§ Mr. Win GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by local eduation authority the number of administrative staff employed and the administrative costs in cash and constant terms, indicating the percentage of total education spending in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [41159]
§ Mr. RichardsThe latest available outturn information is given in the tables. Administration expenditure includes service strategy and regulation and management and administration within the education management and support services sector. Administration expenditure was charged directly to the relevant parts of the education service in 1990–91 for Gwent, 1990–91 and 1991–92 for Gwynedd and 1993–94 for Powys, and is not available separately. Outturn information is not available on a consistent basis for 1989–90.
The number of administrative staff employed by education authorities cannot be identified from the information held centrally. The estimated number of full-time and part-time non-manual staff employed in the education service, other than lecturers and teachers, in June 1994 was 11,050–8,870 full-time equivalents.
This comprises all non-manual support staff identified as employed within the education service and includes administrative, secretarial and clerical staff, youth and community workers, nursery and other non-teaching classroom assistants, library staff serving educational establishments, educational psychologists and careers guidance staff. Figures for individual education authorities are not published by the Local Government Management Board because estimates at this level of disaggregation are not sufficiently reliable.
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Local Education Authority net current expenditure on education administration Cash prices 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 £000 Percentage of total education1spending £000 Percentage of total education1spending £000 Percentage of total education1spending £000 Percentage of total education1spending Gwynedd n/a n/a n/a n/a 4,553 4.2 4,081 4.1 Mid Glamorgan 9,347 4.3 9,459 3.8 11,221 4.4 10,501 4.2 Powys 2,290 4.8 2,254 4.1 3,283 5.4 n/a n/a South Glamorgan 4,519 3.1 5,406 3.2 3,920 2.3 2,696 1.7 West Glamorgan 5,245 3.6 5,131 3.2 6,293 3.7 4,586 3.0 Constant 1994–95 prices Clywd 6,948 3.9 8,625 4.4 8,449 4.1 7,722 4.7 Dyfed 6,779 4.3 5,861 3.5 8,664 4.8 6,989 4.3 Gwent n/a n/a 7,444 3.5 7,534 3.5 6,828 3.5 Gwynedd n/a n/a n/a n/a 4,775 4.2 4,155 4.1 Mid Glamorgan 10,838 4.3 10,323 3.8 11,767 4.4 10,691 4.2 Powys 2,655 4.8 2,460 4.1 3,443 5.4 n/a n/a South Glamorgan 5,240 3.1 5,900 3.2 4,111 2.3 2,745 1.7 West Glamorgan 6,081 3.6 5,600 3.2 6,599 3.7 4,669 3.0 1Excluding school catering.