HC Deb 16 October 1996 vol 282 cc980-1W
Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list for each of the last six years the amount spent by each local education authority on discretionary awards and the number of students receiving them by LEA and year. [41164]

Mr. Jonathan Evans

The information requested for the academic years 1989–90 to 1994–95, the latest year for which data are available, is given for the LEAs current at the time in the following table.

Discretionary awards: students domiciled in Wales1
Academic years 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
Number Expenditure (£000) Number Expenditure (£000) Number Expenditure (£000) Number Expenditure (£000 Number Expenditure (£000) Number Expenditure (£000)
Clwyd 1,114 1,771.7 1,172 1,948.7 2,595 4,348.8 3,174 2,092.6 1,889 1,018.5 518 800.0
Dyfed 2,029 1,915.4 2,077 2,445.1 2,049 2,159.2 1,595 1,893.4 988 817.2 792 235.0
Gwent 309 853.2 260 827.1 332 1,089.7 4,652 3,924.4 4,583 3,392.5 5,273 3,066.6
Gwynedd 2,242 798.3 2,351 1,059.8 3,028 1,384.4 3,215 1,176.6 3,234 1,189.3 3,347 999.2
Mid Glamorgan 3,450 1,591.4 3,370 1,480 4,671 4,462.6 5,122 4,941.7 3,612 1,583.8 3,569 1,263.2
Powys 665 785.1 702 947.3 829 1,127.2 782 1,002.5 656 646.9 642 577.7
South Glamorgan 602 1,214.3 771 1,508.0 845 1,511.3 2,829 1,002.2 3,665 1,235.7 3,145 791.3
West Glamorgan 312 849.7 396 1,039.1 455 1,318.6 311 983.1 902 964.5 798 577.5
Total2 10,723 9,779.2 11,099 11,255.2 14,804 17,402 21,711 17,049.0 19,529 10,848.5 18,185 8,410.5

Source:F503G. Department for Education and Employment.

1 Awards made by local education authorities to students normally domiciled in Wales irrespective of their place of study: includes placement year sandwich students.

2 Totals have been grossed to compensate for partial or missing returns.