§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the difference between the education budget and the general schools budget for each local education authority in the country; and how much of that amount was spent on service strategy and regulation activity in the last year for which figures are available. [27500]
§ Mr. ByersThe following table sets out, for each local education authority in England, the difference between its total education budget and its General Schools Budget, and its Service Strategy and Regulation expenditure for 1996–97.
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£000 1996–97 LEA Difference between total education budget and General Schools Budget Net current expenditure on Service Strategy and Regulation Barking and Dagenham 6,783 1,450 Barnet 40,769 1,855 Barnsley 4,600 1,589 Bedfordshire 41,366 1,156 Berkshire 58,035 1,726 Bexley 17,374 1,659 Birmingham 74,431 639 Bolton 12,204 595 Bradford 23,023 259 Brent 45,749 388 Bromley 58,006 1,085 Buckinghamshire 59,395 3,573 Bury 4,401 1,013 Calderdale 28,932 669 Cambridgeshire 61,018 2,119 Camden 17,557 1,028 Cheshire 31,819 1,529 Cornwall 10,689 1,347 Corporation of London 2,063 295 Coventry 11,899 1,020 Croydon 40,567 1,573 Cumbria 50,268 1,286 Derbyshire 70,651 1,748 Devon 35,900 1,766 Doncaster 4,895 223 Dorset 48,766 1,318 Dudley 21,924 1,643 Durham 17,548 806 Ealing 31,416 962 East Sussex 16,744 2,523 Enfield 27,730 2,048 Essex 256,325 6,405 Gateshead 7,197 463 Gloucestershire 80,845 1,251 Greenwich 13,294 1,238 Hackney 18,069 1,122 Hammersmith and Fulham 16,841 1,975 Hampshire 77,345 2,877 Haringey 8,454 602 Harrow 10,596 1,093 Havering 16,282 730 Hereford and Worcester 28,649 1,314 Hertfordshire 88,423 3,341 Hillingdon 44,809 302 Hounslow 9,875 850 Hull 10,871 463 Isle of Wight 5,171 579 Isles of Scilly 253 21 Islington 15,595 692 Kensington and Chelsea 16,779 1,412 Kent 204,930 1,688 Kirklees 15,979 627
£000 1996–97 LEA Difference between total education budget and General Schools Budget Net current expenditure on Service Strategy and Regulation Knowsley 7,186 2,918 Lambeth 46,551 750 Lancashire 56,052 1,962 Leeds 26,012 667 Leicestershire 25,109 1,101 Lewisham 18,775 2,027 Lincolnshire 82,098 1,527 Liverpool 35,090 2,277 Manchester 16,281 1,474 Merton 5,724 1,531 Newcastle 17,487 2,779 Newham 14,918 1,346 Norfolk 47,394 886 North Tyneside 4,214 578 Northamptonshire 44,666 1,597 Northumberland 6,447 1,223 Nottinghamshire 34,367 2,351 Oldham 3,756 515 Oxfordshire 18,167 1,035 Redbridge 11,345 1,105 Richmond 4,732 810 Rochdale 16,566 587 Rotherham 6,016 315 Salford 7,781 682 Sandwell 14,383 879 Sefton 5,467 436 Sheffield 12,710 827 Shropshire 20,853 873 Solihull 3,658 1,621 Somerset 17,014 582 South Tyneside 5,756 82 Southwark 29,274 675 St. Helens 5,048 803 Staffordshire 37,808 1,600 Stockport 4,867 373 Suffolk 13,196 1,988 Sunderland 6,841 264 Surrey 72,845 3,062 Sutton 25,962 758 Tameside 12,144 664 Tower Hamlets 23,107 1,892 Trafford 19,592 700 Wakefield 4,593 582 Walsall 28,150 1,664 Waltham Forest 17,079 2,384 Wandsworth 28,468 1,316 Warwickshire 20,673 1,662 West Sussex 15,310 1,346 Westminster 17,869 2,240 Wigan 725 568 Wiltshire 56,829 1,046 Wirral 15,320 1,535 Wolverhampton 16,151 1,333