HC Deb 21 February 1995 vol 255 cc182-4W
Mr. Devlin

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of the standard spending assessment is being spent and what proportion of the education budget is being retained for administration, in rank order, in each English county, accordingly to the latest figures.

Mr. Robin Squire

There is no separate allowance within standard spending assessments for administration; it is for each local education authority to decide what proportion of its education budget to use for administration costs. The table shows, for each LEA in England, expenditure on service strategy and regulation, management and administration and the inspection and advisory service, as a proportion of total LEA expenditure, in 1992–93, the latest year for which outturn figures are available.

LEA expenditure on administration1 as a proportion of total expenditure, 1992–93
LEA Rank number Percentage of total expenditure on administration
1 Corporation of London 15.4
2 Lewisham 13.4
3 Bexley 10.9
4 Hammersmith and Fulham 9.2
5 Greenwich 9.0
6 Croydon 8.8
7 Kensington and Chelsea 8.6
8 Kent 8.0
9 Waltham Forest 7.9
10 Southwark 7.9
11 Lambeth 7.9
12 Sutton 7.9
13 Northamptonshire 7.8
14 Salford 7.6
15 Coventry 7.6
16 Tower Hamlets 7.4
17 Isle of Wight 7.2
18 City of Westminster 7.2
19 South Tyneside 7.1
20 Wandsworth 7.0
21 Buckinghamshire 6.9
22 Enfield 6.7
23 Barking 6.6
24 Camden 6.4
25 Somerset 6.3
26 Merton 5.9
27 Knowsley 5.9
28 Islington 5.9
29 Kirklees 5.7
30 Northumberland 5.7
31 Oldham 5.6
32 Ealing 5.6
33 Redbridge 5.6
34 Hackney 5.5
35 Haringey 5.5
36 Warwickshire 5.4
37 Kingston upon Thames 5.4
38 Cumbria 5.4
39 Wiltshire 5.2
40 Cornwall 5.2
41 Hillingdon 5.1
42 Barnsley 5.1
43 Solihull 5.1
44 Bromley 5.1
45 Suffolk 5.0
46 Dudley 5.0
47 Berkshire 4.8
48 Bury 4.8
49 Gateshead 4.6
50 Harrow 4.6
51 Dorset 4.5
52 Hampshire 4.5
53 Lincolnshire 4.4
54 Leeds 4.4
55 Manchester 4.4

LEA expenditure on administration1 as a proportion of total expenditure, 1992–93
LEA Rank number Percentage of total expenditure on administration
56 Newham 4.3
57 Avon 4.3
58 East Sussex 4.3
59 Newcastle upon Tyne 4.3
60 Barnet 4.2
61 Calderdale 4.2
62 Hertfordshire 4.2
63 Birmingham 4.2
64 Norfolk 4.2
65 Sefton 4.1
66 Sandwell 4.1
67 Cheshire 3.9
68 Bedfordshire 3.9
69 Essex 3.9
70 Sheffield 3.9
71 Nottinghamshire 3.9
72 West Sussex 3.8
73 Bolton 3.8
74 Wirral 3.8
75 Shropshire 3.8
76 Cambridgeshire 3.7
77 Derbyshire 3.7
78 Gloucestershire 3.6
79 Havering 3.6
80 Rotherham 3.6
81 Sunderland 3.6
82 Richmond upon Thames 3.4
83 Wolverhampton 3.4
84 Rochdale 3.3
85 Liverpool 3.3
86 Hounslow 3.3
87 Wakefield 3.3
88 Tameside 3.3
89 Brent 3.3
90 Stockport 3.3
91 Hereford and Worcester 3.1
92 North Yorkshire 3.0
93 Surrey 3.0
94 Durham 3.0
95 Bradford 3.0
96 Doncaster 3.0
97 Devon 3.0
98 Isles of Scilly 2.8
99 Staffordshire 2.7
100 St. Helens 2.7
101 Wigan 2.7
102 Oxfordshire 2.6
103 Walsall 2.5
104 Humberside 2.4
105 Leicestershire 2.4
106 Cleveland 2.2
107 Trafford 2.1
108 North Tyneside 1.8
109 Lancashire 1.7
Total 4.5
1 Administration covers Service Strategy and Regulation, Management and Administration and the Inspection and Advisory Service.