§ Mr. McLoughlinTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the current amounts available for expenditure on education by each of the(a) shire counties and (b) unitary authorities as a percentage of total spending; and indicate what each such authority would have to spend to bring it up to the spending level of the highest-spending shire county. [95221]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe information given in the table shows, for 1999–2000, for each shire and unitary local authority in England, (i) the percentage of each authority's total spending which was allocated to education, and (ii) the extra sum each would have to allocate in order to spend as much per pupil as Slough.
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Net expenditure—1999–2000 Education expenditure as percentage of total spending Extra spending required for education expenditure to meet £3,325 per pupil (£000) Slough 47.47 0 Bristol 40.88 1,359 Windsor and Maidenhead 37.00 2,395 Reading 39.91 2,787 Brighton and Hove 31.65 5,816 Bournemouth 37.66 5,501 Blackburn with Darwen 48.15 6,619 East Sussex 55.89 17,302 Rutland 52.41 1,289 Bath and North East Somerset 50.81 7,411 Cambridgeshire 61.53 23,062 Kent 61.31 65,652 Portsmouth 40.12 8,617 Southampton 41.91 10,227 Leicester City 45.23 16,657 Halton 46.62 7,464 North Lincolnshire 49.62 8,945 Luton 46.85 10,896 Isle of Wight 39.97 7,529 Peterborough 49.85 11,750 Southend-on-Sea 40.98 10,637 Essex 59.77 82,116 Torbay 38.66 7,999 Wokingham 54.74 10,052 Nottingham City 38.44 18,082 Buckinghamshire 63.73 32,094 Derby City 46.36 16,189 North East Lincolnshire 48.19 12,293 Surrey 57.24 60,553 Bracknell Forest 50.61 6,998 Thurrock 49.71 9,807 Plymouth 46.22 18,607 North Somerset 48.30 12,423 Milton Keynes 50.08 15,927 West Sussex 58.08 49,453 Shropshire 60.02 18,964 Lancashire 59.21 86.537 Stoke-on-Trent 46.99 19,614 South Gloucestershire 54.20 19,937 North Yorkshire 62.57 45,516 Leicestershire 63.14 48,861 Durham 57.20 42,174 Oxfordshire 58.44 44,184 Medway Towns 48.83 23,829 Blackpool 34.92 10,876 Hull 40.79 23,485 Nottinghamshire 60.49 66,130 Suffolk 60.50 54,548 Cheshire 59.33 58,833 Staffordshire 63.66 73.665 Somerset 59.74 38,703 Devon 54.71 52,882
Net expenditure—1999–2000 Education expenditure as percentage of total spending Extra spending required for education expenditure to meet £3,325 per pupil (£000) Hertfordshire 61.70 95,160 West Berkshire 46.10 13,600 East Riding 47.93 28,168 Warwickshire 60.09 43,313 Dorset 56.49 31,090 Cumbria 58.37 45,667 Redcar and Cleveland 47.29 15,689 Bedfordshire 59.91 37,593 Hampshire 59.62 104,840 Lincolnshire 59.90 59,294 Middlesbrough 43.49 15,682 Cornwall 57.82 44,710 Telford and Wrekin 43.11 15,817 Stockton on Tees 48.54 20,464 Wiltshire 59.96 39,457 Hartlepool 43.41 10,830 Poole 46.29 12,595 Norfolk 55.96 71,169 York 47.53 15,893 Herefordshire 43.68 15,455 Gloucestershire 59.55 54,947 Northamptonshire 62.08 67,279 Northumberland 56.01 34,072 Darlington 44.80 10,655 Warrington 51.75 22,296 Derbyshire 58.17 80,694 Worcestershire 60.38 59,631 Swindon 50.97 21,664