HC Deb 18 January 1995 vol 252 cc515-7W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much was spent by each local education authority on books and equipment in 1993–94 prices in(a) 1979–80 and (b) 1993–94.

Mr. Robin Squire

The following table sets out expenditure in 1993–94 prices by LEAs in England on books and equipment at LEA-maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in 1979–80 and 1992–93, the latest year for which figures are available. These figures are drawn from LEAs' own returns of their expenditure to the Department of the Environment. Equivalent information is not available for grant-maintained schools.

Expenditure on books and equipment in 1979–80 and 1992–93 by LEA (in 1993–94 prices)
Nursery, primary and secondary 1979–80 £000s Nursery, primary and secondary 1992–93 £000s
ILEA 43,087 —
Corporation of London 0 24
Camden 0 1,702
Greenwich 0 1,526
Hackney 0 808
Hammersmith 0 847
Islington 0 1,232
Kensington and Chelsea 0 787
Lambeth 0 331
Lewisham 0 5,919
Southwark 0 1,856

Expenditure on books and equipment in 1979–80 and 1992–93 by LEA (in 1993–94 prices)
Nursery, primary and secondary 1979–80 £000s Nursery, primary and secondary 1992–93 £000s
Tower Hamlets 0 3,942
Wandsworth 0 1,251
Westminster 0 4,252
Barking 1,102 2,666
Barnet 2,431 3,990
Bexley 2,446 1,779
Brent 3,031 2,087
Bromley 2,418 1,919
Croydon 2,673 2,832
Ealing 2,488 1,626
Enfield 2,231 1,239
Haringey 2,240 365
Harrow 2,036 2,835
Havering 2,288 2,974
Hillingdon 2,171 2,167
Hounslow 1,791 2,970
Kingston upon Thames 920 1,189
Merton 1,301 2,166
Newham 2,623 3,043
Redbridge 1,877 3,377
Richmond upon Thames 897 1,269
Sutton 1,412 1,060
Waltham Forest 2,649 1,904
Birmingham 7,449 12,626
Coventry 2,961 3,060
Dudley 1,579 2,258
Sandwell 2,774 2,689
Solihull 1,587 3,169
Walsall 2,589 3,525
Wolverhampton 2,437 1,910
Knowsley 1,854 1,995
Liverpool 4,618 3,678
St. Helens 1,313 2,453
Sefton 2,533 3,227
Wirral 2,744 3,030
Bolton 2,397 4,104
Bury 1,676 1,837
Manchester 6,040 4,980
Oldham 2,042 3,263
Rochdale 2,112 1,641
Salford 2,305 440
Stockport 2,474 4,270
Tameside 1,847 2,587
Trafford 1,374 2,092
Wigan 2,882 4,157
Barnsley 2,117 2,945
Doncaster 3,034 0
Rotherham 1,818 2,612
Sheffield 5,141 4,561
Bradford 3,633 4,561
Calderdale 1,434 2,346
Kirklees 2,492 5,708
Leeds 4,689 6,001
Wakefield 2,419 3,238
Gateshead 1,934 2,511
Newcastle upon Tyne 2,744 2,492
North Tyneside 1,797 36
South Tyneside 2,115 1,797
Sunderland 3,005 3,874
Isle of Scilly 13 5
Avon 5,974 14,342
Bedfordshire 5,450 7,122
Berkshire 5,473 9,936
Buckinghamshire 4,890 7,700
Cambridgeshire 4,815 8,698
Cheshire 6,857 9,268
Cleveland 5,879 6,754
Cornwall 3,366 5,429

Expenditure on books and equipment in 1979–80 and 1992–93 by LEA (in 1993–94 prices)
Nursery, primary and secondary 1979–80 £000s Nursery, primary and secondary 1992–93 £000s
Cumbria 3,500 4,456
Derbyshire 7,425 8,759
Devon 6,253 12,447
Dorset 4,022 5,544
Durham 4,121 4,676
East Sussex 5,273 7,784
Essex 12,136 15,367
Gloucestershire 3,285 5,096
Hampshire 9,142 20,274
Hereford and Worcester 4,833 7,919
Hertfordshire 8,672 2,707
Humberside 7,847 11,924
Isle of Wight 1,090 1,420
Kent 13,196 9,135
Lancashire 9,734 20,806
Leicestershire 6,836 15,985
Lincolnshire 3,797 7,299
Norfolk 5,746 5,752
North Yorkshire 5,389 10,301
Northamptonshire 4,775 7,352
Northumberland 2,902 3,012
Nottinghamshire 8,477 11,989
Oxfordshire 5,165 6,560
Shropshire 2,782 1,007
Somerset 3,025 4,384
Staffordshire 10,261 11,643
Suffolk 4,542 16,827
Surrey 4,848 5,917
Warwickshire 3,133 6,230
West Sussex 5,476 10,129
Wiltshire 4,242 6,876
Total 406,716 522,438