§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the expenditure on(a) building maintenance and (b) education of each authority indicating (i) grant and (ii) private finance initiative funding received for each of the last five financial years; and if he will make a statement. [12867]
§ Mr. HagueThe latest available complete information is outturn expenditure on education from 1990–91 to 1994–95 as reported to the Welsh Office by county councils. The information provided is split between revenue expenditure—tables 1 and 2—and capital expenditure—table 3. No information is available relating to capital expenditure on building maintenance. There were reductions in expenditure from 1992–93 to 1993–94 due to the transfer of responsibility for the funding for further education from local authorities to the Further Education Funding Council for Wales.
Central Government support for local authorities' revenue expenditure is provided mainly by way of revenue support grant and shares of redistributed non-domestic rates. This support is unhypothecated, therefore allocations in respect of individual functions or services such as education do not exist.
Additional support for revenue expenditure is provided by specific grants which are paid in relation to expenditure on a particular project or service. Details of those specific grants relating to education are given in table 4.
45WThere were no PFI projects in the education sector for the given years.
Table 1: Local authority net current expenditure on building maintenance relating to education1 £ thousand County council 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 Clwyd 4,067 6,278 5,204 5,258 6,081 Dyfed 4,874 5,109 5,506 3,956 3,396 Gwent 6,020 6,974 7,805 7,269 7,739 Gwynedd 3,310 3,506 3,173 3,252 3,302 Mid Glamorgan 13,060 14,711 13,487 13,873 11,483 Powys 1,807 2,262 2,910 1,163 1,116 South Glamorgan 5,406 7,036 7,353 6,422 5,638 West Glamorgan 8,036 8,781 7,584 6,649 8,299 Total 46,580 54,657 53,022 47,842 47,054 1 Excludes grant-maintained schools. Includes salaries of building maintenance workers and groundsmen, cost of materials, recharges by external agencies, charges from Direct Service Organisations, architects, engineers and surveyors and expenditure on energy conservation and on health and safety. Also includes contract charges (including those relating to compulsory competitive tendering arrangements). Excludes salaries of caretakers and cleaners.
Table 2: Total local authority net current expenditure on education1 County council 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 Clwyd 154,657 178,834 195,345 160,976 160,112 Dyfed 136,240 151,794 170,467 158,564 160,143 Gwent 170,821 193,197 207,286 193,322 190,771 Gwynedd 87,832 100,404 107,934 99,843 98,634 Mid Glamorgan 218,630 251,858 256,235 247,629 239,595 Powys 48,177 55,434 61,116 54,644 55,695 South Glamorgan 147,628 167,959 174,219 160,892 155,910 West Glamorgan 145,873 161,342 171,692 154,151 157,234 Total 1,109,858 1,260,822 1,344,294 1,230,021 1,218,094 1 Excludes grant maintained schools and expenditure on school catering. 46W
Table 3: Total local authority gross capital expenditure on education1 County council 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 Clwyd 7,445 8,446 6,911 8,500 8,563 Dyfed 6,711 7,151 6,706 4,175 5,730 Gwent 9,597 6,727 10,704 5,946 6,405 Gwynedd 2,678 3,403 3,069 2,041 2,172 Mid Glamorgan 8,555 9,014 7,825 4,677 8,036 Powys 2,340 3,393 5,359 3,575 2,971 South Glamorgan 7,869 11,723 10,243 6,781 10,325 West Glamorgan 6,649 6,362 6,941 4,942 8,130 Total 51,844 56,219 57,758 40,637 52,332 1 Excludes grant maintained schools.
Table 4: Specific government revenue grants to local education authorities1 £ thousand County council 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 Clwyd 15,095 21,937 25,494 25,866 21,979 Dyfed 15,657 21,578 25,794 26,129 22,885 Gwent 16,335 23,517 28,682 28,454 24,030 Gwynedd 11,047 15,830 17,098 17,559 15,286 Mid Glamorgan 15,888 24,160 27,515 28,868 17,837 Powys 4,488 6,690 8,042 7,782 6,734 South Glamorgan 16,385 23,526 28,608 29,460 25,002 West Glamorgan 14,920 20,666 23,508 23,210 19,994 Total 109,815 157,904 184,741 187,328 153,747 Includes mandatory student awards, grants for education support and training, Welsh language education, education of travel and displaced persons, education of commonwealth immigrants. Training Agency and work related further education.