1.13
Derbyshire 538 0.20
Devon 3,896 1.58
Dorset 1,479 1.04
Durham 381 0.24
East Sussex 725 0.46
Essex 2,251 0.57
Gloucestershire 2,182 1.67
Hampshire 4,586 1.16
Hereford and Worcester 1,007 0.62

Local education authority Total expenditure on discretionary awards
(i) (ii)
(£000's) As per cent, of total net expenditure on education
Hertfordshire 1,442 0.53
Humberside 2,500 0.97
Isle of Wight 330 1.08
Kent 3,702 1.06
Lancashire 2,547 0.65
Leicestershire 3,463 1.32
Lincolnshire 1,388 1.01
Norfolk 988 0.58
North Yorkshire 3,341 1.96
Northamptonshire 845 0.53
Northumberland 400 0.49
Nottinghamshire 1,305 0.43
Oxfordshire 957 0.65
Salop 1,202 1.12
Somerset 546 0.48
Staffordshire 1,232 0.43
Suffolk 1,818 1.20
Surrey 1,126 0.51
Warwickshire 1,125 0.90
West Sussex 364 0.26
Wiltshire 1,094 0.78