HL Deb 25 July 1991 vol 531 cc81-3WA
Baroness David

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will provide the following figures for expenditure on books in colleges of further education in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales respectively, in 1989/90:

  1. (a) total spending per local authority on all books;
  2. (b) total spending on all books;
  3. (c) total spending per local authority on library books;
  4. (d) total spending on library books;
  5. (e) average spending per capita (full time equivalent student) on all books;
  6. (f) average spending per capita (full time equivalent student) on library books;
  7. (g) average spending per capita (full time equivalent student) per local authority on all books;
  8. (h) average spending per capita (full time equivalent student) per local authority on library books.

Baroness Blatch

The available information on local education authorities' spending and per capita spending on books and educational equipment in colleges of higher and further education and tertiary colleges is shown in the table. Information relating only to further education colleges is not readily available. Separate information on library books is not collected centrally, and the table shows combined figures in respect of books and equipment because not all local authorities' returns to government departments give separate figures for books and for educational equipment. Information for England is not yet available, and for Northern Ireland is not collected centrally.

Expenditure on text and library books and educational equipment in local education authorities' colleges of higher and further education and tertiary colleges, 1989–90
Expenditure Expenditure per full time equivalent student
£'000s £s
Local education authority
Scotland
Borders 8 10
Central 1,029 405
Dumfries and Galloway 463 369
Fife 800 160
Grampian n/a n/a
Highland 497 234
Lothian 2,319 268
Strathclyde 4,987 197
Tayside 1,539 256
Orkney n/a n/a
Shetland 51 477
Western Isles 36 81
Scotland 11,729 224
Wales
Clwyd 1,101 158
Dyfed 1,273 335

Expenditure Expenditure per full time equivalent student
£'000s £s
Gwent 1,336 172
Gwynedd 1,100 387
Mid Glamorgan1 3,394 323
Powys 244 192
South Glamorgan 1,693 240
West Glamorgan 2,147 269
Wales 12,288 255
1 Including Polytechnic of Wales.
n/a indicates information is not available.