§ Mr. HannamTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list, authority by authority, the total amount spent on the disabled student allowance.
Mr. JacksonThe information for the latest available year, 1987–88, is as follows. Local education authorities which awarded no disabled student allowances have been excluded from the table.
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Mandatory Awards: Disabled student allowance: 1987–88 Number of students Amount awarded1 London Boroughs Barnet 3 2,100 Bexley 2 1,400 Bromley 2 420 Croydon 2 980 Ealing 1 461 Havering 2 701 Hillingdon 1 700 Hounslow 2 544 Newham 2 869 Richmond-upon-Thames 3 1,394 Sutton 2 1,400 Waltham Forest 1 700 ILEA 17 10,325 Metropolitan Districts Birmingham 4 1,582 Coventry 2 700 Dudley 6 2,475 Sandwell 2 1,029 Wolverhampton 1 455 Liverpool 6 3,497 St. Helens 1 44 Sefton 6 1,706 Wirral 5 1,607 Bolton 2 425 Bury 4 2,295 Manchester 6 3,652 Rochdale 1 700 Salford 3 1,550 Stockport 1 700 Tameside 2 1,394 Wigan 1 700 Barnsley 1 545 Doncaster 4 734 Rotherham 2 663 Sheffield 8 2,986 Bradford 1 286 Calderdale 1 700 Kirklees 1 700 Leeds 8 3,890 Newcastle upon Tyne 1 700 South Tyneside 3 2,100 Sunderland 2 335 Shire Counties Avon 4 1,270 Berkshire 11 3,398 Buckinghamshire 4 1,635 Cambridgeshire 6 1,748 Cheshire 7 2,780 Cleveland 4 1,261 Cornwall 1 700 Cumbria 2 791 Derbyshire 10 4,200 Devon 9 3,860 Dorset 8 2,379 Durham 4 860 East Sussex 8 2,590 Gloucestershire 4 1,339 Hampshire 25 16,823 Hereford and Worcester 10 4,696
Number of students Amount awarded1 Hertfordshire 12 3,874 Humberside 1 491 Isle of Wight 1 450 Kent 12 3,930 Lancashire 13 5,625 Norfolk 4 1,125 North Yorkshire 9 3,185 Northamptonshire 2 560 Nottinghamshire 7 4,202 Oxfordshire 5 3,200 Shropshire 1 407 Staffordshire 6 1,050 Suffolk 4 1,055 Surrey 4 972 West Sussex 2 239 Wiltshire 12 4,588 Wales Clwyd 5 2,956 Dyfed 4 2,800 Gwent 5 1,700 Gwynedd 3 1,700 Mid-Glamorgan 5 1,443 West Glamorgan 4 1,560 England and Wales 363 157,586 1 For disabled students allowances.