HC Deb 10 November 1999 vol 337 cc533-6W
Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the total amount spent by each local authority on discretionary awards to support access to further education in 1997–98, 1998–99 and 1999–2000. [97547]

Mr. Wicks

Information for the academic year 1997–98, the latest year for which information is available, is shown in the following table

Expenditure on further education discretionary awards paid by local education authorities 1 in England and Wales
Academic year 1997–98 Total expenditure (£000)
England
Corporation of London 2.8
Camden 65.5
Greenwich 83.2
Hackney 530.0
Hammersmith and Fulham 117.4
Islington 0.6
Kensington and Chelsea 93.8
Expenditure on further education discretionary awards paid by local education authorities1 in England and Wales
Academic year 1997–98 Total expenditure (£000)
Lambeth 2—
Lewisham 355.0
Southwark 260.8
Tower Hamlets 708.9
Wandsworth 229.7
City of Westminster 47.1
Barking and Dagenham 673.0
Barnet 47.1
Bexley 117.2
Brent 25.7
Bromley 328.2
Croydon 520.7
Ealing 91.0
Enfield 214.0
Haringey 2—
Harrow 2—
Havering 155.6
Hillingdon 60.8
Hounslow 94.2
Kingston upon Thames 13.8
Merton 198.3
Newham 607.6
Redbridge 78.9
Richmond upon Thames 121.5
Sutton 47.7
Waltham Forest 246.4
Birmingham 4.3
Coventry 54.4
Dudley 76.5
Sandwell 68.8
Solihull 2—
Walsall 5.3
Wolverhampton 2—
Knowsley 455.2
Liverpool 774.0
St. Helens 182.3
Sefton 667.0
Wirral 137.8
Bolton 1.4
Bury 56.2
Manchester 987.3
Oldham 455.6
Rochdale 307.0
Salford 27.1
Stockport 24.5
Tameside 396.4
Trafford 32.5
Wigan 174.7
Barnsley 3.9
Doncaster 25.0
Rotherham 171.0
Sheffield 37.3
Bradford 43.1
Calderdale 44.1
Kirklees 1,052.2
Leeds 1,633.1
Wakefield 9.0
Gateshead 157.9
Newcastle upon Tyne 211.3
North Tyneside 88.6
South Tyneside 216.4
Sunderland 54.2
Isles of Scilly 36.1
Bath and North East Somerset 58.7
Bristol City 227.2
North Somerset 136.2
South Gloucestershire 134.7
Bedfordshire 46.5
Luton 221.9
Bracknell Forest 53.6
Windsor and Maidenhead 47.1
Expenditure on further education discretionary awards paid by local education authorities 1 in England and Wales
Academic year 1997–98 Total expenditure (£000)
West Berkshire 137.2
Reading3 4—
Slough3 4—
Wokingham3 4—
Buckinghamshire 275.8
Milton Keynes 175.2
Cambridgeshire5 202.1
Cheshire 40.3
Halton 24.1
Warrington 20.4
Hartlepool 101.0
Middlesbrough 339.1
Redcar and Cleveland 153.4
Stockton on Tees 135.7
Cornwall 2,072.0
Cumbria 2,122.3
Derbyshire 10.6
City of Derby 3.5
Devon5 1,018.4
Dorset 1,185.6
Poole 449.0
Bournemouth 854.9
Durham 400.3
Darlington 1,022.8
East Sussex 1,022.8
Brighton and Hove 293.5
Essex 1,980.2
Southend 338.5
Thurrock 225.4
Gloucestershire 117.2
Hampshire 2,019.1
Portsmouth 742.8
Southampton 530.8
Herefordshire 306.5
Worcestershire 604.7
Hertfordshire 989.1
Hull City 851.0
East Riding 568.9
North East Lincolnshire 223.9
North Lincolnshire 595.0
Isle of Wight 198.6
Kent5 1,344.0
Lancashire5 3,614.5
Leicestershire 344.4
Leicester City 593.2
Rutland 9.5
Lincolnshire3 4—
Norfolk 857.0
North Yorkshire 1,014.4
York City 624.2
Northamptonshire 2.0
Northumberland 836.2
Nottinghamshire 664.1
Nottingham City 614.8
Oxfordshire 135.0
Shropshire5 398.6
Somerset 1,097.3
Staffordshire 353.8
Stoke-on-Trent 238.7
Suffolk3 5—
Surrey 1,107.2
Warwickshire 0.7
West Sussex 929.1
Wiltshire 688.4
Swindon 266.2
Wales
Isle of Anglesey 349.5
Gwynedd3 4—
Conwy 256.8
Denbighshire 29.8
Expenditure on further education discretionary awards paid by local education authorities 1 in England and Wales
Academic year 1997–98 Total expenditure (£000)
Flintshire 150.8
Wrexham 119.9
Powys 2—
Ceredigion 32.5
Pembrokeshire 78.5
Carmarthenshire 77.7
City and County of Swansea 16.1
Neath Port Talbot 84.5
Bridgend 45.5
The Vale of Glamorgan 173.1
Rhondda Cynon Taff 479.4
Merthyr Tydfil 21.9
Caerphilly 385.7
Blaenau Gwent 266.8
Torfaen 151.0
Monmouthshire 363.1
Newport 358.7
Cardiff 663.7
Total England and Wales6 59,614.5
1 Paid by local education authorities to students normally domiciled in their area.
2 Less than £500
3 Gwynedd, Lincolnshire, Suffolk, Reading, Slough and Wokingham were unable to provide information.
4 Not available
5 Data are not available separately for the new LEAs which have replaced the former authorities of Cambridgeshire, Devon, Kent, Lancashire and Shropshire.
6 Total includes estimates to compensate for missing or partial returns.

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