HC Deb 05 July 1995 vol 263 cc235-6W
Mr. Nigel Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what factors were taken into account when deciding to include all salaries rather than education salaries in the determination of the area cost adjustment for the education standard spending assessment; [31947]

(2) pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) on 12 June, Official Report, column 417, what other expenses are taken into

Expenditure on education other than at school
A B C
1993–94 Gross expenditure on education other than at school £000 Gross LEA expenditure£000 A as a percentage of B Percentage
Corporation of London 70 2,792 2.5
Camden 2,103 107,239 2.0
Greenwich 3,930 130,387 3.0
Hackney 94 130,965 0.1
Hammersmith 2,959 87,131 3.4
Islington n/a 117,886 n/a
Kensington and Chelsea 475 64,095 0.7
Lambeth 2,272 147,135 1.5
Lewisham 1,743 129,582 1.3
Southwark 9,295 130,033 7.1
Tower Hamlets 1,362 137,526 1.0
Wandsworth 4,270 111,613 3.8
Westminster 1,977 95,812 2.1
Barking 2,566 71,871 3.6
Barnet 136 135,228 0.1
Bexley 254 87,566 0.3
Brent 75 126,662 0.1
Bromley 2,559 90,193 2.8
Croydon 10,012 145,168 6.9
Ealing 2,007 129,805 1.5
Enfield 2,589 122,282 2.1
Haringey 269 123,408 0.2
Harrow 421 99,083 0.4
Havering 230 87,409 0.3
Hillingdon 164 77,691 0.2
Hounslow 176 105,192 0.2
Kingston upon Thames 541 55,558 1.0
Merton 1,583 79,806 2.0

account besides salaries and higher rates when calculating area cost adjustment difference percentages; [31977]

(3) to what percentage of the education standard spending assessment the labour area cost adjustment is applied; and for what reason. [31949]

Mr. Robin Squire

All education staff—teaching and non-teaching—are members of labour markets which include other employment groups. The general market earning levels of these groups are therefore reflected in the area cost adjustment. London weighting payments and average teachers' salaries do not represent the full costs of providing a standard level of service in London and the south-east. Further costs arise from lower levels of experience, higher vacancy, wastage and turnover rates and non-salary payments.

The labour cost adjustment is applied to 80 per cent. of the education SSA since that represents the proportion which is intended to relate to employment costs —both direct and indirect and teaching and non-teaching.