§ Mr. StevensonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on the review of SSA and area cost adjustment for education under review; and when he proposes to implement changes arising from the review. [53239]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisWe are in the middle of a review of the SSA formula, including the area cost adjustment. We will not take final decisions on the SSA methodology for 1999–2000 until the autumn, after we have considered the views of local government as a whole.
§ Mr. StevensonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the education standard spending assessment for those local authorities which achieved unitary status in(a) 1996 and (b) 1997. [53253]
§ 1997. Ms Estelle MorrisThe table sets out the education SSA for 1998–99 for those local authorities which achieved unitary status in(a) 1996 and (b)
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£million LEA Education SSA 1996 Bath and North East Somerset 54.4 Bristol 119.9 North Somerset 58.6 South Gloucestershire 78.7 Hartlepool 37.0 Middlesbrough 61.5 Redcar and Cleveland 59.6 Stockton on Tees 71.7 Kingston upon Hull 102.7 East Riding of Yorkshire 102.9 North East Lincolnshire 64.8 North Lincolnshire 56.4 York 52.8 1997 Bournemouth 49.5 Brighton and Hove 71.8 Darlington 34.1 Derby 84.2 Leicester 121.0 Luton 78.0 Milton Keynes 83.5 Poole 44.2 Portsmouth 62.5 Rutland 10.6
£ million LEA Education SSA Southampton 64.8 Stoke on Trent 87.0 Swindon 82.8