§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will state the allocation among local education authorities of the extra funding for teachers' pay which was recently announced;
(2) what is the projected cost of the teachers' pay award in each local education authority; and what is the cost above the standard cost uplift implied by the revenue support grant settlement.
§ Mr. FallonThe Government's proposal to implement the recommendations of the school teachers review body will add an estimated 7.8 per cent. to the teachers' pay bill of local education authorities in England and Wales in 1992–93. The pay bill of LEAs in inner and outer London and some authorities in the south-east will go up by slightly more than the average because of the additional cost of the review body's recommendations on non-discretionary London allowances. In order to help local authorities to cover the cost of the award the Government propose to pay additional grant to authorities in England and Wales totalling £60 million. The £60 million broadly represents the difference between the cost of an award consistent with the overall uplift in education standard spending allowed in the 1992–93 RSG settlements for England and Wales—7.2 per cent.—and the actual cost of the award—7.8 per cent. England's share of the £60 million is £56.5 million. The Government propose that, subject to the House of Commons approval, the additional grant in England should be distributed to local education authorities on the basis of the schools elements of their standard spending assessments. Illustrative allocations to individual LEAs on this basis are set out in the following table. Distribution of the Welsh share of £3.5 million is a matter for the Secretary of State for Wales.
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Table showing the distribution of additional grant for each local education authority in England in £s Local authority Additional grant GREATER LONDON City of London 734 Camden 191,824 Greenwich 340,194 Hackney 344,129 Hammersmith and Fulham 166,063 Islington 255,946 Kensington and Chelsea 106,766 Lambeth 400,767 Lewisham 344,808 Southwark 337,366 Tower Hamlets 388,635 41W
Local authority Additional grant Wandsworth 283,150 Westminster 152,476 Barking and Dagenham 196,396 Barnet 345,836 Bexley 275,540 Brent 394,356 Bromley 302,405 Croydon 383,654 Ealing 391,396 Enfield 350,949 Haringey 304,639 Harrow 227,177 Havering 279,549 Hillingdon 274,867 Hounslow 279,894 Kingston upon Thames 140,044 Merton 177,791 Newham 405,011 Redbridge 287,167 Richmond upon Thames 120,937 Sutton 192,471 Waltham Forest 321,977 Greater Manchester Bolton 332,815 Bury 187,135 Manchester 624,614 Oldham 297,607 Rochdale 265,175 Salford 267,431 Stockport 307,183 Tameside 263,627 Trafford 238,630 Wigan 351,479 Merseyside Knowsley 243,683 Liverpool 667,301 Sefton 336,079 St. Helens 224,426 Wirral 428,119 South Yorkshire Barnsley 241,839 Doncaster 380,746 Rotherham 320,063 Sheffield 527,881 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 230,089 Newcastle upon Tyne 309,228 North Tyneside 231,081 South Tyneside 178,571 Sunderland 360,732 West Midlands Birmingham 1,519,457 Coventry 378,100 Dudley 324,641 Sandwell 379,363 Solihull 224,404 Walsall 336,406 Wolverhampton 340,690 West Yorkshire Bradford 716,003 Calderdale 242,797 Kirklees 486,771 Leeds 811,248 Wakefield 354,339 All Purpose Authority Isles of Scilly 4,169
Local authority Additional grant Shire Counties Avon 974,079 Bedfordshire 703,722 Berkshire 886,505 Buckinghamshire 818,998 Cambridgeshire 755,620 Cheshire 1,113,732 Cleveland 792,026 Cornwall 530,969 Cumbria 547,589 Derbyshire 1,007,005 Devon 1,043,418 Dorset 610,464 Durham 698,966 East Sussex 670,182 Essex 1,821,532 Gloucestershire 568,408 Hampshire 1,707,874 Hereford and Worcester 745,915 Hertfordshire 1,155,985 Humberside 1,075,491 Isle of Wight 144,030 Kent 1,777,478 Lancashire 1,647,414 Leicestershire 1,089,525 Lincolnshire 679,359 Norfolk 807,025 Northamptonshire 703,169 Northumberland 363,015 North Yorkshire 746,045 Nottinghamshire 1,180,252 Oxfordshire 575,576 Shropshire 478,931 Somerset 473,021 Staffordshire 1,164,795 Suffolk 677,208 Surrey 994,128 Warwickshire 524,822 West Sussex 732,529 Wiltshire 614,368