HC Deb 16 October 1996 vol 282 cc989-91W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for education and Employment what is the education budget and what proportion has been delegated to schools in the current financial year, in each English and Welsh local education authority; and if she will make a statement. [40590]

Mr. Robin Squire

The following table shows, for each local education authority in England, the amount of the potential schools budget and the percentage delegated to schools. The figures related to the financial year 1996–97. Information regarding the funding os schools in wales is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

Local education authority PSB £,000 Percentage PSB delegated
Barking/Dagenham 61,126 90.5
Barnet 75,939 89.4
Barnsley 61,681 88.7
Bath and North-east Somerset 48,609 89.7
Bedfordshire 152,251 92.4
Berkshire 195,984 93.5
Bexley 60,283 91.9
Birmingham 345,728 91.3
Bolton 80,692 88.5
Bradford 150,477 89.7
Brent 47,858 94.6
Bristol 112,495 90.7
Bromley 44,048 86.9
Buckinghamshire 174,158 89.1
Bury 54,406 92.5
Calderdale 427,64 89.1
Cambridgeshire 159,124 89.5
Camden 57,003 88.2
Cheshire 301,969 91.3
Cornwall 136,921 88.3
Corporation of London 761 89.9
Coventry 106,109 90.9
Croydon 75,817 91.3
Cumbria 113,416 91.3
Derbyshire 222,302 89.2
Devon 270,890 91.2
Doncaster 102,611 87.9
Dorset 144,951 89.7
Dudley 78,438 96.1
Local education authority PSB £000 Percentage PSB delegated
Durham 180,197 88.6
Ealing 71,556 90.5
East Riding 96,389 89.6
East Sussex 189,069 90.1
Enfield 81,133 90.2
Essex 278,140 90.1
Gateshead 63,294 86.8
Gloucestershire 92,634 91.2
Greenwich 89,798 93.1
Hackney 66,319 89.4
Hammersmith/Fulham 39,290 91.2
Hampshire 424,463 91.1
Haringey 77,147 86.4
Harrow 64,591 90.1
Hartlepoool 30,587 89.1
Havering 65,236 92.1
Hereford/Worcester 182,361 90.3
Hertfordshire 271,592 93.6
Hillingdon 43,534 90.2
Hounslow 74,553 90.0
Hull 82,212 89.8
Isle of Wight 37,173 89.8
Isles of Scilly 902 93.3
Islington 58,608 93.9
Kensington/Chelsea 26,852 90.7
Kent 344,908 89.0
Kingston 32,964 90.8
Kirklees 116,341 89.0
Knowsley 56,775 93.1
Lambeth 53,359 87.4
Lancashire 414,077 88.9
Leeds 220,601 93.7
Leicestershire 281,645 88.0
Lewisham 82,202 89.9
Lincolnshire 131,670 89.3
Liverpool 152,041 92.7
Manchester 143,067 91.8
Merton 48,209 89.7
Middlesbrough 50,342 88.0
North-east Lincolnshire 56,063 89.8
Newcastle 83,740 89.0
Newham 91,614 85.1
Norfolk 186,841 91.2
North Lincolnshire 51,172 88.8
North Somerset 56,162 89.6
North Tyneside 58,734 92.0
North Yorkshire 168,846 90.5
Northamptonshire 163,777 92.9
Northumberland 95,647 91.1
Nottinghamshire 296,611 88.9
Oldham 83,982 90.7
Oxfordshire 154,956 92.0
Redbridge 78,182 91.9
Redcar and Cleveland 50,199 88.9
Richmond 42,377 91.3
Rochdale 57,693 93.3
Rotherham 86,343 89.6
Salford 71,365 90.6
Sandwell 98,885 89.2
Sefton 95,490 89.4
Sheffield 134,029 87.4
Shropshire 110,326 91.8
Solihull 67,562 94.4
Somerset 129,049 91.2
South Gloucestershire 77,194 89.8
South Tyneside 48,326 88.9
Southwark 70,401 89.3
St Helens 59,467 89.9
Staffordshire 293,568 93.0
Stockport 81,968 91.2
Stockton on Tees 63,165 90.4
Suffolk 193,131 92.6
Local education authority PSB £,000 Percentage PSB delegated
Sunderland 95,675 93.8
Surrey 215,844 90.5
Sutton 37,808 91.4
Tameside 60,908 89.9
Tower Hamlets 86,792 89.5
Trafford 53,731 88.5
Wakefield 96,044 87.2
Walsall 78,003 89.9
Waltham Forest 69,543 93.9
Wandsworth 53,758 89.5
Warwickshire 129,650 89.8
West Sussex 205,497 89.2
Westminster 46,245 89.4
Wigan 102,072 92.9
Wiltshire 127,525 90.0
Wirral 101,837 90.7
Wolverhampton 76,544 92.2
York 46,598 89.0

1. The Potential Schools Budget (PSB) is the yardstick usually employed to measure the level of delegation achieved by LEAs. The PSB represents the total planned expenditure on schools maintained by an LEA less certain items which have been considered impracticable or undesirable to delegate.

2. The figures are derived from those provided by each LEA in its statement of planned financial expenditure produced under section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988 and incorporate revisions notified to the Department up to 30 September 1996.