HL Deb 28 June 1999 vol 603 cc13-6WA
Lord Peston

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What was the spending per primary pupil as a proportion of spending per secondary pupil in each English Local Education Authority in the most recent year for which figures are available. [HL3158]

The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Baroness Blackstone)

The following table gives, for each local education authority in England, for 1998–99, the average of the budget share per primary pupil as a percentage of the average budget share per pupil in secondary schools.

LEA-Maintained Schools in England—1998–99
Average funding per pupil in primary schools as proportion of funding per secondary school pupil
%
City of London n/a
Camden 74.8
Greenwich 71.5
Hackney 75.5
Hammersmith and Fulham 74.8
Islington 73.4
Kensington and Chelsea 75.1
Lambeth 76.4
Lewisham 72.0
Southwark 76.8
Tower Hamlets 78.5
Wandsworth 77.5
Westminster 75.6
Barking/Dagenham 76.2
Barnet 70.4
Bexley 64.9
Brent 72.5
Bromley 74.5
Croydon 71.4
Ealing 75.8
Enfield 71.8
Haringey 72.3
Harrow 69.9
Havering 66.5
Hillingdon 65.1
Hounslow 79.6
Kingston 74.2
Merton 77.6
Newham 66.8
Redbridge 65.9
Richmond 77.2
Sutton 71.0
Waltham Forest 88.9
Birmingham 74.9
Coventry 71.1
Dudley 73.1
Sandwell 69.7
Solihull 73.9
Walsall 70.2
Wolverhampton 63.8
Knowsley 71.7
Liverpool 75.5
St. Helens 67.5
Sefton 66.2
Wirral 68.1
Bolton 70.8
Bury 68.3
Manchester 68.9
Oldham 69.1
Rochdale 67.8
Salford 57.3
Stockport 71.1
Tameside 72.4
Trafford 61.1
Wigan 66.4
Barnsley 64.2
Doncaster 68.4
Rotherham 72.1
Sheffield 73.8
Bradford 88.0
Calderdale 67.6
Kirklees 67.7
Leeds 74.5
Wakefield 74.0
Gateshead 71.2
Newcastle 72.2
North Tyneside 73.2
South Tyneside 103.1
Sunderland 73.4
Isles of Scilly 60.0
Bath & NE Somerset 70.8

LEA-Maintained Schools in England—1998–99
Average funding per pupil in primary schools as proportion of funding per secondary school pupil
%
Bristol 68.0
North Somerset 70.0
South Gloucestershire 71.3
Hartlepool 67.9
Middlesbrough 63.5
Redcar & Cleveland 68.8
Stockton on Tees 69.9
Hull 75.5
East Riding 71.6
North East Lincolnshire 73.3
North Lincolnshire 73.1
North Yorkshire 67.3
York 68.0
Bedfordshire 73.8
Luton 66.3
Buckinghamshire 66.7
Milton Keynes 64.3
Derbyshire 62.7
Derby City 60.0
Dorset 74.2
Poole 70.0
Bournemouth 68.8
Durham 69.3
Darlington 70.9
East Sussex 66.0
Brighton and Hove 65.7
Hampshire 74.2
Portsmouth 75.1
Southampton 74.1
Leicestershire 72.2
Leicester City 70.9
Rutland n/a
Staffordshire 73.7
Stoke-on-Trent 71.2
Wiltshire 70.4
Swindon 68.3
Bracknell Forest 69.9
Windsor & Maidenhead 72.0
West Berkshire 72.3
Reading 67.6
Slough 66.3
Wokingham 68.7
Cambridgeshire 72.6
Peterborough 66.1
Cheshire 69.4
Halton 74.4
Warrington 70.7
Devon 69.9
Plymouth 68.6
Torbay 68.3
Essex 69.5
Southend-on-Sea 69.3
Thurrock 67.2
Herefordshire 72.8
Worcestershire 75.6

LEA-Maintained Schools in England—1998–99
Average funding per pupil in primary schools as proportion of funding per secondary school pupil
%
Kent 70.3
Medway Towns 69.7
Lancashire 68.2
Blackburn with Darwen 68.1
Blackpool 66.7
Nottinghamshire 68.8
Nottingham City 76.5
Shropshire 65.4
Telford and Wrekin 56.9
Cornwall 73.5
Cumbria 69.7
Gloucestershire 71.4
Hertfordshire 69.5
Isle of Wight 70.9
Lincolnshire 65.5
Norfolk 70.8
Northamptonshire 71.1
Northumberland 69.3
Oxfordshire 74.6
Somerset 72.3
Suffolk 66.6
Surrey 77.1
Warwickshire 63.2
West Sussex 70.9