§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 16 February,Official Report, column 735, if she will give the management and administration cost per pupil in each local education authority in England. [17134]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe following table provides the information requested, for the financial year 1995–96.
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LEA £ Avon 63 Barking and Dagenham 73 Barnet 48 Barnsley 14 Bedfordshire 39 Berkshire 37 Bexley 55 Birmingham 50 Bolton 28 Bradford 33 Brent 78 Bromley 63 Buckinghamshire 77 Bury 46 Calderdale 41 Cambridgeshire 33 Camden 113 Cheshire 29 Cleveland 54 Cornwall 29 Corporation of London 352 Coventry 39 Croydon 35 Cumbria 27 Derbyshire 25 Devon 33 Doncaster 42 Dorset 48 Dudley 25 Durham 39 Ealing 65 East Sussex 26 Enfield 57 Essex 40 Gateshead 47 Gloucestershire 49 Greenwich 93 Hackney 87 Hammersmith and Fulham 52 Hampshire 47 Haringey 49 Harrow 64 Havering 38 Hereford and Worcester 30 Hertfordshire 17 Hillingdon 96 Hounslow 47 Humberside 57 Isle of Wight 32 Isle of Scilly 95 Islington 79 Kensington and Chelsea 133 Kent 81 Kingston 61 Kirklees 46 Knowsley 23 Lambeth 160 Lancashire 35 Leeds 28
LEA £ Leicestershire 42 Lewisham 67 Lincolnshire 39 Liverpool 52 Manchester 49 Merton 42 Newcastle upon Tyne 59 Newham 51 Norfolk 18 North Tyneside 35 North Yorkshire 37 Northamptonshire 28 Northumberland 41 Nottinghamshire 43 Oldham 44 Oxfordshire 28 Redbridge 60 Richmond 33 Rochdale 39 Rotherham 64 Salford 59 Sandwell 35 Sefton 74 Sheffield 42 Shropshire 37 Solihull 11 Somerset 18 South Tyneside 34 Southwark 82 St. Helens 49 Staffordshire 20 Stockport 32 Suffolk 27 Sunderland 40 Surrey 51 Sutton 74 Tameside 32 Tower Hamlets 51 Trafford 37 Wakefield 35 Walsall 40 Waltham Forest 54 Wandsworth 125 Warwickshire 43 West Sussex 42 Westminster 108 Wigan 29 Wiltshire 31 Wirral 30 Wolverhampton 30 1. The figures have been calculated by dividing planned expenditure on management and adminsitration, as recorded in each LEA's LMS budget statement for 1995–96, by pupil numbers from the same source.
2. The amount per pupil is rounded to the nearest pound.