§ Mr. FatchettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list local education authorities in rank order of expenditure per pupil on secondary education for the last year for which figures are available, giving in each case(a) the number of (i) secondary and (ii) primary schools which have held ballots on grant-maintained status and (b) the number of (i) secondary and (ii) primary schools which have voted to apply for grant-maintained status.
§ Mr. ForthThe tables rank LEAs by school based spending per secondary pupil in 1989–90, the latest year for which information on actual spending is available. Table 1 lists the number of secondary and primary schools per LEA which have held ballots on grant-maintained status and table 2 lists the number which have voted for grant-maintained status.
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Local education authority Net institutional expenditure1 per secondary pupil2 Number of schools which have balloted on grant maintained status3 1989–90 (£) Secondary Primary Havering 1,990 1 0 Newcastle Upon Tyne 1,980 0 0 Harrow 1,975 1 0 Wirral 1,975 1 0 Derbyshire 1,975 6 4 Wolverhampton 1,975 2 1 St. Helens 1,970 0 0 Bromley 1,955 13 2 Dudley 1,955 3 0 Nottinghamshire 1,955 3 0 Barnet 1,945 2 1 Croydon 1,935 2 0 Merton 1,925 0 0 Trafford 1,920 1 0 Sheffield 1,920 2 5 Cleveland 1,915 0 0 Hertfordshire 1,900 10 5 Leicestershire 1,900 3 0 Gateshead 1,865 1 0 Stockport 1,860 0 0 Bury 1,860 0 0 Shropshire 1,855 1 2 Rcdbridge 1,855 1 0 Buckinghamshire 1,850 4 3 Cumbria 1,845 6 3 Sunderland 1,845 0 0 Sutton 1,840 5 0 Bolton 1,840 1 1 Solihull 1,835 2 1 Tameside 1,835 2 0 Birmingham 1,835 5 0 Bexley 1,820 1 2 Lancashire 1,820 10 1 Suffolk 1,820 0 0 Enfield 1,815 0 0 Bedfordshire 1,815 3 1 Oxfordshire 1,810 1 0 Rotherham 1,810 0 0 Kirklees 1,810 3 2 Norfolk 1,810 11 12 Doncaster 1,805 1 0 Essex 1,800 33 9 Avon 1,800 2 1 Barnsley 1,795 2 1 Richmond upon Thames 1,790 0 0 Hampshire 1,790 8 9 Staffordshire 1,790 2 0 Warwickshire 1,770 7 0 East Sussex 1,765 0 0 Oldham 1,765 1 0 North Yorkshire 1,760 1 1 Humberside 1,760 1 1 West Sussex 1,745 1 0 Somerset 1,745 1 2 Gloucestershire 1,735 22 1 Berkshire 1,735 9 3 Durham 1,735 1 0 Cheshire 1,725 5 3 Sefton 1,715 0 0 Leeds 1,715 0 0 Devon 1,710 4 1 Cornwall (including Scilly Isles) 1,700 0 1 Wiltshire 1,700 4 1 Northamptonshire 1,685 13 4 Lincolnshire 1,680 21 7 Surrey 1,675 10 10 Calderdale 1,665 2 1 Northumberland 1,645 0 0 Cambridgeshire 1,640 7 8 Hereford and Worcester 1,635 1 0 Dorset 1,635 11 1 Bradford 1,635 1 0 Isle of Wight 1,575 0 0 Kent 1,570 44 6 North Tyneside n/a 0 0
Local education authority Net institutional expenditure1 per secondary pupil2 Number of schools which have balloted on grant maintained status3 1989–90 (£) Secondary Primary Hounslow n/a 0 0 Wakefield n/a 0 1 Manchester n/a 0 0 Haringey n/a 0 0
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Table 2 Net institutional expenditure1 per secondary pupil2 1989–90 3Number of schools which voted to apply for grant maintained status LEA £ Secondary Primary Inner London 2,745 9 5 Waltham Forest 2,490 1 0 Ealing 2,345 6 2 Newham 2,310 1 0 Brent 2,225 3 0 Barking 2,200 0 0 Coventry 2,180 0 0 Salford 2,140 0 0 Kingston Upon Thames 2,120 1 0 Sandwell 2,115 1 0 Liverpool 2,110 1 0 Knowsley 2,105 0 0 Rochdale 2,050 0 1 Hillingdon 2,010 10 2 South Tyneside 2,010 0 0 Wigan 2,000 1 0 Walsall 1,995 2 0 Havering 1,990 0 0 Newcastle Upon Tyne 1,980 0 0 Harrow 1,975 0 0 Wirral 1,975 1 0 Derbyshire 1,975 3 2 Wolverhampton 1,975 2 0 St. Helens 1,970 0 0 Bromley 1,955 12 2 Dudley 1,955 2 0 Nottinghamshire 1,955 1 0 Barnet 1,945 2 0 Croydon 1,935 1 0 Merton 1,925 0 0 Trafford 1,920 0 0 Sheffield 1,920 1 4 Cleveland 1,915 0 0 Hertfordshire 1,900 7 4 Leicestershire 1,900 2 0 Gateshead 1,865 0 0 Stockport 1,860 0 0 Bury 1,860 0 0 Shropshire 1,855 1 2 Redbridge 1,855 0 0 Buckinghamshire 1,850 4 2 Cumbria 1,845 6 3 Sunderland 1,845 0 0 Sutton 1,840 5 0 Bolton 1,840 1 1 Solihull 1,835 1 1 Tameside 1,835 1 0
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Net institutional expenditure1 per secondary pupil2 1989–90 3Number of schools which voted to apply for grant maintained status LEA £ Secondary Primary Birmingham 1,835 4 0 Bexley 1,820 0 2 Lancashire 1,820 6 1 Suffolk 1,820 0 0 Enfield 1,815 0 0 Bedfordshire 1,815 2 1 Oxfordshire 1,810 0 0 Rotherham 1,810 0 0 Kirklees 1,810 3 0 Norfolk 1,810 8 10 Doncaster 1,805 0 0 Essex 1,800 30 7 Avon 1,800 2 0 Barnsley 1,795 0 1 Richmond Upon Thames 1,790 0 0 Hampshire 1,790 6 7 Staffordshire 1,790 1 0 Warwickshire 1,770 6 0 East Sussex 1,765 0 0 Oldham 1,765 0 0 North Yorkshire 1,760 0 0 Humberside 1,760 0 1 West Sussex 1,745 0 0 Somerset 1,745 1 1 Gloucestershire 1,735 16 1 Berkshire 1,735 9 3 Durham 1,735 0 0 Cheshire 1,725 1 3 Sefton 1,715 0 0 Leeds 1,715 0 0 Devon 1,710 2 0 Cornwall including Scilly 1,700 0 1 Wiltshire 1,700 3 1 Northamptonshire 1,685 10 3 Lincolnshire 1,680 21 5 Surrey 1,675 10 8 Calderdale 1,665 2 1 Northumberland 1,645 0 0 Cambridgeshire 1,640 5 7 Hereford and Worcester 1,635 0 0 Dorset 1,635 11 0 Bradford 1,635 1 0 Isle of Wight 1,575 0 0 Kent 1,570 40 5 North Tyneside n/a 0 0 Hounslow n/a 0 0 Wakefield n/a 0 1 Manchester n/a 0 0 Haringey n/a 0 0 1Net institutional expenditure covers spending on salaries and wages, recurrent premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services. It excludes spending on LEA administration, home to school transport, school meals and financing costs of capital expenditure. 2Per pupil expenditure figures are derived from LEA's returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment and their pupil numbers to the Department for Education. Figures are for 1989–90, the latest year for which actual spending information is available. 3Figures include all ballots on grant-maintained status up to 13 July 1992. 4n/a indicates that a return was not received from the LEA.