§ Mr. BettsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what information he has(a) on the capital borrowing allocation given to each local education authority, the bid submitted by each authority and the number of pupils in the area and (b) the same information for grant-maintained schools within each local education authority area.
§ Mr. Robin SquireInformation on local education authority capital bids for 1995–96 was given in the reply that I gave to the hon. Member for Wallsend (Mr. Byers) on 1 December 1994,Official Report, columns 955–58. Information on capital borrowing allocations for 1995–96 was given in the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Gravesham (Mr. Arnold) on 20 December 1994, Official Report, columns 119–20. Information on numbers of 781W pupils in maintained schools and grant-maintained schools by local authority area, as at January 1994, is attached.
The information requested on capital bids and allocations for grant-maintained schools are a matter for the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the Funding Agency for Schools to write to the hon. Member with this information.
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Pupils in maintained schools in each LEA in England January 1994 Primary and secondary schools LEA maintained Grant-maintained Corporation of London 214 0 Camden 19,204 2,381 Greenwich 35,060 0 Hackney 24,328 0 Hammersmith 13,839 1,237 Islington 22,872 0 Kensington and Chelsea 8,659 944 Lambeth 20,645 4,593 Lewisham 31,281 421 Southwark 27,771 4,133 Tower Hamlets 32,729 891 Wandsworth 19,197 7,181 Westminster 16,690 0 Barking 25,858 0 Barnet 33,023 9,769 Bexley 30,746 3,287 Brent 26,095 8,997 Bromley 27,777 11,803 Croydon 37,245 4,680 Ealing 31,667 7,408 Enfield 35,880 5,791 Haringey 28,999 0 Harrow 27,140 528 Havering 31,123 3,877 Hillingdon 19,487 15,171 Hounslow 31,998 2,123 Kingston upon Thames 15,409 3,149 Merton 22,967 0 Newham 39,071 582 Redbridge 33,944 1,125 Richmond upon Thames 18,817 0 Sutton 17,257 7,572 Waltham Forest 29,571 2,099 Birmingham 157,626 14,802 Coventry 48,838 0 Dudley 42,652 5,054 Sandwell 50,056 653 Solihull 33,066 559 Walsall 41,666 6,366 Wolverhampton 39,205 2,404 Knowsley 27,365 731 Liverpool 79,806 2,366 St. Helens 29,394 0 Sefton 46,429 0 Wirral 50,684 2,107 Bolton 41,408 3,261 Bury 27,348 232 Manchester 68,616 0 Oldham 41,105 0 Rochdale 32,590 2,010 Salford 34,474 430 Stockport 41,614 0 Tameside 34,297 2,371 Trafford 29,429 3,083 Wigan 49,486 0 Barnsley 34,232 0 Doncaster 51,327 0 Rotherham 43,141 0 Sheffield 69,039 2,505 Bradford 81,961 5,565 Calderdale 28,562 4,709
Pupils in maintained schools in each LEA in England January 1994 Primary and secondary schools LEA maintained Grant-maintained Kirklees 61,327 1,267 Leeds 111,871 1,184 Wakefield 50,792 0 Gateshead 30,117 0 Newcastle upon Tyne 39,343 0 North Tyneside 30,957 0 South Tyneside 25,593 0 Sunderland 49,493 0 Isles of Scilly 291 0 Avon 133,408 1,710 Bedfordshire 78,655 9,567 Berkshire 99,627 9,833 Buckinghamshire 87,878 11,653 Cambridgeshire 82,757 17,274 Cheshire 150,600 2,927 Cleveland 101,539 0 Cornwall 69,508 0 Cumbria 64,282 9,773 Derbyshire 125,694 17,272 Devon 134,476 4,983 Dorset 77,498 9,591 Durham 94,042 0 East Sussex 86,330 0 Essex 143,358 76,532 Gloucestershire 55,272 21,714 Hampshire 197,332 19,180 Hereford and Worcester 93,080 3,643 Hertfordshire 134,073 19,099 Humberside 141,179 341 Isle of Wight 17,712 0 Kent 180,360 51,103 Lancashire 207,730 7,103 Leicestershire 137,141 3,270 Lincolnshire 65,275 22,410 Norfolk 92,362 11,347 North Yorkshire 103,253 0 Northamptonshire 83,709 12,466 Northumberland 50,371 650 Nottinghamshire 154,815 1,837 Oxfordshire 76,359 81 Shropshire 57,225 3,989 Somerset 63,860 631 Staffordshire 158,531 4,470 Suffolk 92,379 0 Surrey 105,591 13,139 Warwickshire 66,750 4,783 West Sussex 93,110 0 Wiltshire 69,765 12,927 England 6,618,649 556,699 The numbers of pupils are a headcount of pupils of all ages on roll. Information on pupils is derived from returns made by the schools to the Department in January each year (annual schools census—form 7).
Does not include special schools.