§ Mr. LuffTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps he is taking to apply his policy of fair funding of education to the county of Hereford and Worcester. [7826]
§ Mr. ByersWe are reviewing the education SSA methodology on which the distribution of revenue support grant to local education authorities will be based in 1998–99. Consultative meetings between central and local government representatives are taking place over the summer leading up to the compilation of a report on options for possible SSA changes in the autumn.
§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what additional amount would need to be spent(a) by each local education authority and (b) in total if the rate at which grants for education support and training are payable changed from 60 per cent. to 50 per cent. without change in his Department's planned expenditure for 1998-99; and if he will make a statement. [8886]
§ Mr. Byers[holding answer 15 July 1997]: Plans for 1998–99 GEST programme and its funding have yet to be finalised. The following table shows the increase in each LEA's contribution for the 1997–98 programme if grants currently paid at 60 per cent. were paid at 50 per cent. and the DfEE's contribution remained the same.
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GEST 1997–98 Comparison of 60 per cent. grant rate with 50 per cent. grant rate Local education authority LEA's additional contribution £000s City of London 6.6 Caraden 179.2 Greenwich 272.4 Hackney 272.7 Hammersmith 130.4 Islington 286.0 Kensington and Chelsea 108.6 Lambeth 212.6 Lewisham 339.8 Southwark 314.9 Tower Hamlets 373.4 Wandsworth 253.5 Westminster 147.1 Barking 212.6 Barnet 188.1 Bexley 197.2 Brent 257.3 Bromley 185.1 Croydon 266.6 Ealing 276.9 Enfield 348.8 Haringey 299.6 Harrow 157.9 Havering 196.6 Hillingdon 164.5 Hounslow 240.9 Kingston upon Thames 103.0 Merton 185.8 Newham 355.6 Redbridge 221.8 Richmond upon Thames 129.4 Sutton 146.7 Waltham Forest 276.5 Birmingham 1,158.3 Coventry 477.3 Dudley 316.4 Sandwell 359.5 Solihull 229.9 Walsall 372.6 Wolverhampton 382.1 Knowsley 212.7 Liverpool 683.2 St. Helens 194.8 Sefton 238.2 Wirral 408.0 Bolton 334.3 Bury 191.2 Manchester 588.1 Oldham 262.4 Rochdale 251.6 Salford 249.2 Stockport 303.2 Tameside 248.1 Trafford 224.5 Wigan 383.9 Barnsley 308.3 Doncaster 361.2 Rotherham 302.7 Sheffield 514.0 Bradford 642.6 Calderdale 197.9 Kirklees 514.4 Leeds 877.3 Wakefield 388.3 Gateshead 225.7 Newcastle upon Tyne 368.5 North Tyneside 280.4 South Tyneside 188.3 Sunderland 310.5 Isles of Scilly 10.4
GEST 1997–98 Comparison of 60 per cent. grant rate with 50 per cent. grant rate Local education authority LEA's additional contribution £000s Bath and North-east Somerset 93.7 City of Bristol 350.9 North-west Somerset 206.5 South Gloucestershire 301.1 Hartlepool 144.9 Middlesbrough 181.4 Redcar and Cleveland 205.9 Stockton on Tees 223.9 City of Kingston upon Hull 351.4 East Riding of Yorkshire 359.1 North-east Lincolnshire 181.4 North Lincolnshire 179.5 North Yorkshire 647.6 York 227.4 Bedfordshire 455.9 Luton 191.3 Buckinghamshire 479.6 Milton Keynes 228.1 Derbyshire 863.5 Derby 203.2 Dorset 347.7 Poole 103.9 Bournemouth 121.2 Durham 652.0 Darlington 105.8 East Sussex 438.5 Brighton and Hove 203.2 Hampshire 1,126.3 Portsmouth 147.7 Southampton 184.2 Leicestershire 547.2 Leicester 309.2 Rutland 32.0 Staffordshire 875.1 Stoke on Trent 323.9 Wiltshire 378.7 Swindon (Thamesdown) 190.8 Berkshire 722.4 Cambridgeshire 678.6 Cheshire 1,086.5 Cornwall 520.4 Cumbria 550.7 Devon 1,118.1 Essex 1,131.9 Gloucestershire 445.8 Hereford and Worcester 676.1 Hertfordshire 1,012.2 Isle of Wight 177.2 Kent 1,362.9 Lancashire 1,624.9 Lincolnshire 531.4 Norfolk 818.3 Northamptonshire 626.9 Northumberland 358.4 Nottinghamshire 997.3 Oxfordshire 613.8 Shropshire 453.4 Somerset 491.9 Suffolk 673.1 Surrey 724.7 Warwickshire 506.5 West Sussex 678.9 England 51,578.1
§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what estimate he has made of the level in constant prices of education spending per school pupil308W in (a) England and (b) each English LEA for (i) 1997–98, (ii) 1998–99 and (iii) 1999–00 assuming that all of the additional funding allocated to education in the Budget is spent on education. [8584]
§ Mr. Byers[holding answer 15 July 1997]: For 1997–98, net Education Standard Spending (ESS) for England equates to £2,382 per pupil. In 1998–99, at constant prices, this will rise to £2,499. Allocations for each LEA in the form of Standard Spending Assessments for 1988–89 will be made in the Autumn. Figures for 1999–00 will be determined nearer the time. ESS is not prescriptive: LEAs are free to spend more or less, in the light of their own view of priorities.