§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list each county's standard assessment funding per primary school pupil and per secondary school pupil and the average of all English and Welsh counties for this financial year. [36767]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe allocations per pupil for the 1995–96 education standard spending assessment for each English county, and the average allocation of all English counties, are set out in the table. There are no standard spending assessments for education in Wales, where county councils' SSAs include provision for education.
Unit SSA allocations 1995–96 £ County Primary per 5–10 pupil Secondary per 11–15 pupil Avon 1,838 2,460 Bedfordshire 1,995 2,664 Berkshire 1,988 2,664 Buckinghamshire 1,966 2,630 Cambridgeshire 1,876 2,508 Cheshire 1,817 2,408 Cleveland 1,940 2,589 Cornwall 1,893 2,522 Cumbria 1,856 2,470 Derbyshire 1,812 2,415 Devon 1,879 2,506 Dorset 1,833 2,440 Durham 1,884 2,512 East Sussex 2,000 2,672 Essex 1,989 2,647 Gloucestershire 1,836 2,435 Hampshire 1,930 2,575 Hereford and Worcester 1,827 2,439 Hertfordshire 2,010 2,663 Humberside 1,891 2,509 Isle of Wight 2,016 2,696 Kent 1,968 2,620 Lancashire 1,877 2,502 Leicestershire 1,864 2,483 Lincolnshire 1,873 2,483 Norfolk 1,881 2,508 North Yorkshire 1,827 2,422 Northamptonshire 1,836 2,448 Northumberland 1,825 2,421 Nottinghamshire 1,883 2,506 Oxfordshire 1,933 2,575 Shropshire 1,862 2,479 Somerset 1,846 2,489 Staffordshire 1,805 2,398 Suffolk 1,820 2,422 Surrey 1,998 2,679 Warwickshire 1,822 2,433 West Sussex 1,932 2,571 Wiltshire 1,835 2,451 Average for English Shire Counties 1,895 2,525