HL Deb 28 January 1991 vol 525 cc19-22WA
Lord Northbourne

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What was the annual cost for the latest year for which figures are available, in resect of each education authority in England and Wales, for:

(1) The remuneration of teaching staff (both full-time and part-time);

(2) The remuneration of all other persons (both full-time and part-time) employed by the authority in its education department;

(3) The cost of contract services employed to carry out functions which would otherwise have been carried out by non-teaching staff.

Baroness Blatch

The available data are given in the table. They relate to 1988–89. Spending by local education authorities on contract services is not separately identified within spending returns.

England
1988–89 (£000's)
Local Authority Remuneration of teaching staff Remuneration of all other staff
Barking 40,963 15,468
Barnet 64,206 24,900
Bexley 36,350 9,540
Brent 54,334 18,519
Bromley 42,744 11,373
Croydon 55,401 16,568
Ealing 59,104 24,240
Enfield 46,068 15,207
Haringey n/a n/a
Harrow 35,808 11,873
Havering 42,240 12,395

Local Authority Remuneration of teaching staff Remuneration of all other staff
Hillingdon 36,502 13,211
Hounslow 40,473 11,790
Kingston-upon-Thames 36,620 15,234
Merton 27,320 5,619
Newham 50,416 17,760
Redbridge 33,880 10,529
Richmond-upon-Thames 23,688 7,630
Sutton 25,758 8,404
Waltham Forest 45,002 15,927
ILEA 541,202 301,163
Birmingham 203,535 60,954
Coventry 75,284 29,354
Dudley 57,945 13,490
Sandwell 61,996 18,275
Solihull 37,399 8,511
Walsall 56,458 19,168
Wolverhampton 65,513 21,143
Knowsley 32,726 10,637
Liverpool 114,097 39,255
St. Helens 37,771 6,663
Sefton 47,256 13,939
Wirral 60,715 16,385
Bolton 54,140 15,253
Bury 31,573 8,640
Manchester n/a n/a
Oldham 42,300 12,681
Rochdale 41,469 7,070
Salford 48,347 15,285
Stockport 49,573 13,478
Tameside 39,938 11,826
Trafford 34,396 8,552
Wigan 66,523 15,785
Barnsley 37,741 11,422
Doncaster 55,383 18,165
Rotherham 50,125 13,024
Sheffield 113,243 44,617
Bradford 102,950 31,179
Calderdale 36,277 10,883
Kirklees 83,216 26,979
Leeds 150,175 41,295
Wakefield n/a n/a
Gateshead 35,227 10,047
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 65,527 26,625
North Tyneside 37,433 10,129
South Tyneside 33,642 9,760
Sunderland 63,958 19,851
Isles of Scilly 416 87
Avon 165,289 48,521
Bedfordshire 99,837 27,088
Berkshire 127,801 28,561
Buckinghamshire 102,758 27,778
Cambridgeshire 110,190 28,548
Cheshire 167,621 47,143
Cleveland 119,631 38,506
Cornwall 71,456 18,996
Cumbria 86,597 24,377
Derbyshire 168,118 53,815
Devon 159,888 36,760
Dorset 94,887 24,485
Durham 102,744 28,899
East Sussex 103,871 31,135
Essex 250,114 65,240
Gloucestershire 86,966 20,248
Hampshire 266,232 72,431
Hereford and Worcester 111,732 20,408
Hertfordshire 195,448 54,631
Humberside 164,408 46,125
Isle of Wight 19,522 5,649
Kent 235,856 50,566
Lancashire 255,840 72,603
Leicestershire 178,131 51,160
Lincolnshire 89,149 18,321
Norfolk 113,759 28,024
North Yorkshire 111,060 27,858
Northamptonshire 108,340 26,472
Northumberland 52,818 14,998
Nottinghamshire 196,446 64,691

Local Authority Remuneration of teaching staff Remuneration of all other staff
Oxfordshire 98,994 27,344
Shropshire 71,461 17,505
Somerset 74,251 21,180
Staffordshire 188,307 51,092
Suffolk 97,280 23,942
Surrey 144,417 39,446
Warwickshire 85,133 21,242
West Sussex 97,852 22,438
Wiltshire 93,084 18,005
England totals 8,529,634 2,553,998

Wales
Local authority Remuneration of teaching staff Remuneration of all other staff
Clwyd 76,334 22,072
Dyfed 63,638 15,609
Gwent 81,996 25,493
Gwynedd 42,429 10,575
Mid Glamorgan 110,063 34,219
Powys 22,233 4,529

Local authority Remuneration of teaching staff Remuneration of all other staff
South Glamorgan 74,290 17,320
West Glamorgan 72,448 19,139
WALES TOTAL 543,431 148,956

Notes:

1. The data are taken from the annual recurrent spending returns from local authorities to the Department of the Environment/Welsh Office; 1988–89 is the latest available year for such data. Returns were not received from three authorities; the totals have not been grossed up to take account of them.

2. The data on the remuneration of teaching staff cover all employees in all sectors of local authority education who are paid within the scope of the Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act 1987, and all lecturers in local-authority-funded further and higher education. They relate to gross pay, including National Insurance and superannuation contributions.

3. The data on the remuneration of other staff are aggregated from relevant staff lines within spending returns. They include education support staff such as nursery assistants and laboratory technicians; premises related staff such as caretakers and cleaners; administrative and clerical staff; kitchen and canteen staff; and other staff such as youth and community leaders and midday supervisory assistants. Again they relate to gross pay and cover all sectors of local authority education. They exclude some staff costs in areas where those costs cannot be identified separately from non-staff costs—e.g. the salaries and wages of building maintenance staff within total spending on the repair and maintenance of buildings.