§ Mr. TippingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will set out by local education authority(a) the actual spending on further education and sixth-form colleges for the financial year 1991–92, (b) the planned spending on further education and sixth-form colleges for the financial year 1992–93, (c) the standard spending assessment—SSA—for further education and sixth-form colleges for the financial year 1992–93 and (d) the amount deducted from the standard spending assessment for further education and sixth-form colleges for the financial year 1993–94.
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§ Mr. FormanInformation about(a) is not yet available. In respect of (b), the Government have calculated for each local education authority a further education adjustment for the purposes of proposing a relevant notional amount. These proposed adjustments are set out in the table. So far as (c) is concerned, authorities' SSAs for 1992–93 do not identify an element for further education and sixth-form colleges. As for (d), there has been no deduction from 1993–94 SSAs for further education and sixth-form colleges. The 1993–94 education standard spending total from which the education component of SSAs is derived covers only those functions for which LEAs will be responsible from 1 April 1993.
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4 December 1992 Page 1 The further education adjustment used in calculation of provisional relevant notional amounts Local authority Provisional further education adjustment (£ million) Greater London City of London 4.151 Camden 11.056 Greenwich 9.355 Hackney 13.172 Hammersmith and Fulham 8.250 Islington 9.668 Kensington and Chelsea 9.167 Lambeth 16.146 Lewisham 14.894 Southwark 11.976 Tower Hamlets 12.197 Wandsworth 19.490 Westminster 10.385 Barking and Dagenham 6.404 Barnet 13.040 Bexley 6.330 Brent 22.839 Bromley 7.841 Croydon 18.535 Ealing 11.495 Enfield 13.341 Haringey 11.439 Harrow 13.652 Havering 10.139 Hillingdon 7.916 Hounslow 5.320 Kingston upon Thames 5.420 Merton 8.924 Newham 21.298 Redbridge 6.304 Richmond upon Thames 8.383 Sutton 4.485 Waltham Forest 12.858 Greater Manchester Bolton 11.266 Bury 11.460 Manchester 26.563 Oldham 15.585 Rochdale 10.408 Salford 10.872 Stockport 16.799 Tameside 3.767 Trafford 9.432 Wigan 20.491 Merseyside Knowsley 4.669 Liverpool 19.450 Sefton 10.284 St. Helens 12.362 Wirral 12.989 South Yorkshire Barnsley 9.738 Doncaster 11.712
Local authority Provisional further education adjustment (£ million) Rotherham 12.146 Sheffield 23.306 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 6.067 Newcastle upon Tyne 6.854 North Tyneside 7.273 South Tyneside 8.894 Sunderland 14.436 West Midlands Birmingham 57.798 Coventry 14.501 Dudley 14.905 Sandwell 16.748 Solihull 9.482 Walsall 10.092 Wolverhampton 14.094 West Yorkshire Bradford 20.815 Calderdale 10.460 Kirklees 21.005 Leeds 31.971 Wakefield 18.657 Shire counties Avon 33.404 Bedfordshire 20.719 Berkshire 29.402 Buckinghamshire 23.327 Cambridgeshire 32.716 Cheshire 52.790 Cleveland 37.034 Cornwall 21.790 Cumbria 17.671 Derbyshire 41.562 Devon 41.651 Dorset 22.698 Durham 24.633 East Sussex 33.034 Essex 63.777 Gloucestershire 24.388 Hampshire 97.094 Hereford and Worcester 33.482 Hertfordshire 40.943 Humberside 41.290 Isle of Wight 5.003 Kent 54.536 Lancashire 78.502 Leicestershire 37.585 Lincolnshire 27.457 Norfolk 27.622 Northamptonshire 24.714 Northumberland 7.929 North Yorkshire 31.097 Nottinghamshire 50.874 Oxfordshire 22.216 Shropshire 25.451 Somerset 25.847 Staffordshire 51.848 Suffolk 24.655 Surrey 52.294 Warwickshire 25.815 West Sussex 31.117 Wiltshire 23.432 Isles of Scilly 0.274
§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what spending per student in further education colleges was in 1990–91, 1991–92 and 1992–93, in cash terms and in a real-terms index with 1979–80 as the base year.
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§ Mr. FormanExpenditure per student in further education colleges for financial years 1979–80, 1989–90 and 1990–91, the latest year available, are shown in the table.
Financial years 1979–80 1989–90 1990–91 Expenditure per student (fte) Cash terms (£) 1,540 2,780 2,920 Real terms index1 100 90 88 1 The real terms index has been calculated using the current Gross Domestic Product Deflators.
§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what part of the provision to be made available to the Further Education Funding Council is directly related to student numbers in both cash terms and as a percentage in 1993–94, 1994–95 and 1995–96; and on what assumptions this figure is calculated.
§ Mr. FormanIn order to encourage efficiency in the achievement of increased student numbers, part of the provision to be made available to the Further Education Funding Council will be directly related to actual student numbers and will be paid from a non cash-limited vote. This element of funding will be introduced in the academic year 1993–94 and will be limited initially to full-time students. The total amount to be made available in this element will be the product of the actual number of full-time students and a rate per student of £750 a year. The rate per student and the scope of funding in later years will be subject to review.
§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what part of the proposed expenditure total for further education in 1993–94 is assumed to be spending per student in both cash terms and in a real terms index with 1979–80 as the base year; and what are the figures for 1994–95 and 1995–96.
§ Mr. FormanThe total funding made available to the Further Education Funding Council—FEFC—in 1993–94, 1994–95 and 1995–96 for recurrent expenditure is planned to be £2,550 million, £2,734 million and £2,944 million respectively. The FEFC has announced that from the 1993–94 total it intends to make available to colleges £2,507 million. On the basis of the Government's projection of 970,000 full-time equivalent students for whom provision will be made by the FEFC in 1993–94, the level of support per student would be some £2,600
Figures for 1979–80 are not available on a comparable basis.
§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Education pursuant to his answer of 16 November,Official Report, column 42, what assumptions and information about the current level of fundings by local education authorities of courses for which the Further Education Funding Council will be responsible from 1993 were made on deciding the level of funds to be made available to the Further Education Funding Council in 1993–94.
§ Mr. FormanIn reaching a notional apportionment of local education authorities' spending on education in 1992–93, the Government assumed that their recurrent spending in that year on activities which from 1993–94 would be the responsibility of the Further Education Funding Council would appropriately be £2,341 million. This assumption took account of the latest available 565W expenditure data and student, pupil, lecturer and teacher numbers. It also took account of the findings of a special survey of LEA spending on further education.