HC Deb 13 December 1995 vol 268 cc699-701W
Mr. Hinchliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the total expenditure on discretionary awards provided by each local education authority in the last year for which figures are available. [5004]

Mr. Forth

The information requested for the academic year 1993–94, the latest for which data are available, is shown in the following table:

Expenditure by local education authorities on discretionary awards1: England and Wales
Academic Year 1993–94
Total HE and FE expenditure2 £000s
Corporation of London 24
Camden3 n/a
Greenwich 349
Hackney 991
Hammersmith and Fulham 178
Islington 184
Kensington and Chelsea 637
Lambeth 127
Lewisham 1,073
Southwark 273
Tower Hamlets 467
Wands worth 1,162
Westminster3 n/a
London Residuary Body 76
Barking and Dagenham 299
Barnet 127
Bexley 409
Brent 497
Bromley 714
Croydon 609
Ealing 204
Enfield 357
Haringey 16
Harrow 103
Havering 654
Hillingdon 193
Hounslow 386
Kingston upon Thames 982
Merton 397
Newham 473
Redbridge 455
Richmond upon Thames 461
Sutton 157
Waltham Forest 246
Birmingham 1,725
Coventry 438
Dudley 175
Sandwell 198

Expenditure by local education authorities on discretionary awards1: England and Wales
Academic Year 1993–94
Total HE and FE expenditure2£000s
Solihull 343
Walsall 537
Wolverhampton 67
Knowsley 816
Liverpool 2,200
St. Helens 507
Sefton 958
Wirral 2,066
Bolton 985
Bury 364
Manchester 2,363
Oldham 823
Rochdale 819
Salford 143
Stockport 1,071
Tameside 452
Trafford 411
Wigan 524
Barnsley 412
Doncaster 754
Rotherham 1,002
Sheffield 692
Bradford 2,181
Calderdale 399
Kirklees 2,300
Leeds 3,231
Wakefield 504
Gateshead 762
Newcastle upon Tyne 890
North Tyneside 1,031
South Tyneside 647
Sunderland 1,296
Isles of Scilly 16
Avon 2,738
Bedfordshire 2,073
Berkshire 1,825
Buckinghamshire 924
Cambridgeshire 920
Cheshire 5,363
Cleveland 2,027
Cornwall 2,574
Cumbria 9,523
Derbyshire 3,491
Devon 4,726
Dorset 6,429
Durham 2,381
East Sussex 2,11
Essex 4,830
Glucostershire 2,467
Hampshire 8,219
Hereford and Worcester 2,036
Hertfordshire 2,549
Humberside 3,462
Isle of Wight 459
Kent 8,728
Lancashire 7,301
Leicestershire 6,265
Lincolnshire 1,739
Norfolk 3,024
North Yorkshire 4,419
Northamptonshire 1,826
Northumberland 1,409
Nottinghamshire 2,896
Oxfordshire 1,285
Shropshire 1,702
Somerset 1,912
Staffordshire 1,114
Suffolk 2,535
Surrey 3,575

Expenditure by local education authorities on discretionary awards:1 England and Wales
Academic Year 1993–94
Total HE and FE expenditure2£000s
Warwickshire 12
West Sussex 1,856
Wiltshire 1,820
Clwyd 1,018
Dyfed 817
Gwent 3,393
Gwynedd 1,189
Mid Glamorgan 1,584
Powys 647
South Glamorgan 1,236
West Glamorgan 965
England and Wales4 184,132
1Including major discretionary awards (paid at at least 50 per cent. of the mandatory rate) and minor awards (paid at less than 50 per cent. of the mandatory rate).
2Including expenditure on fees for discretionary award placement year sandwich students.
3Camden and Westminster were unable to provide all of the information required on discretionary awards expenditure.
4England and Wales total is grossed to compensate for incomplete returns.

Source:

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