School Funding (Hansard, 16 October 1996)

§ 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

990W

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

991W

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.