HC Deb 01 February 1996 vol 270 cc905-6W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list, by local education authority, the total amount of balances held by schools in England according to the latest figures. [11747]

Mr. Robin Squire

The following table shows the aggregate balances held by the schools maintained by each local education authority in England at the end of the financial year 1994–95.

LEA School Balances £000
Avon 13,422
Barking and Dagenham 2,681
Barnet 4,763
Barnsley 2,795
Bedfordshire 7,512
Berkshire 8,334
Bexley 1,973
Birmingham 16,319
Bolton 2,416
Bradford 4,084
Brent 4,234
Bromley 3,036
Buckinghamshire 9,030
Bury 2,311
Calderdale 1,975
Cambridgeshire 8,784
Camden 4,737
Cheshire 15,314
City of London 54
Cleveland 8,611
Cornwall 9,007
Coventry 6,643
Croydon 4,905
Cumbria 2,026
Derbyshire 8,467
Devon 9,325
Doncaster 3,751
Dorset 6,635
Dudley 1,207
Durham 7,001
Ealing 2,393
East Sussex 8,218
Enfield 6,026
Essex 25,252
Gateshead 1,859
Gloucestershire 6,743
Greenwich 4,781
Hackney 2,324
Hammersmith and Fulham 2,493
Hampshire 25,921
Haringey 2,896
Harrow 1,693
Havering 4,445
Hereford and Worcester 12,294
Hertfordshire 20,832

LEA School Balances £
Hillingdon 2,297
Hounslow 4,963
Humberside 9,713
Isle of Wight 1,325
Isles of Scilly 43
Islington 3,394
Kensington and Chelsea 1,155
Kent 14,553
Kingston 890
Kirklees 2,825
Knowsley 2,216
Lambeth 5,308
Lancashire 32,096
Leeds 3,892
Leicestershire 13,154
Lewisham 3,921
Lincolnshire 7,178
Liverpool 7,705
Manchester -1,365
Merton 4,503
Newcastle 5,443
Newham 4,640
Norfolk 9,262
North Tyneside 439
North Yorkshire 11,543
Northamptonshire 10,061
Northumberland 3,075
Nottinghamshire 14,959
Oldham 516
Oxfordshire 11,955
Redbridge 3,111
Richmond 2,648
Rochdale 577
Rotherham 1,101
Salford 3,048
Sandwell 5,420
Sefton 6,049
Sheffield 3,619
Shropshire 4,864
Solihull 4,253
Somerset 7,678
South Tyneside 1,898
Southwark 3,852
St. Helens 4,163
Staffordshire 12,381
Stockport 3,456
Suffolk 11,487
Sunderland 1,781
Surrey 12,109
Sutton 2,092
Tameside 1,293
Tower Hamlets 6,733
Trafford 556
Wakefield 3,135
Walsall 2,807
Waltham Forest 3,857
Wandsworth 3,567
Warwickshire 6,987
West Sussex 4,489
Westminster 2,928
Wigan 5,320
Wiltshire 6,549
Wirral 2,572
Wolverhampton 4,036

1. The figures (derived from the LMS outturn statements for 1994–95 published by LEAs under section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988) cover all county, voluntary and special schools. Prior to 1994–95 special schools were covered by LMS only in the case of 8 LEAs

2. All figures represent surpluses net of deficits.