HC Deb 11 March 1998 vol 308 cc218-20W
Dr. George Turner

To 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. Byers

The table sets out the information requested for 1996-97, the latest year for which figures are available.

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

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 Turner

To 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. Byers

LEA expenditure in England on home to school transport was £381 million in 1996–97, the latest year for which figures are available.