HC Deb 08 February 1990 vol 166 cc747-8W
Mr. Oppenheim

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list all shire counties in England in rank order of expenditure per secondary pupil

Secondary schools in shire counties in England: Net institutional expenditure per pupil and examination achievements at GCSE1
Net expenditure per pupil (£cash)23 Numbers of leavers with five or more GCSE results at grades A to C45
As a per cent. of all school leavers Rank
Shire County
Leicestershire 1,565 23.4 30
Oxfordshire 1,560 26.2 21
Cleveland 1,545 27.1 16
Nottinghamshire 1,540 21.6 36
Derbyshire 1,530 22.5 35
Cumbria 1,510 26.9 17
Buckinghamshire 1,505 33.4 2
Hertfordshire 1,490 30.3 5
Shropshire 1,470 27.7 11
Humberside 1,460 21.5 37
Bedfordshire 1,455 26.0 24
Lancashire 1,450 25.7 25
Avon 1,435 26.1 22
Essex 1,420 26.3 20
Staffordshire 1,420 23.4 31
Surrey 1,415 36.4 1
Durham 1,405 21.0 38
Hampshire 1,405 27.7 12
Warwickshire 1,400 26.6 18
Cheshire 1,390 28.3 10
Northumberland 1,390 29.8 6
East Sussex 1,385 27.4 13
Gloucestershire 1,385 29.1 8
Norfolk 1,385 22.8 32
Devon 1,380 24.4 28
North Yorkshire 1,375 32.8 3
Northamptonshire 1,375 22.7 34
West Sussex 1,360 32.6 4
Somerset 1,355 24.5 27
Isle of Wight 1,350 17.0 39
Wiltshire 1,350 24.0 29
Cornwall and Scilly Isles 1,350 27.3 14
Hereford and Worcester 1,330 28.5 9
Dorset 1,320 27.2 15
Cambridgeshire 1,315 26.1 23
Suffolk 1,305 22.7 33
Kent 1,290 26.5 19
Lincolnshire 1,280 25.3 26
Berkshire n/a 29.4 7
1 The figures in the table have not been adjusted to take account of variations in LEA's socio-economic circumstances
2 Net institutional expenditure includes the cost of salaries and wages, premises, and certain supplies and services; It does not include the cost of school meals, central administration and inspection, debt charges or revenue contributions to capital outlay
3 The unit spending figures are based on LEA expenditure returns to the Department of the Environment for the financial year 1987–88, and pupil number returns to DES
4 The examination data are aggregated from the results of a sample survey for the academic years 1985–86, 1986–87 and 1987–88. The survey is based on a 10 per cent. sample of pupils in maintained and independent schools (excluding special schools) who have reached the minimum school leaving age. The percentages quoted do not reflect the achievements of pupils at 0-level, CSE or GCSE after leaving school; nor their attainments in examinations leading to vocational or other qualifications at school or elsewhere.
5 Includes grades A-C at 0-level and CSE grade 1.

per year, starting with the highest spending authority, together with their position in the table of examination results for school leavers achieving grades A to C at GCSE in the latest year for which figures are available.

Mr. Alan Howarth

The table gives the net institutional expenditure per secondary school pupil in shire counties in England in the financial year 1987–88, and averaged examination results for the three years 1985–86 to 1987–88. The purpose of averaging is to reduce sampling error within the derived percentages.