§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the proportion of gross domestic product spent on education in each Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development country in the last financial year. [30839]
§ Dr. HowellsInformation on the proportion of gross domestic product spent on education in each OECD country is contained in table B1.t of 'Education at a Glance OECD Indicators 1997' published in December 1997, a copy of which is held in the House of Commons Library. The latest year for which comparative information is available is 1994. Comparisons across countries are complicated by the need for consistency of definition: the OECD figures for the UK may differ from the main UK measure as published in "Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses".
§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the capital expenditure on education by each local authority in England in 1997. [30863]
§ Mr. ByersIn the financial year 1996–97, capital expenditure on education by each local authority in England was as follows:
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£000 Local authority Total capital expenditure on education Baking and Dagenham 10,090 Barnet 7,518 285W
£000 Local authority Total capital expenditure on education Barnsley 4,343 Bath and North East Somerset 2,493 Bedfordshire 6,064 Berkshire 17,774 Bexley 8,769 Birmingham 10,621 Bolton 2,480 Bradford 8,505 Brent 1,459 Bromley 4,830 Buckinghamshire 19,006 Bury 801 Calderdale 3,436 Cambridgeshire 17,442 Camden 4,302 Cheshire 21,211 City of Bristol 8,599 City of Kingston upon Hull 314 City of London 800 Cornwall 11,216 Coventry 7,841 Croydon 7,063 Cumbria 5,029 Derbyshire 7,286 Devon 15,948 Doncaster 6,858 Dorset 19,051 Dudley 4,919 Durham 5,576 Ealing 2,269 East Riding of Yorkshire 649 East Sussex 19,249 Enfield 8,555 Essex 20,861 Gateshead 4,687 Gloucestershire 10,587 Greenwich 858 Hackney 1,396 Hammersmith and Fulham 3,139 Hampshire 35,933 Haringey 5,077 Harrow 4,646 Hartlepool 28 Havering 1,806 Hereford and Worcester 8,789 Hertfordshire 14,863 Hillingdon 4,685 Hounslow 5,246 Isle of Wight 4,853 Isles of Scilly 15 Islington 1,409 Kensington and Chelsea 2,553 Kent 29,514 Kingston upon Thames 1,864 Kirklees 4,386 Knowsley 2,681 Lambeth 874 Lancashire 16,553 Leeds 17,439 Leicestershire 9,188 Lewisham 4,720 Lincolnshire 10,298 Liverpool 7,956 Manchester 11,841
£000 Local authority Total capital expenditure on education Merton 599 Middlesbrough 2,172 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,998 Newham 1,487 Norfolk 13,974 North East Lincolnshire 313 North Lincolnshire 167 North Somerset 3,898 North Tyneside 2,032 North Yorkshire 3,984 Northamptonshire 13,622 Northumberland 3,375 Nottinghamshire 6,097 Oldham 4,161 Oxfordshire 11,471 Redbridge 6,948 Redcar and Cleveland 1,351 Richmond upon Thames 2,381 Rochdale 2,268 Rotherham 755 Salford 6,985 Sandwell 3,449 Sefton 1067 Sheffield 5,548 Shropshire 6,675 Solihull 2,747 Somerset 4,899 South Gloucestershire 4,950 South Tyneside 1,344 Southwark 5,545 St Helens 1,362 Staffordshire 8,020 Stockport 1,115 Stockton on Tees 975 Suffolk 9,649 Sunderland 7,634 Surrey 12,429 Sutton 6,787 Tameside 3,479 Tower Hamlets 9,338 Trafford 4,159 Wakefield 12,041 Walsall 1,568 Waltham Forest 7,426 Wandsworth 3,590 Warwickshire 17,520 West Sussex 15,210 Westminster 2,359 Wigan 2,438 Wiltshire 6,220 Wirral 2,584 Wolverhampton 2,131 York 1,443 England 797,850