§ Sir David KnoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list local education authorities in rank order by the proportion of the potential schools' budget held back in the most recent year for which figures are available. [37670]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe following table provided the information requested, for the financial year 1995–96.
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Local education authority Percentage age not delegated Dudley 4.2 Hertfordshire 5.9 Solihull 6.0 Waltham Forest 6.1 Islington 6.1 Knowsley 6.1 Brent 6.5 Leeds 6.6 Berkshire 6.9 Northamptonshire 7.1 Rochdale 7.1 Staffordshire 7.2 Wigan 7.3 Greenwich 7.4 Liverpool 7.5 Sunderland 7.7 Manchester 8.0 Devon 8.1 Wolverhampton 8.1 Bury 8.2 North Tyneside 8.2 Cumbria 8.2 Havering 8.3 Oxfordshire 8.4 Norfolk 8.6 Coventry 8.7 Bedfordshire 8.8 Bexley 8.8 Gloucestershire 8.9 Somerset 8.9 Cheshire 9.1 Stockport 9.1 Tower Hamlets 9.1 Hereford and Worcester 9.2 Hammersmith and Fulham 9.2 Northumberland 9.2 Salford 9.3 Suffolk 9.4 Oldham 9.4 Redbridge 9.4 Richmond 9.6 Wirral 9.7 Walsall 9.7 Birmingham 9.7 Isle of Wight 9.8 Westminster 9.8 Sutton 9.8 Barnet 9.8 Harrow 9.9 Kensington and Chelsea 10.0 Croydon 10.0 Hillingdon 10.1 Ealing 10.1 North Yorkshire 10.2 Surrey 10.2 Dorset 10.3 Doncaster 10.3 Wiltshire 10.4 St. Helens 10.5 Lincolnshire 10.5 Cleveland 10.6 Enfield 10.6 Rotherham 10.6 Tameside 10.7 Derbyshire 10.7 Cambridgeshire 10.7 Kingston 10.8 Merton 10.8 South Tyneside 10.8 Barnsley 10.9 Calderdale 10.9 Barking and Dagenham 10.9 Essex 11.0 Cornwall 11.0 City 11.1
Local education authority Percentage age not delegated Bolton 11.1 East Sussex 11.1 West Sussex 11.1 Nottinghamshire 11.2 Hounslow 11.2 Humberside 11.3 Sefton 11.3 Trafford 11.4 Hampshire 11.4 Durham 11.5 Buckinghamshire 11.6 Leicestershire 11.6 Warwickshire 11.6 Newcastle upon Tyne 11.8 Shropshire 11.8 Sandwell 11.9 Avon 11.9 Southwark 12.0 Bradford 12.0 Wakefield 12.1 Sheffield 12.2 Bromley 12.2 Lancashire 12.3 Lewisham 12.4 Kent 12.5 Camden 12.6 Haringey 12.8 Kirklees 12.9 Hackney 13.1 Gateshead 13.4 Newham 13.5 Lambeth 13.6 Wandsworth 14.6 Isles of Scilly 14.9