§ Mr. Ian TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the cost of educating a secondary school pupil in(a) Surrey, (b) Kingston and (c) Sutton; what is the inter-authority recoupment payment between those authorities in respect of secondary pupils; and what provision is made to ensure that a school enjoys the full benefit of inter-authority recoupment payments which are made in respect of out-county pupils.
§ Mr. FallonIn 1988–89, the latest year for which data are available, the school-based spending per secondary school pupil was £1,635 in Surrey, £1,905 in Kingston-upon-Thames and £1,630 in Sutton. Inter-authority recoupment rates are determined by local authorities and information on actual payments between individual authorities is not collected centrally. However, the inter-authority recoupment rates recommended by local authority associations for secondary school pupils in 1988–89 were £1,982 per pupil aged under 16 and £3,064 per pupil aged over 16 educated in the outer London area, which includes Kingston-upon-Thames and Sutton; and £1,889 per pupil under 16 and £2,920 per pupil over 16 educated in the London fringe area, which includes Surrey. These payments are to cover both school-based and central local education authority spending. Under 145W authorities' schemes for the local management of schools, a school receives the same funding for all pupils of the same age—with a different weighting for different subjects in sixth forms under some authorities' schemes—whether such pupils are the financial responsibility of the providing or a different authority.