§ Dr. George TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the average cost per pupil of providing home to school transport for each local education authority in the last year for which figures are available. [33490]
§ Mr. ByersThe table sets out the information requested for 1996-97, the latest year for which figures are available.
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Cost per pupil in LEA maintained schools LEA Cost per pupil (£) Barking and Dagenham 38 Barnet 53 Barnsley 5 Bath and North East Somerset 80 Bedfordshire 40 Berkshire 68 Bexley 34
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Cost per pupil in LEA maintained schools LEA Cost per pupil (£) Birmingham 34 Bolton 10 Bradford 40 Brent 94 Bristol 47 Bromley 70 Buckinghamshire 95 Bury 24 Calderdale 40 Cambridge 85 Camden 62 Cheshire 58 City of London 228 Cornwall 66 Coventry 23 Croydon 37 Cumbria 85 Derbyshire 61 Devon 87 Doncaster 26 Dorset 87 Dudley 28 Durham 59 Ealing 87 East Riding of Yorkshire 84 East Sussex 55 Enfield 40 Essex 139 Gateshead 25 Gloucestershire 106 Greenwich 59 Hackney 42 Hammersmith and Fulham 78 Hampshire 50 Haringey 49 Harrow 0 Hartlepool 28 Havering 23 Hereford and Worcester 72 Hertfordshire 60 Hillingdon 45 Hounslow 36 Isle of Wight 50 Isles of Scilly 64 Islington 53 Kensington and Chelsea 63 Kent 99 Kingston upon Hull 33 Kingston upon Thames 44 Kirklees 34 Knowsley 36 Lambeth 104 Lancashire 54 Leeds 38 Leicestershire 65 Lewisham 11 Lincolnshire 81 Liverpool 30 Manchester 40 Merton 0 Middlesbrough 30 Newcastle upon Tyne 6 Newham 25 Norfolk 103 North East Lincolnshire 33 North Lincolnshire 70 North Somerset 80 North Tyneside 28 North Yorkshire 100 Northamptonshire 59 Northumberland 91 Nottinghamshire 27 Oldham 17
Cost per pupil in LEA maintained schools LEA Cost per pupil (£) Oxfordshire 76 Redbridge 52 Redcar and Cleveland 36 Richmond upon Thames 29 Rochdale 33 Rotherham 31 Salford 43 Sandwell 7 Sefton 27 Sheffield 0 Shropshire 90 Solihull 33 Somerset 72 South Gloucestershire 51 South Tyneside 3 Southwark 68 St. Helens 36 Staffordshire 46 Stockport 2 Stockton on Tees 33 Suffolk 68 Sunderland 1 Surrey 98 Sutton 58 Tameside 31 Tower Hamlets 13 Trafford 46 Wakefield 21 Walsall 22 Waltham Forest 33 Wandsworth 81 Warwickshire 61 West Sussex 56 Westminster 99 Wigan 23 Wiltshire 106 Wirral 49 Wolverhampton 26 York 48
§ Dr. George TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the total cost to local education authorities of providing home to school transport in the last year for which figures are available. [33494]
§ Mr. ByersLEA expenditure in England on home to school transport was £381 million in 1996–97, the latest year for which figures are available.