§ Mr. David AtkinsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list local education authorities in order of spending per primary pupil with the actual amount spent per pupil for the last available year; and what spending per primary pupil represented as a percentage of spending per secondary pupil in each case.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe information requested is shown in the table for 1991–92, the latest year for which figures are available.
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Cost per pupil 1991–92 Nursery and Primary £ Percentage of spending on secondary pupils City of Westminster 2,902 89.5 Corporation of London 2,609 n/a Islington 2,328 79.2 Kensington and Chelsea 2,287 71.5 Tower Hamlets 2,253 76.5 Wandsworth 2,212 67.5 Hackney 2,176 77.7 Lambeth 2,083 70.0 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,047 74.7 Camden 1,943 79.9 Haringey 1,927 72.7 Isles of Scilly 1,849 44.4 Greenwich 1,830 79.7 Southwark 1,828 74.3 Ealing 1,754 61.9 Richmond upon Thames 1,738 82.2 Merton 1,723 65.7 Lewisham 1,717 72.3 Barnet 1,674 72.0 Newham 1,671 67.7 Brent 1,670 67.0 Harrow 1,661 70.0 Hillingdon 1,661 63.3 Bradford 1,652 92.0 Newcastle upon Tyne 1,646 79.7 Leeds 1,642 83.0 Enfield 1,636 70.5 Oxfordshire 1,635 77.6 Waltham Forest 1,625 62.0 Nottinghamshire 1,625 65.2 Croydon 1,593 67.1 Oldham 1,582 70.0 Calderdale 1,570 78.1 Hounslow 1,567 72.5 609W
Nursery and Primary £ Percentage of spending on secondary pupils Gateshead 1,562 73.8 Wolverhampton 1,554 66.0 Barking 1,550 68.8 Kingston upon Thames 1,543 62.4 Sandwell 1,540 67.6 Lancashire 1,535 69.0 Bedfordshire 1,511 74.2 Berkshire 1,506 69.8 Leicestershire 1,498 66.5 Shropshire 1,497 63.7 Wakefield 1,494 70.7 Redbridge 1,489 64.5 Isle of Wight 1,488 76.9 Hertfordshire 1,482 66.3 Northumberland 1,477 75.2 Sheffield 1,476 67.7 Hereford and Worcester 1,473 75.1 Norfolk 1,465 69.2 Rotherham 1,465 68.1 Cumbria 1,460 67.1 Surrey 1,460 66.3 Hampshire 1,457 68.4 Derbyshire 1,452 66.0 Bromley 1,443 59.1 North Yorkshire 1,442 67.0 Sutton 1,437 66.5 South Tyneside 1,435 70.3 Avon 1,435 70.1 Knowsley 1,432 62.3 Sunderland 1,427 69.7 Gloucestershire 1,425 81.1 Kirklees 1,423 69.2 Humberside 1,422 68.9 East Sussex 1,421 70.4 Manchester 1,421 62.2 Tameside 1,419 67.6 Cambridgeshire 1,417 70.0 Dudley 1,411 66.3 Dorset 1,410 73.4 Wiltshire 1,408 72.3 Cornwall 1,403 71.7 North Tyneside 1,402 67.6 Walsall 1,400 66.4 Staffordshire 1,397 68.3 Havering 1,396 61.9 Devon 1,394 69.6 Durham 1,386 68.6 Liverpool 1,386 58.8 Bolton 1,380 64.8 Barnsley 1,374 67.3 Bexley 1,371 66.6 Birmingham 1,370 63.7 Cheshire 1,364 64.7 Buckinghamshire 1,358 64.8 Northamptonshire 1,355 68.8 Solihull 1,352 63.6 Somerset 1,349 69.1 Lincolnshire 1,348 64.8 St. Helens 1,341 63.7 Warwickshire 1,338 64.0 West Sussex 1,338 64.2 Wirral 1,325 62.7 Doncaster 1,323 66.2 Stockport 1,319 61.8 Sefton 1,313 65.1 Rochdale 1,310 61.4 Bury 1,302 68.6 Coventry 1,300 61.4 Salford 1,299 59.3 Trafford 1,281 60.8 Cleveland 1,271 60.2 Kent 1,263 60.9 Essex 1,261 55.5 Wigan 1,257 54.9 Suffolk 1,250 73.6 Notes to the table:
1. Figures are in outturn prices and are derived from local education authorities' returns of their net institutional expenditure to the Department of the Environment and of their pupil numbers to the Department of Education.
2. Net institutional expenditure covers the direct costs in schools of salaries and wages, premises and certain supplies and services. It does not include the costs of school meals, home to school transport, LEA central administration, and financing costs of capital expenditure. Figures include unspent balances held by schools at the year end under local management of schools schemes.
3. "N/A" indicates not applicable; Corporation of London LEA has no secondary schools.