§ Mr. NorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a table to show such information as he has to hand from the schemes of local management of schools submitted for his approval by education authorities under the headings(a) the value of the general schools budget; (b) the value of the mandatory exceptions; (c) the value of the aggregate schools budget; (d) (b) as a percentage of (a); and (e) (c) as a percentage of (a).
§ Mrs. Rumbold[pursuant to her reply, 8 January 1990, c. 485]The following information has been taken from the
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Local education authority Mandatory exceptions as percentage of general schools budget Total discretionary exceptions as percentage of general schools budget Aggregated schools budget as percentage of general schools budget Westminster 6.05 22.47 71.48 Barking 5.51 24.63 69.86 Barnet 10.58 21.02 68.40 Bexley 17.15 16.87 65.98 Brent 16.21 20.68 63.11 Bromley 15.86 19.30 64.84 Croydon 10.82 20.57 68.61 Ealing 6.45 20.03 73.52 Enfield 20.65 17.86 61.49 Haringey n/a n/a n/a Harrow 10.20 18.16 71.64 Havering 7.71 18.87 73.42 Hillingdon 20.43 20.67 58.90 Hounslow 14.98 22.40 62.62 Kingston 9.64 20.87 69.49 Merton 15.58 17.94 66.48 Newham 21.70 21.21 57.09 Redbridge 16.23 17.86 65.91 Richmond 11.12 20.57 68.31 Sutton 20.58 20.42 59.00 Waltham Forest 20.35 20.27 59.38 Birmingham 10.75 21.16 68.09 Coventry 19.75 21.37 58.88 Dudley 13.97 18.05 67.98 Sandwell 8.96 21.85 69.19 Solihull 14.75 20.37 64.88 Walsall 13.36 17.46 69.18 Wolverhampton 12.64 22.46 64.90 Knowsley 9.62 18.67 71.71 Liverpool 6.66 19.94 73.40 St. Helens 12.09 23.74 64.17 Sefton 7.79 15.62 76.59 Wirral 10.14 19.09 70.77 Bolton 10.99 18.13 70.88 Bury 11.21 20.60 68.19 Manchester 14.31 19.72 65.97 Oldham 12.67 23.04 64.29 Rochdale 14.80 19.24 65.96 Salford 14.15 19.95 65.90 Stockport 11.76 16.34 71.90 Tameside 10.53 20.92 68.55 Trafford 23.94 17.85 58.21 Wigan 7.01 17.50 75.49 Barnsley 7.03 24.46 68.51 Doncaster 5.78 24.48 69.74 Rotherham 8.59 19.15 72.26 Sheffield 11.95 22.76 65.29 Bradford 17.91 17.68 64.41 Calderdale 16.17 23.41 60.42 Kirklees 11.24 22.93 65.83 local management of schools scheme submissions made by local education authorities to my right hon. Friend. The table gives the percentage figures requested; it is not possible to provide comparative cash figures because the information has been supplied using a variety of price bases.
The full information requested by my hon. Friend, relating to 1990–91 budgets, will be available in the spring from statements published by all local education authorities with approved schemes under section 42 of the Education Reform Act.
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Local education authority Mandatory exceptions as percentage of general schools budget Total discretionary exceptions as percentage of general schools budget Aggregated schools budget as percentage of general schools budget Leeds 15.25 17.54 67.21 Wakefield 9.18 23.33 67.49 Gateshead 11.06 19.54 69.40 Newcastle 12.55 24.05 63.40 North Tyneside 9.32 21.80 68.88 South Tyneside 11.68 26.38 61.94 Sunderland 9.47 19.18 71.35 Isles of Scilly n/a n/a n/a Avon 10.91 23.49 65.60 Bedfordshire 15.86 16.58 67.56 Berkshire 14.77 16.98 68.25 Buckinghamshire 14.53 16.51 68.96 Cambridgeshire 13.69 22.18 64.13 Cheshire 8.54 21.02 70.44 Cleveland 9.46 20.35 70.19 Cornwall 12.57 21.87 65.56 Cumbria 11.58 27.13 61.29 Derbyshire 7.16 26.17 66.67 Devon 7.82 23.26 68.92 Dorset 10.13 22.74 67.13 Durham 8.19 22.90 68.91 East Sussex 9.74 23.44 66.82 Essex 11.10 17.93 70.97 Gloucestershire 9.81 20.88 69.31 Hampshire 16.33 16.07 67.60 Hereford and Worcester 12.58 19.87 67.55 Hertfordshire 9.49 23.25 67.26 Humberside 7.47 1972 72.81 Isle of Wight 13.33 22.37 64.30 Kent 9.47 16.62 73.91 Lancashire 11.81 20.93 67.26 Leicestershire 11.60 21.55 66.85 Lincolnshire 10.17 16.60 73.23 Norfolk 8.09 19.05 72.86 North Yorkshire 6.67 23.95 69.38 Northamptonshire 11.30 16.46 72.24 Northumberland 9.52 22.42 68.06 Nottinghamshire 7.97 22.97 69.06 Oxfordshire 8.73 19.70 71.57 Shropshire 9.05 19.94 71.01 Somerset 13.72 20.32 65.96 Staffordshire 11.09 22.35 66.56 Suffolk 14.91 18.82 66.27 Surrey 6.45 22.68 70.87 Warwickshire 5.55 21.95 72.50 West Sussex 11.77 13.26 74.97 Wiltshire 12.34 18.10 69.56 n/a = Not available.