HC Deb 13 December 1995 vol 268 c693W
26. Mr Nicholas Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the current annual total average expenditure per pupil in secondary schools; and what the equivalent figure was in 1979. [3897]

Mr. Robin Squire

Net institutional expenditure per pupil in LEA-maintained secondary schools was £607 in cash 1979–80 and £2,245 in 1993–94, the latest year for which figures are available. In real terms that is a 50 per cent. increase.