HC Deb 30 October 1996 vol 284 cc129-32W
Sir David Knox

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list local education authorities in rank order by the proportion of the potential schools budget held back in the most recent year for which figures are available. [1025]

Mr. Robin Squire

The following table sets out in rank order, for each LEA in England, the proportion of the potential schools budget not delegated to schools. These figures are derived from LEAs' local management of schools budget statements for 1996–97, incorporating any amendments notified to the Department by 30 September 1996.

Rank Local education authority Percentage of PSB not delegated
1. Dudley 3.9
2. Brent 5.4
3. Solihull 5.6
4. Waltham Forest 6.1
5. Islington 6.1
6. Sunderland 6.2
7. Leeds 6.3
8. Hertfordshire 6.4
9. Berkshire 6.5
10. Isles of Scilly 6.7
11. Rochdale 6.7
12. Greenwich 6.9
13. Knowsley 6.9
14. Staffordshire 7.0
Rank Local education authority Percentage of PSB not delegated
15. Northamptonshire 7.1
16. Wigan 7.1
17. Liverpool 7.3
18. Suffolk 7.4
19. Bury 7.5
20. Bedfordshire 7.6
21. Wolverhampton 7.8
22. Havering 7.9
23. North Tyneside 8
24. Oxfordshire 8.0
25. Redbridge 8.1
26. Bexley 8.1
27. Shropshire 8.2
28. Manchester 8.2
29. Sutton 8.6
30. Croydon 8.7
31. Birmingham 8.7
32. Cumbria 8.7
33. Richmond 8.7
34. Cheshire 8.7
35. Gloucestershire 8.8
36. Hamrnersmith/Fulham 8.8
37. Devon 8.8
38. Norfolk 8.8
39. Somerset 8.8
40. Stockport 8.8
41. Hampshire 8.9
42. Northumberland 8.9
43. Coventry 9.1
44. Kingston 9.2
45. Oldham 9.3
46. Bristol 9.3
47. Wirral 9.3
48. Kensington/Chelsea 9.3
49. Salford 9.4
50. North Yorkshire 9.5
51. Barking/Dagenham 9.5
52. Surrey 9.5
53. Ealing 9.5
54. Stockton on Tees 9.6
55. Hereford/Worcester 9.7
56. Enfield 9.8
57. Hillingdon 9.8
58. Essex 9.9
59. Harrow 9.9
60. East Sussex 9.9
61. Hounslow 10
62. Wiltshire 10
63. St. Helens 10.1
64. Walsall 10.1
65. Tameside 10.1
66. Corporation of London 10.1
67. North East Lincolnshire 10.2
68. Isle of Wight 10.2
69. Hull 10.2
70. Warwickshire 10.2
71. Lewisham 10.2
72. South Gloucestershire 10.2
73. Bath and North East Somerset 10.3
74. Bradford 10.3
75. Dorset 10.3
76. Merton 10.3
77. East Riding 10.4
78. Rotherham 10.4
79. North Somerset 10.4
80. Tower Hamlets 10.5
81. Cambridgeshire 10.5
82. Wandsworth 10.5
83. Barnet 10.6
84. Westminster 10.6
85. Hackney 10.6
86. Sefton 10.6
87. Southwark 10.7
Rank Local education authority Percentage of PSB not delegated
88. Lincolnshire 10.7
89. Derbyshire 10.8
90. West Sussex 10.8
91. Sandwell 10.8
92. Calderdale 10.9
93. Buckinghamshire 10.9
94. Hartlepool 10.9
95. Newcastle 11.0
96. Kirklees 11.0
97. Kent 11.0
98. York 11.0
99. Redcar and Cleveland 11.1
100. Nottinghamshire 11.1
101. South Tyneside 11.1
102. Lancashire 11.1
103. North Lincolnshire 11.2
104. Barnsley 11.3
105. Durham 11.4
106. Bolton 11.5
107. Trafford 11.5
108. Cornwall 11.7
109. Camden 11.8
110. Middlesbrough 12.0
111. Leicestershire 12.0
112. Doncaster 12.1
113. Lambeth 12.6
114. Sheffield 12.6
115. Wakefield 12.8
116. Bromley 13.1
117. Gateshead 13.2
118. Haringey 13.6
119. Newham 14.9

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