HC Deb 07 February 1990 vol 166 cc666-7W
Mr. Janner

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to how much each local education authority in England and Wales has allocated for discretionary grants to students undertaking full-time and sandwich further education courses for each of the last five years.

Mr. Jackson

The available data is listed in the table.

Discretionary awards made under section 2 of the 1962 Education Act for further education courses at polytechnics and colleges.
1986–87 £000s 1987–88 £000s
Barking1 217.0 238.1
Barnet 203.3 191.5
Bexley 345.9 240.1
Brent 2,869.2 2,675.6
Bromley1 106.3 173.5
Croydon 251.6 315.2
Ealing1 220.6 297.3
Enfield1 239.6 321.8
Haringey1 346.1 326.5
Harrow 74.3 47.6
Havering1 183.1 256.1
Hillingdon 367.1 297.0
Hounslow 188.4 127.2
Kingston upon Thames 35.7 33.0
Merton1 119.5 55.6
Newham 329.4 386.5
Redbridge 43.2 68.2
Richmond upon Thames1 55.9 43.6
Sutton 152.0 186.2
Waltham Forest 407.6 535.2
Inner London1 1,498.7 1,854.0
Birmingham1 399.0 444.5
Coventry 314.4 360.6
Dudley 201.4 335.1
Sandwell1 201.7 385.6
Solihull1 4.7 3.4
Walsall 625.5 553.4
Wolverhampton 0.0 0.0
Knowsley 1,079.1 1,265.5
Liverpool1 1,886.4 2,158.1
St.Helens1 439.6 476.6
Sefton1 105.4 98.2
Wirral1 223.3 1,169.4
Bolton 779.0 750.9
Bury1 425.8 560.6
Manchester1 1,346.1 1,393.1
Oldham 338.3 343.2
Rochdale 293.7 267.9
Salford1 407.0 419.0
Stockport1 358.0 370.3
Tameside1 193.8 187.0
Trafford 208.5 176.4
Wigan1 655.0 595.6
Barnsley 508.4 716.0
Doncaster1 132.1 400.2
Rotherham 452.1 587.8
Sheffield2 1,139.6 1,383.7
Bradford 1,306.5 2,068.4
Calderdale 123.5 210.1
Kirklees1 877.2 944.4
Leeds 984.8 1,584.6

1986–87 1987–88
£000s £000s
Wakefield 595.5 758.6
Gateshead 1 163.1 180.2
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1 300.6 368.6
North Tyneside 1 585.8 730.8
South Tyneside 1 170.5 223.8
Sunderland 1,024.0 909.7
Isles of Scilly 1 73.6 82.9
Avon 1 1,330.3 1,375.4
Bedfordshire 742.8 1,155.1
Berkshire 1 120.8 610.2
Buckinghamshire 1 159.8 261.2
Cambridgeshire 434.9 511.6
Cheshire 2,337.7 2,491.6
Cleveland 640.3 701.6
Cornwall 1,082.2 921.1
Cumbria 1 594.6 2,068.3
Derbyshire 1 2,186.2 2,048.9
Devon 2,874.9 2,662.0
Dorset 1,192.2 1,305.1
Durham 1 500.2 403.7
East Sussex 874.4 840.4
Essex 3,439.7 3,237.4
Gloucestershire 1,685.7 1,466.0
Hampshire 1 3,737.6 3,917.8
Hereford and Worcester 0.0 0.0
Hertfordshire 319.2 369.2
Humberside 1,761.3 1,968.5
Isle of Wight 171.2 199.4
Kent 4,073.4 3,610.2
Lancashire 3,026.5 2,862.8
Leicestershire 2,887.5 3,310.3
Lincolnshire 1,329.3 1,337.5
Norfolk 1 825.0 811.7
North Yorkshire 3,675.3 4,234.9
Northamptonshire 253.1 216.1
Northumberland 1 988.6 970.0
Nottinghamshire 1 1,499.1 1,749.8
Oxfordshire 553.5 384.2
Shropshire 429.4 703.2
Somerset 463.2 703.2
Staffordshire 1 350.5 862.1
Suffolk 1,294.4 1,378.0
Surrey 1 473.7 559.5
Warwickshire 390.5 775.8
West Sussex 1 307.5 299.4
Wiltshire 973.7 1,012.1
Clwyd 966.8 1,049.3
Dyfed 1 1,002.7 879.7
Gwent 1,530.4 1,543.5
Gwynedd 1 790.6 803.2
Mid-Glamorgan 1 160.5 96.7
Powys 473.5 455.8
South Glamorgan 403.6 428.7
West Glamorgan 1 111.8 76.2
England and Wales 82,597.4 91,762.5
1 Some authorities are unable to distinguish awards made to all students attending courses of further education, and include some such payments in their returns for higher education. The figures given here are therefore under-estimates of the total amounts.