HC Deb 23 April 1996 vol 276 cc98-100W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each education authority in England, and by class and in total, the amount of balances held in reserve for each year since 1990. [25743]

Mr. Robin Squire

The following table shows all general fund reserves for each local authority with an education service in England since 1990.

Local Authority Reserves 1990–1995
Reserves (£000s) as at:
1 April 1990 1 April 1991 1 April 1992 1 April 1993 1 April 1994 1 April 1995
Barnsley 14,126 19,790 21,583 20,498 21,448 15,714
Doncaster 17,481 8,005 4,600 23,722 39,879 42,952
Rotherham 8,810 7,758 21,595 19,925 18,267 16,021
Sheffield 109,520 n/a 15,506 16,145 14,163 8,855
Gateshead 33,928 24,983 23,322 22,283 19,679 15,913
Newcastle upon Tyne -23,673 8,341 8,884 24,390 40,664 42,459
North Tyneside 6,771 3,924 2,872 3,154 10,265 11,906
South Tyneside 16,405 10,267 9,911 10,340 11,673 12,681
Sunderland 9,707 24,762 24,616 22,707 32,334 29,082
Birmingham 25,350 24,096 29,885 65,486 109,984 82,536
Coventry n/a 24,496 10,965 13,786 66,114 73,096
Dudley 10,778 11,682 17,479 17,115 31,813 29,580
Sandwell n/a n/a 7,274 20,491 34,366 30,821
Solihull 4,149 14,762 6,962 23,653 30,622 26,918
Walsall n/a 32,400 23,300 18,585 19,004 19,407
Wolverhampton 4,784 4,177 3,305 12,349 32,555 40,074
Bradford 5,815 3,474 4,831 10,900 22,936 20,392
Calderdale 5,705 11,592 8,309 10,999 12,708 12,546
Kirklees 12,028 14,806 7,408 16,674 26,300 32,022
Leeds 18,348 15,137 12,516 21,909 53,509 85,620
Wakefield 18,661 13,376 9,546 17,540 32,341 31,126
Metropolitan Districts Total 465,222 396,547 391,303 564,990 967,881 993,771
Avon 12,822 13,253 11,635 19,838 47,409 61,635
Bedfordshire 13,242 15,719 16,928 22,221 25,680 21,206
Berkshire 4,523 7,940 16,987 72,088 57,987 58,819
Buckinghamshire 26,726 n/a 27,457 38,018 46,770 50,081
Cambridgeshire 22,237 58,481 48,119 53,812 55,762 56,517
Cheshire 4,212 41,851 27,923 50,161 52,378 44,075
Cleveland 9,707 7,364 4,760 13,413 23,829 27,767
Cornwall 23,395 28,358 33,054 24,803 51,056 45,640
Cumbria 3,344 10,145 14,227 12,440 10,494 11,788
Derbyshire n/a n/a 11,296 21,139 24,475 22,961
Devon 46,838 52,755 47,889 47,073 45,104 36,269
Dorset 5,721 14,443 7,794 4,287 20,137 25,317
Durham 22,414 23,895 22,043 19,251 20,109 20,917
East Sussex 27,372 8,900 16,394 21,551 30,134 42,896
Essex 26,774 18,112 39,373 45,350 90,085 120,127
Gloucestershire 2,443 2,362 3,894 13,844 23,539 23,044
Hampshire 7,394 29,879 52,899 74,221 83,041 65,323
Hereford and Worcester 7,374 6,188 5,360 22,213 36,380 38,223
Hertfordshire 13,000 19,400 25,565 41,984 82,550 81,584
Humberside 19,402 27,547 27,684 24,972 35,196 37,084
Isle of Wight 1,301 4,990 4,143 4,696 5,042 9,471
Kent 19,813 30,397 20,461 33,915 62,181 67,061
Lancashire 12,831 21,305 26,241 69,365 72,617 60,777
Leicestershire 28,806 24,178 20,046 15,337 23,098 25,411
Lincolnshire 44,934 50,854 42,924 42,309 46,648 38,112
Norfolk 13,100 13,109 13,109 30,974 83,109 72,850
Northamptonshire 9,271 9,054 9,096 37,852 28,052 34,458
Northumberland 19,457 24,810 23,201 19,841 32,060 31,693
North Yorkshire 38,813 38,681 34,411 33,880 36,575 43,201
Nottinghamshire n/a n/a 6,500 81,609 73,785 44,740
Oxfordshire 16,242 10,516 12,041 25,595 48,373 33,892
Shropshire 9,681 13,745 9,911 12,357 33,228 26,129
Somerset 14,691 15,933 28,183 28,349 40,560 41,946
Staffordshire 13,175 17,145 16,492 20,690 69,377 88,370
Suffolk 9,712 9,824 16,051 34,508 36,838 37,959
Surrey 8,680 15,864 41,686 58,959 92,423 83,755
Warwickshire 19,224 12,815 7,370 32,239 33,849 27,230
West Sussex 39,480 7,169 7,919 27,924 29,374 31,685
Wiltshire n/a 25,406 9,444 19,995 39,906 41,309
Shire Counties Total 618,151 732,387 810,510 1,273,073 1,749,210 1,731,322
England Total 1,826,537 1,683,544 1,737,157 2,495,159 3,729,817 3,777,778