Written Answers of 24 September 1992

EDUCATION

  Education Expenditure (London)
  Mr. Thomason
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education how the cost of education provision has changed within inner London in comparison to those costs for outer London between the financial years preceding, including and succeeding the abolition of the Inner London education authority.

  Mr. Forth
  The latest year for which information on local education authorities' actual spending is available is 2
  1989–90. That was the last year of the Inner London education authority. In the three years to 1989–90, London LEAs' net recurrent expenditure on education was as shown in the table.

  LEAs' net recurrent expenditure1 on education

  Year

  Inner London £ million

  2Outer London £ million

  1987–88

  1,103

  1,202

  1988–89

  1,086

  1,417

  1989–90

  1,085

  1,485

  1 Net recurrent expenditure includes total expenditure other than capital financing costs, less income other than from specific Government grants. Information is taken from LEAs' returns to the Department of the Environment of their actual spending.

  2 Excluding the following LEAs, which did not complete returns: 1987–88, Ealing and Haringey; 1988–89, Haringey; 1989–90, Haringey and Hounslow.

  EDUCATION ACT 1973, SECTION 2: TRUSTEES
  EDUCATION ACT 1973, SECTION 2: TRUSTEES