HC Deb 09 February 1996 vol 271 cc379-80W
Mrs. Peacock

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of each of the shire counties education budgets is currently spent on(a) school and (b) non-school expenditure; and what amount of money this represents per school pupil in each case. [14577]

Mr. Robin Squire

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave to my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Mr. Jopling) on 13 December 1995,Official Report, columns 698–700.

Mrs. Peacock

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of each of the London borough's education budgets is currently spent on(a) schools and (b) non-school expenditure together with the amount of money this represents per school pupil in each case. [14578]

Mr. Squire

The following table shows for each London borough the percentage of net recurrent expenditure in 1993–94, the latest year for which figures are available, on:(a) pre-primary, primary, secondary and special schools; and (b) other education services, including education other than at school, adult education, continuing education, discretionary awards, youth and other community services, service strategy and regulation and education support services. The table also shows the amount per pupil which this expenditure represents, though in the case of non-schools expenditure school pupils are not the principal clients.

London boroughs expenditure on education and its cost per pupil pre-primary/primary, secondary and special
Net recurrent expenditure 1993–94
Percentage of expenditure (a) Cost per pupil Percentage of expenditure (b) Cost per pupil
Corporation of
London 45 3,509 55 4,336
Camden 85 2,353 15 430
Greenwich 88 2,510 12 351
Hackney 87 3,803 13 588
Hammersmith and Fulham 74 2,996 26 1,028
Islington 89 3,232 11 398
Kensington and Chelsea 80 3,560 20 883
Lambeth 70 3,626 30 1,586
Lewisham 92 2,963 8 248
Southwark 81 2,685 19 625
Tower Hamlets 91 3,349 9 319
Wandsworth 79 2,861 21 774
City of Westminster 78 2,674 22 772
Barking 90 2,168 10 252
Barnet 96 2,374 4 88
Bexley 94 2,103 6 130
Brent 91 2,979 9 283
Bromley 89 1,952 11 238
Croydon 84 2,423 16 467
Ealing 91 2,863 9 295
Enfield 94 2,414 6 161
Haringey 95 3,208 5 180
Harrow 92 2,473 8 207
Havering 95 2,124 5 112
Hillingdon 95 2,572 5 148
Hounslow 93 2,309 7 164
Kingston upon Thames 88 2,130 12 279
Merton 90 2,427 10 284
Newham 93 2,543 7 203
Redbridge 94 2,411 6 142
Richmond upon Thames 85 1,869 15 319
Sutton 90 2,114 10 243
Waltham Forest 87 2,648 13 408
Total 88 2,624 12 351

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