HC Deb 17 October 1995 vol 264 cc237-9W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the average expenditure per primary school and per secondary school pupil of(a) all London boroughs, (b) all metropolitan counties and (c) all other English and Welsh counties. [36773]

Mr. Robin Squire

The table sets out for each local education authority in England and Wales the net institutional expenditure per pupil in LEA-maintained pre-primary/primary and secondary schools for the latest year for which figures are available.

Cost per pupil in LEA-maintained schools
1993–94
Net institutional expenditure per pupil Pre-primary/primary £ Secondary £
London boroughs
Corporation of London 3,587 0
Camden 2,047 2,716
Greenwich 2,009 2,583
Hackney 1,958 2,617
Hammersmith 2,534 3,329
Islington 2,719 3,005
Kensington and Chelsea 2,394 3,266
Lambeth 2,666 3,296
Lewisham 2,058 2,614
Southwark 1,806 2,421
Tower Hamlets 2,656 3,157
Wandsworth 2,139 2,795
Westminster 2,592 2,739
Barking 1,790 2,355
Barnet 2,006 2,952
Bexley 1,573 2,341
Brent 1,633 1,835
Bromley 1,525 2,280
Croydon 1,793 2,309
Ealing 1,915 2,575
Enfield 1,768 2,531
Haringey 2,236 3,041
Harrow 1,913 2,439
Havering 1,636 2,290
Hillingdon 1,804 2,670
Hounslow 1,935 2,405
Kingston upon Thames 1,728 2,284
Merton 1,853 2,463
Newham 1,708 2,563
Redbridge 1,640 2,526
Richmond upon Thames 1,794 2,280
Sutton 1,639 1,978
Waltham Forest 1,821 2,526
Metropolitan counties
Birmingham 1,572 2,330
Coventry 1,684 2,469
Dudley 1,490 2,098
Sandwell 1,681 2,349
Solihull 1,574 2,217
Walsall 1,672 2,281
Wolverhampton 1,357 2,300
Knowsley 1,485 2,243
Liverpool 1,586 2,613
St. Helens 1,605 2,315
Cost per pupil in LEA-maintained schools
1993–94
Net institutional expenditure per pupil Pre-primary/primary £ Secondary £
Sefton 1,448 2,204
Wirral 1,552 2,299
Bolton 1,581 2,119
Bury 1,432 1,979
Manchester 1,547 2,328
Oldham 1,645 2,278
Rochdale 1,307 1,974
Salford 1,505 2,215
Stockport 1,466 2,310
Tameside 1,442 2,095
Trafford 1,428 2,156
Wigan 1,437 2,141
Barnsley 1,539 2,101
Doncaster 1,425 2,022
Rotherham 1,723 2,271
Sheffield 1,573 2,119
Bradford 1,654 1,969
Calderdale 1,607 2,162
Kirklees 1,579 2,207
Leeds 1,647 2,164
Wakefield 1,577 2,150
Gateshead 1,664 2,252
Newcastle upon Tyne 1,697 2,187
North Tyneside 1,469 1,995
South Tyneside 1,463 1,948
Sunderland 1,509 2,114
Other counties
Avon 1,571 2,288
Bedfordshire 1,639 2,103
Berkshire 1,592 2,214
Buckinghamshire 1,735 2,286
Cambridgeshire 1,534 1,956
Cheshire 1,483 2,106
Cleveland 1,461 2,129
Cornwall 1,535 2,160
Cumbria 1,667 2,216
Derbyshire 1,600 2,214
Devon 1,503 2,157
Dorset 1,485 2,065
Durham 1,664 2,114
East Sussex 1,643 2,270
Essex 1,724 2,286
Gloucestershire 1,523 2,084
Hampshire 1,583 2,180
Hereford and Worcester 1,617 2,038
Hertfordshire 1,664 2,245
Humberside 1,621 2,257
Isles of Scilly 2,401 4,415
Isle of Wight 1,598 2,027
Kent 1,397 2,079
Lancashire 1,669 2,347
Leicestershire 1,629 2,263
Lincolnshire 1,496 2,322
Norfolk 1,585 2,309
North Yorkshire 1,555 2,187
Northamptonshire 1,522 2,125
Northumberland 1,686 2,083
Nottinghamshire 1,653 2,381
Oxfordshire 1,765 2,191
Shropshire 1,577 2,354
Somerset 1,583 2,138
Staffordshire 1,534 2,078
Suffolk 1,673 2,190
Surrey 1,701 2,215
Warwickshire 1,555 2,420
West Sussex 1,579 2,467
Wiltshire 1,521 2,379
England 1,630 2,245

Cost per pupil in LEA-maintained schools
1993–94
Net institutional expenditure per pupil Pre-primary/primary £ Secondary £
Welsh counties1
Clywd 1,534 2,357
Dyfed 1,859 2,258
Gwent 1,531 2,363
Gwynedd 1,725 2,503
Mid Glamorgan 1,626 2,427
Powys 1,782 2,224
South Glamorgan 1,552 2,228
West Glamorgan 1,854 2,592
Wales 1,657 2,375
1 1992–93 at constant 1993–94 prices.

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the average unit cost per pupil for part-time provision in(a) nursery schools, (b) nursery classes in primary schools and (c) playgroups, at the latest available date. [36175]

Mr. Robin Squire

The table shows estimates of unit costs in maintained schools for 1993–94, based on the assumption that part-time pupils attend for half the normal attendance time of full-time pupils, and, on average, cost half as much as a full-time pupil.

1993–94 estimated unit costs £
Full-time equivalent Part-time (50 per cent.)
Nursery school 3,250 1,625
Nursery class in primary school 2,660 1,330

Note:

Because expenditure returns do not distinguish spending on nursery schools and classes from other primary school spending, the figures above are estimates based on apportionment of total expenditure.

Unit costs in play groups are not collected centrally.