HL Deb 12 November 1992 vol 540 cc28-30WA
Baroness David

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What was the expenditure on books in colleges of further education in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales respectively in the following categories:

  1. (a) total spending per local authority;
  2. (b) per student expenditure (full-time equivalent) per local authority;
  3. (c) total spending per student;
  4. (d) average expenditure per student.

Baroness Blatch

The available information on local education authorities' spending on books and equipment in their maintained colleges of further and higher education in 1990–91 is shown in the table. It is derived from local authorities' returns of their spending and their student numbers. The tables show combined figures for books and equipment because not all authorities' returns identify separately spending on books from that on equipment.

LEA Expenditure Expenditure per full time equivalent student
(£000) (£)
City n.a. n.a.
Camden 349 180
Greenwich 162 112
Hackney 323 121
Hammersmith 263 92
Islington 0 0
Kensington 39 12
Lambeth 439 117
Lewisham 491 183
Southwark 528 258
Tower Hamlets 277 165
Wandsworth 1,017 182
Westminster 943 376
Barking 662 303
Barnet 571 120
Bexley 406 191
Brent 736 171
Bromley 201 72
Croydon 755 149
Ealing 437 158
Enfield 157 38
Haringey 405 154
Harrow 342 65

LEA Expenditure Expenditure per full time equivalent student
(£000) (£)
Havering 475 165
Hillingdon 376 202
Hounslow 576 255
Kingston-upon-Thames 443 172
Merton 650 315
Newham 1,230 321
Redbridge 136 108
Richmond-upon-Thames 789 219
Sutton 275 119
Waltham Forest 503 167
Birmingham 3,780 219
Coventry 2,253 420
Dudley 929 115
Sandwell 261 45
Solihull 426 118
Walsall 661 217
Wolverhampton 648 141
Knowsley 567 228
Liverpool 681 89
St. Helens 804 205
Sefton 1,189 249
Wirral 1,546 355
Bolton 260 89
Bury 557 184
Manchester 2,107 255
Oldham 381 169
Rochdale 759 236
Salford 427 127
Stockport 447 104
Tameside 572 176
Trafford 565 163
Wigan 1,206 190
Barnsley 459 106
Doncaster 363 75
Rotherham 564 128
Sheffield 1,550 147
Bradford 1,344 152
Calderdale 328 134
Kirklees 1,115 165
Leeds 1,401 137
Wakefield 1,149 265
Gateshead 505 242
Newcastle upon Tyne 633 129
North Tyneside 219 83
South Tyneside 293 76
Sunderland 1,194 240
Avon 2,630 185
Bedfordshire 1,259 167
Berkshire 3,336 287
Buckinghamshire 979 154
Cambridgeshire 1,443 169
Cheshire 2,289 156
Cleveland 602 74
Cornwall 1,424 232
Cumbria 1,395 251
Derbyshire 3,030 236
Devon 3,498 235
Dorset 2,231 284
Durham 1,870 212
East Sussex 1,233 142
Essex 3,568 186
Gloucestershire 1,614 193
Hampshire 4,810 209

LEA Expenditure Expenditure per full time equivalent student
(£000) (£)
Herefordshire 2,603 245
Hertfordshire 5,306 305
Humberside 4,419 383
Isle of Wight 496 265
Kent 4,365 265
Lancashire 2,285 74
Leicestershire 2,366 245
Lincolnshire 842 110
Norfolk 1,317 137
North Yorkshire 3,060 320
Northamptonshire 1,828 256
Northumberland 713 342
Nottinghamshire 2,801 152
Oxfordshire 1,753 204
Shropshire 1,612 257
Somerset 2,045 231
Staffordshire 4,939 343
Suffolk 1,980 212
Surrey 2,625 215
Warwickshire 2,889 335
West Sussex 811 96
Wiltshire 2,791 254
England 138,156 196
Clwyd 1,042 143
Dyfed 1,437 346
Gwent 1,355 168
Gwynedd 1,301 416
Mid Glamorgan 3,349 304
Powys 137 107
South Glamorgan 1,880 248
West Glamorgan 1,690 193
Wales (2) 12,191 238
Borders 9 12
Central 1,041 342
Dumfries and Galloway 553 390
Fife 1,156 212
Grampian 1,456 242
I lighland 826 372
Lothian 2,175 247
Strathclyde 4,607 193
Tayside 1,374 229
Orkney N/A N/A
Shetland 50 407
Western Isles 145 298
Scotland 13,392 230
Belfast 343 48
North East 337 65
South East 319 59
Southern 483 84
Western 306 65
Northern Ireland 1,789 63

Notes:

(1) N/A indicates that the LEA has no college.

(2) Figures for Wales include the Polytechnic of Wales.