§ Mr. WallTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much each of the local authorities in England and Wales spend on further education as a percentage of their total budget.
Mr. JacksonInformation in the form requested is not available. According to returns made to the Department of the Environment by local education authorities in England the percentage of the total net expenditure on Education spent on maintained establishments of further education other than polytechnics in 1987–88, the latest year for which actual expenditure is available, was as given in the table. The figures include the expenditure incurred on higher education within the other maintained establishments. Nationally, this represented some 20 per cent. of the total.
Figures for Wales are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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Net Expenditure on other Maintained Establishments of Further Education as a Percentage of Total Net Expenditure on Education Local Education Authority Percentage Barking 7.9 Barnet n/a Bexley 7.7 Brent 10.8 Bromley 10.7 Croydon 10.8 Ealing n/a Enfield 9.4 Haringey n/a Harrow 21.8 Havering 7.6 Hillingdon 4.4 Hounslow n/a Kingston-upon-Thames 11.1 Merton 12.1 Newham n/a Redbridge 4.1 Richmond-upon-Thames 21.4 Sutton 8.8 Waltham Forest 8.6 ILEA 12.1 147W
Local Education Authority Percentage Birmingham 8.0 Coventry 10.2 Dudley 14.6 Sandwell 13.8 Solihull 11.4 Walsall 7.8 Wolverhampton n/a Knowsley 6.3 Liverpool 10.3 St. Helens 12.9 Sefton 9.0 Wirral 12.0 Bolton 16.2 Bury 10.2 Manchester 11.9 Oldham 9.2 Rochdale 6.0 Salford n/a Stockport 10.9 Tameside 8.6 Trafford 12.2 Wigan 13.7 Barnsley 7.0 Doncaster 9.7 Rotherham 10.7 Sheffield n/a Bradford 12.1 Calderdale 6.2 Kirklees 9.5 Leeds 7.8 Wakefield 13.2 Gateshead 7.8 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 8.9 North Tyneside n/a South Tyneside 14.6 Sunderland 6.4 Avon 10.5 Bedfordshire 13.4 Berkshire n/a Buckinghamshire 10.4 Cambridgeshire 13.2 Cheshire 11.5 Cleveland 9.5 Cornwall 11.2 Cumbria 9.9 Derbyshire 8.6 Devon 12.6 Dorset 16.0 Durham 9.6 East Sussex 9.3 Essex 10.3 Gloucestershire 14.1 Hampshire 13.5 Hereford and Worcester 14.4 Hertfordshire 12.1 Humberside 12.7 Isle of Wight 10.3 Kent 9.0 Lancashire 11.7 Leicestershire 9.0 Lincolnshire 9.2 Norfolk 10.4 North Yorkshire 8.7 Northamptonshire 11.5 Northumberland 5.5 Nottinghamshire 8.6 Oxfordshire 9.9 Salop 9.6 Somerset 14.6 Staffordshire 9.4 Suffolk 9.7 Surrey 11.1 Warwickshire 12.6 West Sussex 9.8 Wiltshire 14.3 England Total 10.8
§ Mr. WallTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much was spent in England and Wales on further education in each year from 1979 to 1989.
Mr. JacksonThe information requested in respect of spending on further education, formerly non-advanced further education, in England, is set out in the table. The corresponding figures for Wales are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
Financial year Cash (net) £ million 1979–80 546 1980–81 688 1981–82 790 1982–83 878 1983–84 931 1984–85 998 1985–86 979 1986–87 1,054 1987–88 1,148 11988–89 1,225 1 Provisional outturn spending.
§ Mr. WallTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has on how many further education colleges in total and as a percentage of all further education colleges have(a) subsidised creche facilities for students, (b) free creche facilities for students, (c) no creche facilities for students, (d) subsidised meals for students, (e) sabbatical officers of student unions and (f) a student union office.
Mr. JacksonNo information is held centrally on the number of further education institutions providing creche facilities, subsidised meals or a student union office. Although we have no record of the total number of sabbatical officers, the DES survey of student unions suggested that it is unusual for mainstream further education colleges to have sabbatical officers.