HC Deb 18 January 1990 vol 165 cc331-4W
Mr. Nicholas Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list all local education authorities in England in rank order of expenditure per secondary pupil 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 1988 and 1989.

Mrs. Rumbold

The table gives the net institutional expenditure per secondary school pupil 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. Comparable information is not yet available for 1988–89.

Secondary schools in England: net institutional expenditure per pupil and examination achievements at GCSE1
Numbers of leavers with five or more GCSE results atgrades A to C4 5
Net expenditure per pupil (£ cash)2 3 As percentage of all school leavers Rank
Local education authorities
ILEA 2,610 16.1 88
Waltham Forest 2,345 11.3 95
Brent 2,195 19.1 75
Newham 1,880 14.3 93
Croydon 1,825 22.7 57
Manchester 1,785 15.9 90
Harrow 1,775 38.2 2
Barking 1,745 11.8 94
Knowsley 1,735 10.0 96
Liverpool 1,730 17.9 81
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1,725 17.4 84
Kingston-upon-Thames 1,720 34.2 5
Coventry 1,705 20.7 68
Barnet 1,675 41.5 1
Hillingdon 1,675 20.0 70
Hounslow 1,675 21.5 63
Wigan 1,675 29.4 15
Havering 1,670 23.3 53
North Tyneside 1,660 23.2 54
Rochdale 1,650 18.7 78
Bromley 1,645 32.0 9
Walsall 1,645 20.9 67
Sandwell 1,630 14.6 92
Salford 1,625 21.8 62
Bury 1,615 26.4 31
Redbridge 1,600 26.6 28
South Tyneside 1,585 18.3 79
Enfield 1,580 24.7 45
Wolverhampton 1,575 17.8 82
Dudley 1,570 22.3 61
Leicestershire 1,565 23.4 51
Gateshead 1,560 19.8 72
Oxfordshire 1,560 26.2 34
Cleveland 1,545 27.1 26
Nottinghamshire 1,540 21.6 59
Bexley 1,530 27.9 20
Derbyshire 1,530 22.5 60
Tameside 1,525 24.7 44
Trafford 1,525 31.1 10
Cumbria 1,510 26.9 27
St. Helens 1,505 23.3 52
Sunderland 1,505 18.8 77
Buckinghamshire 1,505 33.4 6
Stockport 1,500 24.9 43
Numbers of leavers with five or more GCSE results at grades A to C4 5
Net expenditure per pupil (£ cash)2 3 As percentage of all school leavers Rank
Doncaster 1,500 18.8 76
Wakefield 1,495 17.6 83
Birmingham 1,490 18.3 80
Hertfordshire 1,490 30.3 12
Wirral 1,480 25.9 39
Richmond-upon-Thames 1,475 29.6 14
Merton 1,470 23.5 49
Barnsley 1,470 17.0 87
Salop 1,470 27.7 22
Sefton 1,460 26.3 32
Humberside 1,460 21.5 64
Bedfordshire 1,455 26.0 38
Solihull 1,450 30.8 11
Lancashire 1,450 25.7 40
Rotherham 1,440 19.5 73
Calderdale 1,440 20.0 71
Avon 1,435 26.1 35
Bolton 1,425 26.1 37
Sutton 1,420 34.9 4
Essex 1,420 26.3 33
Staffordshire 1,420 23.4 50
Kirklees 1,415 25.1 42
Surrey 1,415 36.4 3
Bradford 1,410 16.1 89
Durham 1,405 21.0 66
Hampshire 1,405 27.7 21
Warwickshire 1,400 26.6 29
Oldham 1,395 15.5 91
Cheshire 1,390 28.3 19
Northumberland 1,390 29.8 13
East Sussex 1,385 27.4 23
Gloucestershire 1,385 29.1 17
Norfolk 1,385 22.8 55
Devon 1,380 24.4 47
North Yorkshire 1,375 32.8 7
Northamptonshire 1,375 22.7 58
Leeds 1,370 21.3 65
West Sussex 1,360 32.6 8
Somerset 1,355 24.5 46
Isle of Wight 1,350 17.0 86
Wiltshire 1,350 24.0 48
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 1,350 27.3 24
Hereford and Worcester 1,330 28.5 18
Dorset 1,320 27.2 25
Cambridgeshire 1,315 26.1 36
Suffolk 1,305 22.7 56
Kent 1,290 26.5 30
Lincolnshire 1,280 25.3 41
Ealing n/a 19.1 74
Haringey n/a 17.3 85
Sheffield n/a 20.2 69
Berkshire n/a 29.4 16
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. Data for four authorities are not available.
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 surveyis 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 O-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 O-level and CSE grade 1.

Mr. Nicholas Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the number of children sitting(a) GCSE and (b) A-level examinations in each local education authority in England as a percentage of the total number in the relevant year groups for 1988; and if he will list by each local education authority in England the number of children achieving (i) GCSE grades A to C, (ii) GCSE grades C to F and (iii) A-level grades A and E as a percentage of the total number of pupils in the relevant year in 1988 and 1989.

Mrs. Rumbold

The information is not readily available in the form requested. The table gives sampled examination results for school leavers, averaged over the academic years 1985–86, 1986–87 and 1987–88. The purpose of averaging is to reduce sampling error within the derived percentages. Comparable information is not yet available for 1988–89.

School leavers in England: aggregated examination attempts andgraded results for the academic years 1985–86, 1986–87 and 1987–88 Percentage of school leavers
Local education authorities One or more examination attempts One or more examination results
GCSE1 A-level2 GCSE grades A-C3 GCSE grades D-G4 A-level grades A-E
Barking 82.9 10.6 42.3 39.2 8.3
Barnet 92.0 33.8 66.6 24.9 30.7
Bexley 90.5 19.5 54.6 35.0 17.0
Brent 90.0 16.7 51.6 6.3 13.1
Bromley 93.7 23.0 59.1 34.2 20.3
Croydon 90.0 14.6 54.0 35.1 13.6
Ealing 88.8 15.1 48.6 36.2 12.9
Enfield 92.0 21.3 53.6 36.9 17.7
Haringey 86.1 14.4 46.3 37.8 12.4
Harrow 95.3 16.9 69.3 25.5 15.4
Havering 91.1 15.7 54.7 34.9 13.6
Hillingdon 92.9 15.7 54.0 38.5 13.3
Hounslow 87.3 16.4 50.9 34.2 13.1
Kingston-upon-Thames 91.3 23.2 61.1 29.5 20.1
Merton 86.0 15.2 51.2 34.5 13.9
Newham 81.0 11.8 47.2 30.8 9.0
Redbridge 89.1 21.8 53.1 34.2 19.7
Richmond-upon-Thames 92.8 0.2 61.1 30.7 0.0
Sutton 94.0 26.8 61.0 32.8 25.3
Waltham Forest 86.7 10.3 41.6 40.8 8.2
Birmingham 86.1 13.2 46.0 39.0 11.1
Coventry 90.3 14.9 50.2 39.4 12.1
Dudley 91.3 11.0 51.9 38.8 10.4
Sandwell 85.3 8.2 39.2 45.5 7.3
Solihull 96.9 21.4 60.5 36.1 19.7
Walsall 86.4 16.0 49.6 36.4 14.3
Wolverhampton 87.0 12.1 43.5 42.0 9.5
Knowsley 77.5 5.9 34.2 40.7 4.8
Liverpool 79.9 14.7 41.6 34.8 12.7
St. Helens 86.9 15.9 50.1 35.6 14.6
Sefton 90.6 19.8 55.6 33.5 17.4
Wirral 90.9 19.9 52.6 36.0 17.8
Bolton 90.8 17.0 55.9 34.1 15.2
Bury 92.0 15.1 60.7 30.0 14. 1
Manchester 80.4 15.9 44.0 33.2 13.8
Oldham 87.2 10.5 43.2 42.5 9.3
Rochdale 85.3 15.0 49.7 33.8 11.6
Salford 88.4 14.2 47.9 38.5 12.6
Stockport 92.2 19.7 58.9 30.7 16.8
Tameside 92.2 13.3 52.4 38.7 11.3
Trafford 95.9 17.5 62.0 31.6 16.4
Wigan 94.1 16.0 59.6 33.3 14.5
Barnsley 88.2 10.6 38.5 48.8 10.0
Doncaster 88.1 15.1 44.5 42.3 12.9
Rotherham 89.6 14.8 44.4 43.8 13.5
Sheffield 90.2 12.7 49.7 38.7 11.1
Bradford 83.6 12.6 42.5 39.2 10.6
Calderdale 89.9 16.0 46.6 41.1 12.9
Local education authorities One or more examination attempts One or more examination results
GCSE1 A-level2 GCSE grades A-C3 GCSE grades D-G4 A-level grades A-E
Kirklees 89.9 17.3 50.1 38.7 15.0
Leeds 89.0 13.6 48.7 39.2 12.5
Wakefield 87.0 8.5 44.6 41.4 6.9
Gateshead 84.2 13.1 45.2 38.0 10.8
Newcastle.upon-Tyne 84.5 13.4 41.8 41.5 10.8
North Tyneside 91.3 16.1 50.9 39.7 14.0
South Tyneside 93.6 11.8 45.9 47.0 10.0
Sunderland 91.3 10.1 47.7 43.5 8.1
ILEA 80.3 12.7 44.8 33.5 11.0
Avon 93.9 16.6 55.6 37.1 14.9
Bedfordshire 94.7 18.2 55.9 37.1 16.1
Berkshire 95.7 21.9 57.4 37.0 20.3
Buckinghamshire 94.1 23.7 63.7 29.5 22.4
Cambridgeshire 94.5 14.7 56.5 36.7 13.2
Cheshire 93.2 18.2 56.2 35.7 16.4
Cleveland 89.1 16.2 49.8 38.5 14.8
Cornwall 92.7 16.0 58.5 33.4 14.6
Cumbria 92.6 17.5 56.1 35.5 16.0
Derbyshire 92.9 12.9 50.7 41.1 11.3
Devon 95.3 12.8 55.5 38.5 11.8
Dorset 96.1 14.7 59.9 35.4 13.3
Durham 90.3 11.9 51.4 37.9 10.1
East Sussex 91.4 20.5 56.0 34.8 18.2
Essex 92.7 16.1 57.4 33.9 14.5
Gloucestershire 94.7 18.9 58.6 35.2 16.9
Hampshire 94.6 14.7 58.6 35.6 13.2
Hereford and Worcester 92.5 19.6 57.5 33.7 18.0
Hertfordshire 93.2 21.1 61.0 31.2 19.1
Humberside 90.3 14.4 48.4 40.8 12.9
Isle of Wight 92.8 15.7 47.4 43.0 13.4
Kent 92.7 18.4 53.9 38.2 16.9
Lancashire 90.6 10.9 54.0 35.0 9.9
Leicestershire 89.4 19.7 48.3 39.6 17.1
Lincolnshire 93.3 16.5 53.5 38.0 14.7
Norfolk 87.8 11.3 52.1 34.7 10.5
North Yorkshire 93.4 21.0 59.3 33.0 19.4
Northamptonshire 91.7 15.5 51.3 39.0 13.7
Northumberland 93.4 20.8 60.0 32.9 19.3
Nottinghamshire 92.4 14.3 46.1 45.5 12.7
Oxfordshire 94.8 17.4 57.7 36.1 15.4
Shropshire 92.8 17.2 56.5 35.9 15.3
Somerset 95.5 9.3 54.2 40.3 8.2
Staffordshire 89.4 14.0 51.9 36.8 12.7
Suffolk 93.3 15.6 51.3 40.2 14.0
Surrey 95.0 26.4 64.3 30.0 24.0
Warwickshire 93.1 18.6 56.8 35.8 16.9
West Sussex 95.4 22.0 62.8 32.0 20.2
Wiltshire 94.7 12.3 52.9 40.0 11.3
1 Including attempts at O-level and CSE.
2 Including a small number of leavers with no O-level or CSE attainments recorded.
3 Including O-level grades A-C and CSE grade 1.
4 Including O-level grades D-E and CSE grades 2–5.