HL Deb 30 June 1997 vol 581 cc10-2WA
Lord Tope

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What is the level of balances held by:

  1. (a) primary schools; and
  2. (b) secondary schools;

for each LEA at the end of 1996–97.

Baroness Blackstone

The information requested is not yet available for 1996–97. The following table sets out the corresponding information for 1995–96 in respect of primary and secondary schools maintained by local education authorities, in England.

Primary and Secondary School Balances LEAs—England 1995–96
Primary Secondary
(£000s) (£000s)
Avon n/a n/a
Barking & Dagenham 1,841 936
Barnet 2,926 1,302
Barnsley 1,486 537
Bedfordshire 3,818 2,174
Berkshire 4,960 1,481
Bexley 907 610
Birmingham 10,025 2,682
Bolton 2,257 327
Bradford 2,282 1,175
Brent 3,631 -263
Bromley 2,235 115
Buckinghamshire 5,317 2,315
Bury 1,511 685
Calderdale 1,250 485
Cambridgeshire 5,730 1,896
Camden 2,831 1,630
Cheshire 8,589 4,911
Cleveland 5,417 2,080
Cornwall 5,105 3,414
Corporation of London -3 0
Coventry 4,272 2,417
Croydon 2,331 764
Cumbria 1,298 -200
Derbyshire 5,231 1,339
Devon 4,548 2,222
Doncaster 2,835 959
Dorset 3,142 532
Dudley 1,024 382
Durham 4,949 2,689
Ealing 2,466 328
East Sussex 3,946 2,966
Enfield 3,105 1,418
Essex 17,124 2,677
Gateshead 1,145 273
Gloucestershire 3,979 446
Greenwich 4,150 915
Hackney 1,594 93
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,269 767
Hampshire 16,613 4,563
Haringey 2,824 250
Harrow 1,269 225
Havering 2,047 1,683
Hereford and Worcester 6,439 3,104
Hertfordshire 10,078 5,113
Hillingdon 1,833 -42
Hounslow 2,518 1,201
Humberside 5,180 3,636
Isle of Wight 834 367

Primary and Secondary School Balances LEAs—England 1995–96
Primary Secondary
(£000s) (£000s)
Isles of Scilly 11 14
Islington 1,930 -56
Kensington and Chelsea 893 288
Kent 8,663 4,599
Kingston upon Thames 1,423 294
Kirklees 1,952 318
Knowsley 918 124
Lambeth 1,228 424
Lancashire 16,129 5,544
Leeds 3,479 -449
Leicestershire 6,817 2,966
Lewisham 1,498 1,431
Lincolnshire 3,337 2,164
Liverpool 3,907 1,694
Manchester -1,614 -2,607
Merton 2,183 699
Newcastle upon Tyne 2,185 1,934
Newham 2,081 1,389
Norfolk 5,720 1,909
North Tyneside 344 206
North Yorkshire 7,554 4,449
Northamptonshire 4,994 3,142
Northumberland 1,610 1,065
Nottinghamshire 7,497 3,321
Oldham 117 65
Oxfordshire 6,009 3,654
Redbridge 1,375 526
Richmond upon Thames 1,431 566
Rochdale 560 -446
Rotherham 378 136
Salford 1,940 527
Sandwell 3,469 459
Sefton 3,366 2,299
Sheffield 1,204 737
Shropshire 3,221 1,441
Solihull 1,966 1,469
Somerset 4,742 3,779
South Tyneside 1,250 406
Southwark 3,173 1,079
St. Helens 2,218 1,881
Staffordshire 7,192 3,483
Stockport 1,844 1,278
Suffolk 5,604 4,657
Sunderland 874 119
Surrey 9,075 1,827
Sutton 1,382 247
Tameside 1,088 340
Tower Hamlets 2,760 1,936
Trafford 125 97
Wakefield 1,706 145
Walsall 2,268 431
Waltham Forest 2,376 716
Wandsworth 2,280 193
Warwickshire 3,912 1,253
West Sussex 2,644 1,259
Westminster 2,514 -165
Wigan 2,900 2,013
Wiltshire 4,690 1,720
Wirral 1,448 891
Wolverhampton 2,954 582

Notes:

The figures have been derived from the LMS outturn statements prepared by LEAs under section 122 of the Education Act 1996 (formerly section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988).

Middle schools have been assigned to the primary or secondary sectors as appropriate.