HC Deb 16 July 1992 vol 211 cc871-3W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish figures to show for each local education authority in English in the latest year for which such figures are available what was(a) the potential schools budget, (b) the amount of subsidy spent on school meals and milk and (c) (b) expressed as a percentage of (a).

Mr. Forth

The figures in the following table show planned expenditure for 1991–92, and were taken from local authorities' 1991–92 budget statements, published under section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988.

School meals expenditure 1991–92
(a) (b) (c)
Local education authority Potential schools budget (PSB) School meals expenditure not delegated School meals expenditure as a percentage of PSB
(£ million) (£ million)
Avon 222.7 14.0 6.3
Barking 42.5 2.1 4.9
Barnet 75.4 4.3 5.7
Barnsley 50.7 4.4 8.7
Bedfordshire 150.4 9.6 6.4
Berkshire 168.3 0.9 0.5
Bexley 56.5 2.6 4.5
Birmingham 271.1 18.8 6.9
Bolton 71.0 5.7 8.0
Bradford 141.9 8.5 6.0
Brent 68.9 4.4 6.3
Bromley 64.1 2.9 4.5
Buckinghamshire 148.9 1.4 0.9
Bury 44.2 3.4 7.7
Calderdale 49.8 3.3 6.6

(a) (b) (c)
Local education authority Potential schools budget (PSB) School meals expenditure not delegated School meals expenditure as a percentage of PSB
(£ million) (£ million)
Cambridgeshire 158.6 3.3 2.1
Cheshire 243.6 10.6 4.4
Cleveland 164.9 13.8 8.4
Cornwall 102.1 5.6 5.5
Coventry 81.1 4.4 5.4
Croydon 81.2 1.6 1.9
Cumbria 122.6 4.9 4.0
Derbyshire 235.6 21.6 9.2
Devon 209.3 8.2 3.9
oncaster 83.6 7.0 8.4
Dorset 132.0 0.5 0.3
Dudley 72.4 2.7 3.7
Durham 157.0 10.5 6.7
Ealing 74.2 2.7 3.6
East Sussex 135.8 9.7 7.1
Enfield 71.7 2.4 3.4
Essex 372.7 5.1 1.4
Gateshead 50.8 3.3 6.4
Gloucestershire 115.4 2.0 1.7
Hampshire 367.1 17.3 4.7
Haringey 55.8 3.9 6.9
Harrow 48.7 1.4 2.8
Havering 65.3 1.5 2.3
Hereford/Worcester 156.4 1.4 0.9
Hertfordshire 246.8 14.3 5.8
Hillingdon 60.8 0.3 0.5
Hounslow 60.6 3.6 6.0
Humberside 238.2 13.5 5.7
Isle of Wight 29.8 1.0 3.3
Isles of Scilly 0.9 0.0 2.6
Kent 343.8 3.8 1.1
Kingston 33.1 1.3 3.9
Kirklees 98.5 7.5 7.6
Knowsley 46.4 2.9 6.3
Lancashire 349.2 19.3 5.5
Leeds 188.0 13.2 7.0
Leicestershire 242.9 12.3 5.1
Lincolnshire 134.4 0.6 0.5
Liverpool 141.6 7.9 5.6
Manchester 123.3 13.0 10.5
Merton 40.6 0.6 1.6
Newcastle 70.8 4.3 6.1
Newham 73.6 3.1 4.2
Norfolk 177.0 10.5 6.0
North Tyneside 53.2 4.1 7.7
North Yorkshire 168.2 9.9 5.9
Northamptonshire 155.8 2.2 1.4
Northumberland 71.1 6.2 8.7
Nottinghamshire 267.3 18.1 6.8
Oldham 65.6 4.6 7.1
Oxfordshire 131.9 5.3 4.0
Redbridge 51.6 1.1 2.2
Richmond 32.2 0.9 2.8
Rochdale 52.2 4.2 8.1
Rotherham 70.7 4.4 6.2
Salford 59.2 3.1 5.3
Sandwell 90.8 5.8 6.4
Sefton 76.7 4.3 5.6
Sheffield 118.5 8.0 6.8
Shropshire 108.6 6.3 5.8
Solihull 54.6 3.2 5.9
Somerset 108.4 1.9 1.8
South Tyneside 38.3 3.3 8.7
Staffordshire 253.5 13.3 5.2
St. Helens 49.0 3.1 6.3
Stockport 71.6 2.3 3.2
Suffolk 152.3 1.9 1.3
Sunderland 76.6 4.8 6.2
Surrey 203.5 12.1 5.9
Sutton 37.7 1.2 3.2
Tameside 56.6 4.4 7.8
Trafford 46.4 3.2 6.9
Wakefield 80.8 7.4 9.1
Walsall 77.6 5.4 6.9

(a) (b) (c)
Local education authority Potential schools budget (PSB) School meals expenditure not delegated School meals expenditure as a percentage of PSB
(£ million) (£ million)
Waltham Forest 61.4 4.8 7.8
Warwickshire 110.5 5.6 5.1
Westminster 40.4 3.0 7.4
West Sussex 142.2 3.0 2.1
Wigan 86.7 4.5 5.2
Wiltshire 131.8 4.4 3.3
Wirral 83.8 4.1 4.9
Wolverhampton 73.7 4.3 5.8
Totals and National averages 13,230.3 554.2 4.9

Notes:

1. The table lists each local education authority (LEA) which had a local management scheme in operation in 1991–92. Apart from Westminster, the LEAs in inner London are not included. LEAs are not required to operate a full school meals service, but they are obliged to offer free meals to pupils of families in receipt of income support. Charges may be levied in respect of meals for other pupils.

2. The potential schools budget—column (a)—is defined as the general schools budget less expenditure on certain excepted items: capital expenditure; expenditure supported by central government grants; and expenditure on school meals, home to school transport and transitional exceptions (eg grounds maintenance).

3. The figure for school meals expenditure in each authority—column (b)—is taken from the list of items excepted from delegation shown in each authority's section 42 budget statement for 1991–92. The figures may not be directly comparable for two reasons:

  1. (i) some authorities have separately identified school milk expenditure as a different excepted item, in which case the figure for milk expenditure is not included, and other authorities have included milk expenditure in the same item without disaggregating the costs, in which case milk expenditure is included; and
  2. (ii) the extent to which income from charges is taken into account varies considerably between authorities. For example, in some authorities gross expenditure on school meals is offset by income, in other authorities where the meals service is contracted out the income may be retained by the contractor and the gross expenditure by the authority is reduced accordingly.

4. Figures for 1992–93 are not yet complete.