§ Sir Ivan LawrenceTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what would have been the increase required to remove the effect of inflation from central Government payments to Staffordshire local education authority in each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe annual rate of inflation for the last 10 years is set out in the table, but it is not possible to state what would be the increase required to remove the effect of inflation from central Government payments to Staffordshire local education authority because of 185W annual changes in authorities' relative need to spend. The underlying increases in inflation rates are:
Inflation percentage 1984–85 to 1985–86 5.5 l985–86to 1986–87 3.0 1986–87 10 1987–88 5.3 1987–88 to 1988–89 6.7 1988–89 to 1989–90 7.0 1989–90 to 1990–91 8.0 1990–91 to 1991–92 6.3 1991–92 to 1992–93 4.0 1992–93 to 1993–94 3.1 1993–94 to 1994–95 2.0 1994–95 to 1995–96 3.3