HC Deb 10 February 1997 vol 290 cc54-5W
Mr. Hendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list, in descending order, the proportion of the general schools budget not delegated to schools for each shire county education authority in the most recent year for which figures are available. [15161]

Mr. Robin Squire

The table gives the information requested and is derived from the local management of schools budget statements for 1996–97 produced by local education authority under section 122 of the Education Act 1996, formerly section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988.

Local education authority Percentage of general schools budget not delegated
Warwickshire 33.4
Cambridgeshire 32.4
Buckinghamshire 31.4
Cornwall 30.2
Oxfordshire 29.5
Derbyshire 29.3
Shropshire 28.8
Surrey 28.0

Local education authority Percentage of general schools budget not delegated
Norfolk 28.0
Dorset 27.0
Lancashire 26.9
Gloucestershire 26.7
Wiltshire 26.5
Bedfordshire 26.4
Cumbria 26.1
Nottinghamshire 26.1
Durham 25.9
East Sussex 25.8
Kent 25.6
Northamptonshire 25.1
Hereford/Worcester 25.0
Lincolnshire 24.9
Northumberland 24.7
Essex 24.5
Devon 24.4
Leicestershire 23.8
Isle of Wight 23.6
Berkshire 23.2
Hampshire 23.1
Cheshire 23.0
West Sussex 22.6
Straffordshire 22.5
Somerset 22.1
Hertfordshire 20.9
North Yorkshire 20.8
Suffolk 20.6