HC Deb 13 January 1997 vol 288 cc68-9W
Sir Peter Emery

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list in percentage terms the amount of the education standard spending assessment(a) distributed directly to schools and (b) retained by the local education authority indicating the sum of each amount transferred to the county for each of the county authorities. [9745]

Mr. Robin Squire

Local education authorities are free to set education budgets higher or lower than their education standard spending assessments—SSAs. As education SSAs are not earmarked, there is no prescribed proportion for delegation to schools, or deployment by the authority for other purposes. The table sets out, for each shire county LEA unaffected by local government re-organisation,

  1. (a) its education SSA,
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  2. (b) its adjusted aggregated schools budget—ASB—representing the funding to be distributed directly to schools, and
  3. (c) the adjusted ASB as a percentage of the SSA.

The figures are for 1996–97.

Education SSA £ million Adjusted ASB £ million Adjusted ASB as percentage of SSA
Bedfordshire 220.156 165.703 75.3
Berkshire 282.308 211.899 75.1
Buckinghamshire 252.855 182.777 72.3
Cambridgeshire 237.278 180.996 76.3
Cheshire 348.970 282.632 81.0
Cornwall 164.930 120.886 73.3
Cumbria 170.602 136.829 80.2
Derbyshire 319.922 243.069 76.0
Devon 345.862 260.300 75.3
Dorset 207.427 155.123 74.8
Durham 216.644 159.569 73.7
East Sussex 219.761 170.270 77.5
Essex 566.981 451.469 79.6
Gloucestershire 183.797 143.271 78.0
Hampshire 525.153 436.658 83.1
Hereford and
Worcester 229.005 172.192 75.2
Hertfordshire 387.245 318.261 82.2
Kent 581.733 462.400 79.5
Lancashire 510.448 386.353 75.7
Leicestershire 333.840 257.073 77.0
Lincolnshire 213.026 175.552 82.4
Norfolk 243.384 199.426 81.9
Northamptonshire 222.270 179.817 80.9
Northumberland 113.513 88.719 78.2
Nottinghamshire 365.135 270.030 74.0
Oxfordshire 192.571 141.698 73.6
Shropshire 145.332 113.234 77.9
Somerset 150.908 120.837 80.1
Staffordshire 366.019 283.219 77.4
Suffolk 217.470 178.819 82.2
Surrey 307.474 243.503 79.2
Warwickshire 164.025 131.492 80.2
West Sussex 235.410 183.856 78.1
Wiltshire 197.517 156.683 79.3

Adjusted ASB includes both the aggregated schools budget for LEA schools, and the annual maintenance grant paid to grant-maintained schools.