HC Deb 17 March 1997 vol 292 cc439-40W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list for each local education authority in Wales the expenditure per pupil of the school's budget on administration in 1995–96 and estimated to be so spent in 1996–97. [15938]

Mr. Jonathan Evans

[holding answer 14 February 1997]: The information requested is given in the following table.

The details for 1995–96 are:

£
Clwyd 47.73
Dyfed 46.90
Gwent 30.87
Gwynedd 40.89
Mid Glamorgan 19.92
Powys1 2.86
South Glamorgan 44.88
West Glamorgan 27.04

The figures for Clwyd, Dyfed and West Glamorgan LEAs are based on section 42 budget statements as the outturn statements for 1995–96 have yet to be submitted to the Secretary of State.

1 Costs relating to the management and administration of general schools budget expenditure have been included with the budgets of those services that the authority has chosen to retain centrally. Details of these costs are not available.

The provisional details for 1996–97 are:

£
Isle of Anglesey 35.49
Blaenau Gwent 37.69
Bridgend 32.95
Caerphilly 35.52
City and County of Cardiff 18.70
Carmarthenshire 48.82
Ceredigion 62.09
£
Conwy 60.77
Denbighshire 62.65
Flintshire 43.28
Merthyr Tydfil 35.24
Monmouthshire 38.88
Neath Port Talbot 21.48
Newport 49.61
Pembrokeshire 60.03
Powys1 0.00
Rhondda-Cynon-Taff 18.33
City and County of Swansea 20.79
Torfaen 49.18
Vale of Glamorgan 43.24
Wrexham 49.39
1 Costs relating to the management and administration of general schools budget expenditure have been included with the budgets of those services that the authority has chosen to retain centrally. Details of these costs are not available.