HC Deb 18 May 1994 vol 243 cc484-95W
Mr. Clifton-Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the amount deducted for the provision of central support services by each local authority in England prior to the allocation of funds to grant-maintained schools.

Mr. Robin Squire

Annual maintenance grant for grant-maintained schools is calculated in one of two ways. The Government have introduced a common funding formula to fund GM secondary schools in five local education authority areas in 1994–95. This takes as its starting point the education standard spending assessment, not including the fifth sub-block which relates to services provided outside the school sector.

From this SSA-derived total, an amount is first deducted for the LEA's continuing responsibilities. Secondly, an amount is deducted for spending on primary schools, according to the relationship between the authority's spending on primary and secondary education in 1993–94. The remaining total forms the basis of allocations between all secondary schools within the area. The two deductions are shown in the table as percentages of the four schools-related sub-blocks of the SSA.

Continuing responsibilities Primary education
Bromley 13.79 39.16
Calderdale 12.41 45.10
Essex 17.41 39.92
Gloucestershire 20.00 40.06
Hillingdon 18.02 42.08

For GM schools not funded under the CFF, AMG consists of three separate sums. The first is what the GM school would have received under the local management of schools scheme of its former maintaining LEA. The second consists of an amount for school meals. The third is an amount for services which LEA schools receive free of charge but for which GM schools assume direct responsibility, and is a simple percentage of the first sum. The percentages applying, separately for primary and secondary schools, in 1994–95 in those LEA areas in which there are GM schools are as follows:

Local education authority Primary Secondary
Avon County Council 14.0 9.7
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham 11.0 8.4
London Borough of Barnet 13.6 9.8
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 15.2 9.8
Bedfordshire County Council 15.3 11.6
Berkshire County Council 10.6 7.2
London Borough of Bexley 11.9 8.0
Birmingham City Council 14.5 10.2
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council 14.4 9.8
Bradford City Council 11.8 9.4
London Borough of Brent 9.4 6.7
London Borough of Bromley 13.6 9.5
Buckinghamshire County Council 16.1 11.3
Bury Metropolitan Borough Council 12.5 9.1
Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council 12.0 8.4
London Borough of Camden 13.6 10.1
Cambridgeshire County Council 11.4 7.9
Cheshire County Council 12.3 8.4
Common Council of the City of London 17.2 n/a
Cleveland County Council 18.0 11.7
Cornwall County Council 10.6 7.4
Coventry City Council 15.5 10.3
London Borough of Croydon 10.4 8.3
Cumbria County Council 10.4 7.5
Derbyshire County Council 14.1 8.9
Devon County Council 10.9 7.5
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council 15.9 10.5
Dorset County Council 13.7 9.6
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council 9.1 6.6
Durham County Council 13.5 9.4
London Borough of Ealing 9.2 6.9
East Sussex County Council 15.4 10.2
London Borough of Enfield 11.9 8.4
Essex County Council 13.3 8.7
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council 16.8 11.9
Gloucestershire County Council 13.7 10.8
London Borough of Greenwich 18.1 13.9

Local education authority Primary Secondary
London Borough of Hackney 19.8 13.5
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham 22.1 16.5
Hampshire County Council 14.0 9.8
London Borough of Haringey 16.5 12.0
London Boroughof Harrow 13.5 9.8
London Borough of Havering 12.5 8.0
Hereford and Worcester County Council 11.5 8.8
Hertfordshire County Council 7.8 5.3
London Borough of Hillingdon 13.4 9.9
London Borough of Hounslow 11.6 8.7
Humberside County Council 15.1 10.7
The Council of the Isles of Scilly 15.0 7.5
Isle of Wight County Council 17.2 13.0
London Borough of Islington 5.9 4.7
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 18.8 13.1
Kent County Council 15.6 10.4
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames 12.7 8.7
Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council 14.9 10.2
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council 13.7 9.6
London Borough of Lambeth 16.4 11.1
Lancashire County Council 12.9 8.6
Leeds City Council 10.8 8.2
Leicestershire County Council 12.7 8.9
London Borough of Lewisham 15.3 11.2
Lincolnshire County Council 11.6 7.6
Liverpool City Council 17.1 10.3
Manchester City Council 11.3 7.1
London Borough of Merton 12.5 9.0
Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council 14.1 9.5
London Borough of Newham 11.2 7.3
Norfolk County Council 13.6 9.2
North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council 12.4 8.9
Northamptonshire County Council 11.0 7.7
Northumberland County Council 10.2 7.8
North Yorkshire County Council 15.8 10.6
Nottinghamshire County Council 16.2 12.0
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council 17.4 11.3
Oxfordshire County Council 10.8 8.1
London Borough of Redbridge 17.2 10.7
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames 15.1 11.9
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council 11.7 7.6
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council 15.9 11.3
St. Helens Metropolitan Borough Council 12.6 8.5
Salford City Council 10.9 7.3
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council 17.2 11.7
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council 13.7 8.8
Sheffield City Council 11.3 8.1
Shropshire County Council 12.1 7.8
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council 7.0 5.1
Somerset County Council 13.5 9.3
South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council 15.0 11.1
London Borough of Southwark 13.5 10.0
Staffordshire County Council 13.3 9.7
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council 12.2 8.4
Suffolk County Council 11.9 8.7
Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council 13.3 9.6
Surrey County Council 14.6 10.8
London Borough of Sutton 13.5 9.4
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council 13.8 9.7
London Borough of Tower Hamlets 12.4 9.2
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council 15.3 8.7
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council 16.1 9.9
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council 13.5 9.6
London Borough of Waltham Forest 15.6 10.6
London Borough of Wandsworth 17.0 10.0
Warwickshire County Council 13.7 9.4
Westminster City Council 9.6 7.5
West Sussex County Council 14.0 9.9
Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council 17.6 11.7
Wiltshire County Council 13.8 8.8

Local education authority Primary Secondary
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council 11.6 8.0
Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council 12.0 7.7

Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many(a) schools, (b) primary schools and (c)

Schools are parental ballots on the question of seeking grant-maintained status
LEA Area Schools Total Ballots All Schools Percentage "Yes" Votes Percentage
Avon 429 11 2.6 2 0.5
Barking 63 0 0.0 0 0.0
Barnet 110 17 15.5 12 10.9
Barnsley 111 3 2.7 1 0.9
Bedfordshire 289 22 7.6 14 4.8
Berkshire 334 27 8.1 20 6.0
Bexley 82 10 12.2 8 9.8
Birmingham 413 35 8.5 23 5.6
Bolton 121 4 3.3 4 3.3
Bradford 253 18 7.1 13 5.1
Brent 77 19 24.7 17 22.1
Bromley 95 21 22.1 19 20.0
Buckinghamshire 335 22 6.6 18 5.4
Bury 85 2 2.4 1 1.2
Calderdale 107 17 15.9 13 12.1
Cambridgeshire 310 34 11.0 24 7.7
Camden 52 3 5.8 2 3.8
Cheshire 522 20 3.8 10 1.9
Cleveland 247 4 1.6 0 0.0
Cornwall 281 1 0.4 1 0.4
Corporation of London 1 0 0.0 0 0.0
Coventry 128 1 0.8 0 0.0
Croydon 118 16 13.6 12 10.2
Cumbria 348 44 12.6 37 10.6
Derbyshire 511 42 8.2 25 4.9
Devon 506 20 4.0 8 1.6
Doncaster 161 6 3.7 4 2.5
Dorset 256 18 7.0 15 5.9
Dudley 105 10 9.5 8 7.6
Durham 341 1 0.3 0 0.0
Ealing 99 12 12.1 10 10.1
East Sussex 253 3 1.2 0 0.0
Enfield 87 10 11.5 6 6.9
Essex 686 157 22.9 145 21.1
Gateshead 95 1 1.1 0 0.0
Gloucestershire 305 57 18.7 48 15.7
Greenwich 94 2 2.1 1 1.1
Hackney 73 2 2.7 1 1.4
Hammersmith 48 2 4.2 2 4.2
Hampshire 674 45 6.7 37 5.5
Haringey 86 0 0.0 0 0.0
Harrow 64 2 3.1 1 1.6
Havering 93 9 9.7 4 4.3
Hereford and Worcester 364 10 2.7 5 1.4
Hertfordshire 520 47 9.0 39 7.5
Hillingdon 87 26 29.9 25 28.7
Hounslow 76 3 3.9 2 2.6
Humberside 414 9 2.2 3 0.7
Isle of Wight 67 0 0.0 0 0.0
Isles of Scilly 5 0 0.0 0 0.0
Islington 66 0 0.0 0 0.0
Kensington and Chelsea 31 3 9.7 3 9.7
Kent 706 102 14.4 96 13.6
Kingston upon Thames 46 5 10.9 5 10.9
Kirklees 192 8 4.2 3 1.6
Knowsley 79 3 3.8 1 1.3
Lambeth 87 13 14.9 13 14.9
Lancashire 711 24 3.4 13 1.8
Leeds 295 6 2.0 2 0.7
Leicestershire 414 12 2.9 5 1.2
Lewisham 85 3 3.5 1 1.2
Lincolnshire 356 63 17.7 58 16.3
Liverpool 234 8 3.4 4 1.7
Manchester 202 1 0.5 0 0.0
Merton 60 4 6.7 1 1.7

secondary schools there are in England and in each county; how many schools have (i) held ballots to decide whether or not to opt out of local education authority control and (ii) decided to opt out of local education authority control; and what are (i) and (ii) as a percentage of (a), (b) and (c) for each county and for England.

Robin Squire

The information requested is given in the table for each local authority in England.

LEA Area Schools Total Ballots All Schools Percentage "Yes" Votes Percentage
Newcastle upon Tyne 102 2 2.0 0 0.0
Newham 81 1 1.2 1 1.2
Norfolk 448 37 8.3 29 6.5
North Tyneside 87 5 5.7 3 3.4
North Yorkshire 451 5 1.1 1 0.2
Northamptonshire 335 37 11.0 26 7.8
Northumberland 204 3 1.5 1 0.5
Nottinghamshire 508 11 2.2 4 0.8
Oldham 119 1 0.8 0 0.0
Oxfordshire 284 3 1.1 1 0.4
Redbridge 71 2 2.8 1 1.4
Richmond upon Thames 47 0 0.0 0 0.0
Rochdale 90 13 14.4 8 8.9
Rotherham 133 1 0.8 0 0.0
Salford 106 4 3.8 1 0.9
Sandwell 132 5 3.8 2 1.5
Sefton 116 1 0.9 0 0.0
Sheffield 196 25 12.8 21 10.7
Shropshire 250 12 4.8 12 4.8
Solihull 83 3 3.6 2 2.4
Somerset 266 8 3.0 5 1.9
South Tyneside 69 0 0.0 0 0.0
Southwark 90 10 11.1 10 11.1
St. Helens 79 2 2.5 1 1.3
Staffordshire 497 16 3.2 9 1.8
Stockport 124 2 1.6 0 0.0
Suffolk 332 1 0.3 0 0.0
Sunderland 122 0 0.0 0 0.0
Surrey 423 39 9.2 36 8.5
Sutton 57 13 22.8 11 19.3
Tameside 100 6 6.0 3 3.0
Tower Hamlets 89 2 2.2 1 1.1
Trafford 94 6 6.4 4 4.3
Wakefield 169 2 1.2 2 1.2
Walsall 125 14 11.2 9 7.2
Waltham Forest 77 3 3.9 2 2.6
Wandsworth 82 13 15.9 10 12.2
Warwickshire 281 16 5.7 12 4.3
West Sussex 287 4 1.4 1 0.3
Westminster 50 1 2.0 0 0.0
Wigan 146 1 0.7 1 0.7
Wiltshire 338 45 13.3 34 10.1
Wirral 127 4 3.1 2 1.6
Wolverhampton 121 7 5.8 5 4.1
England 22,533 1,486 6.6 1,116 5.0

Primary schools
LEA area Schools Total ballots Percentage "Yes" votes Percentage
Avon 369 6 1.6 0 0.0
Barking 55 0 0.0 0 0.0
Barnet 89 6 6.7 2 2.2
Barnsley 96 1 1.0 1 1.0
Bedforshire 218 3 1.4 3 1.4
Berkshire 275 10 3.6 7 2.5
Bexley 65 4 6.2 3 4.6
Birmingham 334 11 3.3 6 1.8
Bolton 105 1 1.0 1 1.0
Bradford 165 9 5.5 7 4.2
Brent 64 5 7.8 5 7.8
Bromley 78 7 9.0 6 7.7
Buckinghamshire 290 11 3.8 8 2.8
Bury 71 2 2.8 1 1.4
Calderdale 91 6 6.6 5 5.5
Cambridgeshire 267 9 3.4 7 2.6
Camden 41 0 0.0 0 0.0
Cheshire 454 9 2.0 6 1.3
Cleveland 203 1 0.5 0 0.0
Cornwall 250 1 0.4 1 0.4
Corporation of London 1 0 0.0 0 0.0
Coventry 109 1 0.9 0 0.0
Croydon 98 5 5.1 3 3.1
Cumbria 306 29 9.5 22 7.2
Derbyshire 450 16 3.6 9 2.0

LEA area Schools Total ballots Percentage "Yes" votes Percentage
Devon 442 10 2.3 2 0.5
Doncaster 127 5 3.9 4 3.1
Dorset 200 2 1.0 1 0.5
Dudley 83 1 1.2 1 1.2
Durham 298 0 0.0 0 0.0
Ealing 87 4 4.6 4 4.6
East Sussex 219 1 0.5 0 0.0
Enfield 70 4 5.7 1 1.4
Essex 581 79 13.6 73 12.6
Gateshead 82 0 0.0 0 0.0
Gloucestershire 262 21 8.0 18 6.9
Greenwich 79 1 1.3 1 1.3
Hackney 63 1 1.6 1 1.6
Hammersmith 38 1 2.6 1 2.6
Hampshire 580 21 3.6 18 3.1
Haringey 77 0 0.0 0 0.0
Harrow 54 0 0.0 0 0.0
Havering 74 2 2.7 0 0.0
Hereford and Worcester 288 2 0.7 0 0.0
Hertfordshire 432 15 3.5 12 2.8
Hillingdon 72 11 15.3 11 15.3
Hounslow 62 0 0.0 0 0.0
Humberside 354 5 1.4 3 0.8
Isle of Wight 46 0 0.0 0 0.0
Isles of Scilly 4 0 0.0 0 0.0
Islington 57 0 0.0 0 0.0
Kensington and Chelsea 27 2 7.4 2 7.4
Kent 570 27 4.7 25 4.4
Kingston upon Thames 36 1 2.8 1 2.8
Kirklees 158 3 1.9 0 0.0
Knowsley 68 0 0.0 0 0.0
Lambeth 77 8 10.4 8 10.4
Lancashire 605 7 1.2 4 0.7
Leeds 249 3 1.2 1 0.4
Leicestershire 335 2 0.6 0 0.0
Lewisham 72 1 1.4 1 1.4
Lincolnshire 293 32 10.9 28 9.6
Liverpool 198 0 0.0 0 0.0
Manchester 174 0 0.0 0 0.0
Merton 49 1 2.0 0 0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne 80 1 1.3 0 0.0
Newham 67 0 0.0 0 0.0
Norfolk 396 21 5.3 17 4.3
North Tyneside 61 2 3.3 1 1.6
North Yorkshire 392 3 0.8 1 0.3
Northamptonshire 271 16 5.9 12 4.4
Northumberland 143 0 0.0 0 0.0
Nottinghamshire 426 1 0.2 0 0.0
Oldham 104 0 0.0 0 0.0
Oxfordshire 240 1 0.4 1 0.4
Redbridge 56 0 0.0 0 0.0
Richmond upon Thames 39 0 0.0 0 0.0
Rochdale 76 9 11.8 6 7.9
Rotherham 115 0 0.0 0 0.0
Salford 88 0 0.0 0 0.0
Sandwell 112 0 0.0 0 0.0
Sefton 94 0 0.0 0 0.0
Sheffield 165 17 10.3 15 9.1
Shropshire 213 5 2.3 5 2.3
Solihull 70 1 1.4 1 1.4
Somerset 227 5 2.2 3 1.3
South Tyneside 58 0 0.0 0 0.0
Southwark 76 5 6.6 5 6.6
St. Helens 67 1 1.5 1 1.5
Staffordshire 412 5 1.2 4 1.0
Stockport 110 0 0.0 0 0.0
Suffolk 255 0 0.0 0 0.0
Sunderland 105 0 0.0 0 0.0
Surrey 372 23 6.2 21 5.6
Sutton 43 5 11.6 3 7.0
Tameside 82 1 1.2 0 0.0
Tower Hamlets 74 0 0.0 0 0.0
Trafford 78 0 0.0 0 0.0
Wakefield 131 2 1.5 2 1.5
Walsall 104 3 2.9 2 1.9
Waltham Forest 61 1 1.6 0 0.0
Wandsworth 72 5 6.9 3 4.2
Warwickshire 244 7 2.9 4 1.6

LEA area Schools Total ballots Percentage "Yes" votes Percentage
West Sussex 246 1 0.4 1 0.4
Westminster 42 0 0.0 0 0.0
Wigan 125 0 0.0 0 0.0
Wiltshire 294 21 7.1 18 6.1
Wirral 106 0 0.0 0 0.0
Wolverhampton 101 1 1.0 0 0.0
England 18,879 589 3.1 450 2.4

Secondary Schools
LEA Area Schools Total Ballots Secondary Schools Per cent. "Yes" Votes Per cent.
Avon 60 5 8.3 2 3.3
Barking 8 0 0.0 0 0.0
Barnet 21 11 52.4 10 47.6
Barnsley 15 2 13.3 0 0.0
Bedfordshire 71 19 26.8 11 15.5
Berkshire 59 17 28.8 13 22.0
Bexley 17 6 35.3 5 29.4
Birmingham 79 24 30.4 17 21.5
Bolton 16 3 18.8 3 18.8
Bradford 88 9 10.2 6 6.8
Brent 13 14 107.7 12 92.3
Bromley 17 14 82.4 13 76.5
Buckinghamshire 45 11 24.4 10 22.2
Bury 14 0 0.0 0 0.0
Calderdale 16 11 68.8 8 50.0
Cambridgeshire 43 25 58.1 17 39.5
Camden 11 3 27.3 2 18.2
Cheshire 68 11 16.2 4 5.9
Cleveland 44 3 6.8 0 0.0
Cornwall 31 0 0.0 0 0.0
Corporation of London 0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Coventry 19 0 0.0 0 0.0
Croydon 20 11 55.0 9 45.0
Cumbria 42 15 35.7 15 35.7
Derbyshire 61 26 42.6 16 26.2
Devon 64 10 15.6 6 9.4
Doncaster 34 1 2.9 0 0.0
Dorset 56 16 28.6 14 25.0
Dudley 22 9 40.9 7 31.8
Durham 43 1 2.3 0 0.0
Ealing 12 8 66.7 6 50.0
East Sussex 34 2 5.9 0 0.0
Enfield 17 6 35.3 5 29.4
Essex 105 78 74.3 72 68.6
Gateshead 13 1 7.7 0 0.0
Gloucestershire 43 36 83.7 30 69.8
Greenwich 15 1 6.7 0 0.0
Hackney 10 1 10.0 0 0.0
Hammersmith 10 1 10.0 1 10.0
Hampshire 94 24 25.5 19 20.2
Haringey 9 0 0.0 0 0.0
Harrow 10 2 20.0 1 10.0
Havering 19 7 36.8 4 21.1
Hereford and Worcester 76 8 10.5 5 6.6
Hertfordshire 88 32 36.4 27 30.7
Hillingdon 15 15 100.0 14 93.3
Hounslow 14 3 21.4 2 14.3
Humberside 60 4 6.7 0 0.0
Isle of Wight 21 0 0.0 0 0.0
Isles of Scilly 1 0 0.0 0 0.0
Islington 9 0 0.0 0 0.0
Kensington and Chelsea 4 1 25.0 1 25.0
Kent 136 75 55.1 71 52.2
Kingston upon Thames 10 4 40.0 4 40.0
Kirklees 34 5 14.7 3 8.8
Knowsley 11 3 27.3 1 9.1
Lambeth 10 5 50.0 5 50.0
Lancashire 106 17 16.0 9 8.5
Leeds 46 3 6.5 1 2.2
Leicestershire 79 10 12.7 5 6.3
Lewisham 13 2 15.4 0 0.0
Lincolnshire 63 31 49.2 30 47.6
Liverpool 36 8 22.2 4 11.1
Manchester 28 1 3.6 0 0.0

Secondary Schools
LEA Area Schools Total Ballots Secondary Schools Per cent. "Yes" Votes Per cent.
Merton 11 3 27.3 1 9.1
Newcastle upon Tyne 22 1 4.5 0 0.0
Newham 14 1 7.1 1 7.1
Norfolk 52 16 30.8 12 23.1
North Tyneside 26 3 11.5 2 7.7
North Yorkshire 59 2 3.4 0 0.0
Northamptonshire 64 21 32.8 14 21.9
Northumberland 61 3 4.9 1 1.6
Nottinghamshire 82 10 12.2 4 4.9
Oldham 15 1 6.7 0 0.0
Oxfordshire 4 2 4.5 0 0.0
Redbridge 15 2 13.3 1 6.7
Richmond upon Thames 8 0 0.0 0 0.0
Rochdale 14 4 28.6 2 14.3
Rotherham 18 1 5.6 0 0.0
Salford 18 4 22.2 1 5.6
Sandwell 20 5 25.0 2 10.0
Sefton 22 1 4.5 0 0.0
Sheffield 31 8 25.8 6 19.4
Shropshire 37 7 18.9 7 18.9
Solihull 13 2 15.4 1 7.7
Somerset 39 3 7.7 2 5.1
South Tyneside 11 0 0.0 0 0.0
Southwark 14 5 35.7 5 35.7
St. Helens 12 1 8.3 0 0.0
Staffordshire 85 11 12.9 5 5.9
Stockport 14 2 14.3 0 0.0
Suffolk 77 1 1.3 0 0.0
Sunderland 17 0 0.0 0 0.0
Surrey 51 16 31.4 15 29.4
Sutton 14 8 57.1 8 57.1
Tameside 18 5 27.8 3 16.7
Tower Hamlets 15 2 13.3 1 6.7
Trafford 16 6 37.5 4 25.0
Wakefield 38 0 0.0 0 0.0
Walsall 21 11 52.4 7 33.3
Waltham Forest 16 2 12.5 2 12.5
Wandsworth 10 8 80.0 7 70.0
Warwickshire 37 9 24.3 8 21.6
West Sussex 41 3 7.3 0 0.0
Westminster 8 1 12.5 0 0.0
Wigan 21 1 4.8 1 4.8
Wiltshire 44 24 54.5 16 36.4
Wirral 21 4 19.0 2 9.5
Wolverhampton 20 6 30.0 5 25.0
ENGLAND 3,654 897 24.5 666 18.2
Notes:
1. Numbers of schools shown are of maintained primary and secondary schools, eligible for GM status, currently recorded in the DFE Index of Educational Establishment.
2. The numbers of ballots are as 10th May 1994. They may change daily.
3. A small number of schools have held more than one ballot.