§ Mr. ButterfillTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a table showing the proportion of total education spending which is spent on the provision of central services in respect of each local education authority in England and Wales.
§ Mr. FallonThe latest available information for England relates to LEA spending on central services for schools which are categorised as discretionary excepted items under local management of schools. The eighty-seven LEAs that introduced local management of schools in April 1990 have published budget statements for 1990–91 which show how much of the potential schools budget is withheld from schools to be spent on discretionary excepted items. The figure for each LEA is given in the table. Comparable information is not available for the FE or other education sectors. Information about Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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1990–91 Budgets Percentage of potential schools budget spent on discretionary excepted items Local education authority Discretionary exceptions as percentage of potential schools budget Westminster 22.02 Kingston upon Thames 21.54 Haringey 20.64 Waltham Forest 20.35 Newcastle upon Tyne 20.25 Merton 20.21 Richmond upon Thames 20.02 Bromley 19.30 Cambridgeshire 19.25 Coventry 19.07 Bexley 18.67 Oxfordshire 18.63 Enfield 18.50 Harrow 18.48 Hounslow 18.41 Oldham 18.36 Ealing 18.34 Humberside 18.29 Wolverhampton 18.23 Dorset 18.15 Calderdale 18.14 Knowsley 18.09 Bury 18.08 Avon 17.70 North Tyneside 17.70 Wiltshire 17.65 Isle of Wight 17.52 Cumbria 17.47 Sheffield 17.39 North Yorkshire 17.38 Lancashire 17.34 Redbridge 17.29 Nottinghamshire 17.28 Wakefield 17.13 Somerset 17.09 Birmingham 16.96 Devon 16.89 Durham 16.87 Sandwell 16.76 St. Helens 16.73 Wigan 16.72 Gateshead 16.71 Derbyshire 16.63 Barnsley 16.62 Kirklees 16.62 Sutton 16.56
Local education authority Discretionary exceptions as percentage of potential schools budget Cornwall 16.43 Norfolk 16.38 Brent 16.37 Cleveland 16.37 South Tyneside 16.24 Havering 16.13 Dudley 16.02 Bedfordshire 15.98 Essex 15.97 East Sussex 15.91 Cheshire 15.69 Barnet 15.64 Salford 15.63 Trafford 15.62 Tameside 15.60 Shropshire 15.40 Staffordshire 15.39 Northamptonshire 15.26 Kent 15.13 Buckinghamshire 15.12 Liverpool 15.09 Lincolnshire 14.87 Warwickshire 14.76 Solihull 14.69 Doncaster 14.55 Surrey 14.43 Suffolk 14.34 Walsall 14.28 Rochdale 14.26 Hampshire 14.22 Bradford 13.96 Leeds 13.88 Rotherham 13.87 Northumberland 13.46 Gloucestershire 13.22 Sunderland 13.14 Barking and Dagenham 12.99 Sefton 12.56 West Sussex 12.51 Berkshire 12.32 Bolton 10.90