HC Deb 26 January 1998 vol 305 cc90-3W
Mr. McLoughlin

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment which local education authority holds back the lowest percentage of its school budget; and what amount per pupil, would be made available to schools if all local authorities held back the same percentage. [25339]

Mr. Stephen Byers

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council was the local education authority which delegated the largest proportion of its Potential Schools Budget for the financial year 1997–98, the percentage being 96.3. The table gives the information requested as a listing of local education authorities in England for the same year. The figures are derived from the budget statements produced by the local education authorities under section 122 of the 1996 Education Act.

Extract—section 122 budget statements (England) 1997–98) Amount capable of being delegated per pupil if ASB were 96.3 per cent. of PSB for authorities
£
Corporation of London 3,229
Camden 2,780
Greenwich 2,388
Hackney 2,551
Hammersmith and Fulham 2,673
Islington 2,432
Kensington and Chelsea 3,010
Lambeth 2,776
Lewisham 2,485
Southwark 2,455
Tower Hamlets 2,513
Wandsworth 2,558
Westminster 2,583
Barking/Dagenham 2,228
Barnet 2,148
Bexley 1,823
Brent 2,182
Bromley 1,898
Croydon 2,053
Ealing 2,190
Enfield 2,121
Haringey 2,411
Harrow 2,251
Havering 2,030
Hillingdon 2,054
Hounslow 2,283
Kingston 1,979
Merton 2,127
Newham 2,171
Redbridge 2,072
Richmond 2,189
Sutton 2,036
Waltham Forest 2,253
Birmingham 2,142
Coventry 2,076
Dudley 1,840
Sandwell 1,898
Solihull 1,891
Walsall 1,947
Wolverhampton 1,877
Knowsley 1,999
Liverpool 1,897
St. Helens 1,954
Sefton 2,003
Wirral 1,881
Bolton 1,883
Bury 1,760
Manchester 1,956
Oldham 1,924
Rochdale 1,803
Salford 1,899
Stockport 2,722
Tameside 1,721
Trafford 1,737
Wigan 1,988
Barnsley 1,712
Extract—section 122 budget statements (England) 1997–98) Amount capable of being delegated per pupil if ASB were 96.3 per cent. of PSB for all authorities
£
Doncaster 1,988
Rotherham 1,856
Sheffield 1,884
Bradford 1,807
Calderdale 1,791
Kirklees 1,862
Leeds 1,942
Wakefield 1,790
Gateshead 2,025
Newcastle 2,025
North Tyneside 1,879
South Tyneside 1,843
Sunderland 1,890
Isles of Scilly 3,486
Bath and North-East Somerset 2,100
Bristol 2,144
North Somerset 2,041
South Gloucestershire 2,458
Hartlepool 1,798
Middlesbrough 1,931
Redcar and Cleveland 1,905
Stockton on Tees 1,906
Hull 1,901
East Riding 2,023
North East Lincolnshire 1,929
North Lincolnshire 1,953
North Yorkshire 1,983
York 1,904
Luton 1,843
Milton Keynes 1,807
Derby City 1,671
Poole 1,640
Bournemouth 1,812
Darlington 1,800
Brighton and Hove 2,016
Portsmouth 2,058
Southampton 2,043
Leicester City 1,954
Rutland 1,820
Stoke on Trent 1,794
Swindon 1,756
Bedfordshire 1,872
Berkshire 1,934
Buckinghamshire 1,853
Cambridgeshire 1,821
Cheshire 1,919
Cornwall 1,924
Cumbria 1,814
Derbyshire 1,721
Devon 1,894
Dorset 1,834
Durham 1,895
East Sussex 2,004
Essex 1,891
Gloucestershire 1,779
Hampshire 1,983
Hereford/Worcester 1,874
Hertfordshire 1,912
Isle of Wight 1,955
Kent 1,885
Lancashire 1,905
Leicestershire 1,941
Lincolnshire 1,998
Norfolk 1,975
Northamptonshire 1,836
Northumberland 1,841
Nottinghamshire 1,782
Oxfordshire 1,917
Shropshire 1,850
Somerset 1,918
Staffordshire 1,767
Extract—section 122 budget statements (England) 1997–98) Amount capable of being delegated per pupil if ASB were 96.3 per cent. of PSB for all authorities
£
Suffolk 1,965
Surrey 2,020
Warwickshire 1,888
West Sussex 1,976
Wiltshire 1,829
England 1,958