§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will provide a table showing for(a) primary school pupils and (b) secondary school pupils levels of expenditure per child in education in Cheshire for each year since 1978–79 in (i) cash terms and (ii) constant price terms.
§ Mr. FallonThe available information is given in the table.
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Cheshire LEA—net institutional expenditure per pupil1 Year Nursery and Primary2schools Secondary schools cash terms (£) real terms3(£) cash terms (£) real terms3 (£) 1978–79 340 745 495 1,090 1979–80 400 755 580 1,090 1980–81 510 810 735 1,170 1981–82 580 840 815 1,185 1982–83 660 895 890 1,205 1983–84 665 865 940 1,220 1984–85 715 880 1,010 1,245 1985–86 760 890 1,090 1,275 1986–87 825 935 1,235 1,395 1987–88 900 965 1,410 1,515 1988–89 960 960 1,545 1,545
1 The figures are based on LEA expenditure returns to DOE and pupil number returns to DES. 2 Figures for nursery and primary schools were not collected separately from 1987–88. Figures for all years include nursery and primary schools. 3 The cash figures for earlier years have been repriced to 1988–89 prices using the Gross Domestic Product (Market Prices) Deflator.