§ Mrs. CurrieTo ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) if she will list in rank order the shire county local education authorities showing the reserves held in their education budgets at the most recent date available;
(2) if she will list in rank order (a) the metropolitan district education authorities outside London and (b) the London boroughs to show the reserves held in their education budgets at the most recent date available.
§ Mr. Robin SquireReserves held by local authorities are not apportioned between education and other services.
For the financial year ending on 31 March 1994, the table shows the total amount of balances held by schools for each LEA for which the information is available to the Department. The figures are shown in rank order for (a) metropolitan districts outside London; (b) inner and outer-London boroughs; and (c) shire counties.
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Total balances in schools—year ending 31 March 1994 LEA Balance (£000) a) Metropolitan districts outside London Birmingham 16,696 Sandwell 5,742 Bradford 5,632 Sefton 5,684 Sheffield 5,616 Coventry 4,802 Doncaster 4,735 Leeds 4,587 Solihull 4,504 Newcastle upon Tyne 4,271 Wolverhampton 4,155 Wigan 4,144 St. Helens 3,941 Kirklees 3,868 Wakefield 3,643 Walsall 3,594 Wirrall 3,249 Manchester 3,146 Barnsley 3,046 Stockport 2,741 Salford 2,456 Calderdale 2,330 Bolton 2,291 Bury 2,225 Knowsley 2,078 Sunderland 1,897 South Tyneside 1,861 Gateshead 1,577 Dudley 1,317 Tameside 1,303 Trafford 1,055 Rotherham 930 North Tyneside 372 Oldham 322 Rochdale 211 Liverpool n/a b) London boroughs Tower Hamlets 8,189 Croydon 5,499 Lambeth 5,325 Hounslow 4,969 Enfield 4,778 Camden 4,768 Newham 4,694 Brent 4,545 Barnet 4,279 Lewisham 4,270 Havering 3,544 Southwark 3,513 Haringey 3,352 Redbridge 3,247 Wandsworth 3,228 Westminster 3,195 Bromley 3,134 Merton 2,996 Ealing 2,971 Islington 2,549 Richmond upon Thames 2,440 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,366 Hillingdon 2,231 Hackney 2,171 Bexley 2,013 Barking 1,707 Harrow 1,640 Kensington 1,386 Sutton 1,303 Kingston upon Thames 774 Corporation of London 38 Greenwich n/a Waltham Forest n/a
Total balances in schools—year ending 31 March 1994 LEA Balance (£000) c) Shire counties Lancashire 32,976 Hampshire 25,542 Essex 23,612 Hertfordshire 20,397 Cheshire 16,196 Leicestershire 15,750 Nottinghamshire 15,275 Hereford and Worcester 13,855 Suffolk 13,500 Derbyshire 12,475 Avon 12,093 Oxfordshire 11,951 Kent 11,675 North Yorkshire 11,470 Devon 10,340 Northamptonshire 10,067 Norfolk 9,199 Staffordshire 9,160 Bedfordshire 8,297 Cleveland 8,169 Buckinghamshire 8,316 Berkshire 7,985 Durham 7,799 Humberside 7,764 Wiltshire 7,341 Cornwall 7,241 Dorset 7,200 Lincolnshire 6,891 Warwickshire 6,576 Somerset 6,665 Cambridgeshire 6,585 Gloucestershire 6,240 East Sussex 5,990 Surrey 4,986 Shropshire 4,574 West Sussex 4,499 Northumberland 3,667 Cumbria 2,844 Isle of Wight 1,487 Isles of Scilly n/a Note:
The figures are derived from the LMS outturn statements—1993–94—prepared by LEAs under section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988, with the exception of one figure which has been separately provided by the LEA concerned. "N/A" denotes that the information is not yet available to the Department, either because no statement has been received or—in one case—because the LEA has been asked to clarify the treatment of balances in its statement. All figures represent surpluses net of deficits and cover all county and voluntary schools, and special schools in the case of the eight LEAs whose LMS schemes covered them in 1993–94. They also include the final balances shown in respect of schools which became grant-maintained during the course of the financial year.