§ Mr. Harry GreenwayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the percentage of pupils statemented in each local education authority in England in the last year for which figures are available; and what percentage of the education budget, and what amount of money, was spent on special needs in each local education authority.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe percentage of pupils in each LEA with a statement of special educational needs in January 1994 is given in the following table.
It is not possible to provide aggregated expenditure on special educational needs in each local education authority, as the data on such expenditure incurred by individual schools are not collected.
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Percentage of pupils with statements in each local education authority in England (January 1994) Local Education Authority Total children with statements as a percentage of the school population Corporation of London 0.33 Camden 2.30 Greenwich 3.07 Hackney 3.66 Hammersmith and Fulham 2.64 Islington 3.27 Kensington and Chelsea 1.46 Lambeth 1.83 Lewisham 3.21 Southwark 2.48 Tower Hamlets 3.03 Wandsworth 2.77 Westminster 2.11 Barking and Dagenham 1.84 Barnet 1.79 Bexley 2.61 Brent 2.13 Bromley 2.34 Croydon 1.95 Ealing 2.10 Enfield 0.94 Haringey 1.84 Harrow 2.13 Havering 1.92 Hillingdon 2.18 Hounslow 3.02 Kingston upon Thames 2.18 Merton 2.48 Newham 2.35 Redbridge 1.94 Richmond upon Thames 2.01 Sutton 2.61 Waltham Forest 1.65 Birmingham 2.27 Coventry 1.95 Dudley 1.88 Sandwell 1.28 Solihull 2.04 Walsall 2.53 Wolverhampton 2.33 Knowsley 2.88 Liverpool 2.67 St. Helens 4.33 Sefton 2.56 Wirral 2.64 Bolton 1.92 Bury 3.67 Manchester 1.65 Oldham 1.12 Rochdale 2.18 Salford 1.67 Stockport 2.98 Tameside 3.03 Trafford 2.21 Wigan 3.63 Barnsley 2.35 Doncaster 2.55 Rotherham 2.53 Sheffield 2.19 Bradford 1.52 Calderdale 1.63 Kirklees 3.04 Leeds 2.82 Wakefield 2.35 Gateshead 1.94 Newcastle upon Tyne 2.36 North Tyneside 2.73 South Tyneside 2.18 Sunderland 2.23 Isles of Scilly 0.69
Percentage of pupils with statements in each local education authority in England (January 1994) Local Education Authority Total children with statements as a percentage of the school population Avon 2.56 Bedfordshire 2.94 Berkshire 2.50 Buckinghamshire 3.45 Cambridgeshire 1.93 Cheshire 2.94 Cleveland 2.32 Cornwall 3.66 Cumbria 3.19 Derbyshire 2n/a Devon 3.14 Dorset 2.61 Durham 2.78 East Sussex 3.04 Essex 2.26 Gloucestershire 2.69 Hampshire 3.12 Hereford and Worcester 1.69 Hertfordshire 2.45 Humberside 1.86 Isle of Wight 2.27 Kent 2.49 Lancashire 3.24 Leicestershire 2.27 Lincolnshire 3.36 Norfolk 3.21 North Yorkshire 2.21 Northamptonshire 1.95 Northumberland 2.35 Nottinghamshire 1.11 Oxfordshire 1.80 Shropshire 3.24 Somerset 1.90 Staffordshire 2.39 Suffolk 3.02 Surrey 2.99 Warwickshire 2.26 West Sussex 2.09 Wiltshire 3.44 England1 2.49 1 England figures exclude Derbyshire.2 not available.