Mr. RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of local education authorities spend(a) below, (b) at and (c) above their standard spending assessments. [98367]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisIn 1999–2000 the budgeted net recurrent expenditure of 35 per cent. of local education authorities in England was below their standard spending assessment while that for 65 per cent. was above it.
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Mr. RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of total spending on education is retained by each local education authority for the purpose of central administration. [98361]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe following table shows, for local education authorities in England for 1999–2000, the planned central administration expenditure as a percentage of the total education spend.
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Central administration as percentage of total education budget Percentage City of London 16.5 Camden 2.5 Greenwich 3.5 Hackney 1.9 Hammersmith and Fulham 1.9 Islington 2.8 Kensington and Chelsea 3.2 Lambeth 1.6 Lewisham 2.6 Southwark 2.4 Tower Hamlets 2.4 Wandsworth 1.9 Westminster 0.9 Barking/Dagenham 1.6 Barnet 2.4 Bexley 2.4 Brent 1.8 Bromley 2.3 Croydon 1.8 Ealing 1.4 Enfield 1.1 Haringey 2.8 Harrow 2.4 Havering 1.8 Hillingdon 1.4 Hounslow 2.5 Kingston 1.8 Merton 3.3 Newham 1.6 Redbridge 2.8 Richmond 2.2 Sutton 2.3 Waltham Forest 2.4 Birmingham 2.0 Coventry 1.8 Dudley 2.5 Sandwell 1.8 Solihull 1.8 Walsall 1.2 Wolverhampton 1.8 Knowsley 2.3 Liverpool 2.2 St. Helens 2.1 Sefton 1.3 Wirral 2.1 Bolton 1.3 Bury 2.7
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Central administration as percentage of total education budget Percentage Manchester 3.9 Oldham 1.2 Rochdale 1.7 Salford 2.3 Stockport 1.2 Tameside 1.9 Trafford 1.5 Wigan 1.7 Barnsley 0.8 Doncaster 1.4 Rotherham 1.5 Sheffield 1.3 Bradford 1.1 Calderdale 2.0 Kirklees 1.6 Leeds 1.6 Wakefield 1.4 Gateshead 2.0 Newcastle 1.9 North Tyneside 1.5 South Tyneside 2.0 Sunderland 1.8 Isles of Scilly 6.3 Bath and North East Somerset 1.4 Bristol 2.2 North Somerset 1.8 South Gloucestershire 2.3 Hartlepool 2.6 Middlesbrough 3.1 Redcar and Cleveland 3.7 Stockton on Tees 1.7 Hull 1.6 East Riding 1.8 North East Lincolnshire 1.9 North Lincolnshire 2.1 North Yorkshire 1.3 York 2.2 Bedfordshire 1.4 Luton 1.8 Buckinghamshire 1.6 Milton Keynes 1.1 Derbyshire 1.4 Derby City 1.6 Dorset 2.0 Poole 1.6 Bournemouth 2.5 Durham 1.3 Darlington 1.1 East Sussex 2.6 Brighton and Hove 2.5 Hampshire 1.5 Portsmouth 1.9 Southampton 1.9 Leicestershire 2.2 Leicester City 1.3 Rutland 2.0 Staffordshire 1.4 Stoke-on-Trent 2.1 Wiltshire 2.0 Swindon 2.6 Bracknell Forest 3.2 Windsor and Maidenhead 1.8 West Berkshire 1.8 Reading 2.3 Slough 2.1 Wokingham 2.5 Cambridgeshire 1.5 Peterborough 1.8 Cheshire 1.2 Halton 2.2 Warrington 1.2 Devon 2.1 Plymouth 1.6
Central administration as percentage of total education budget Percentage Torbay 2.5 Essex 1.2 Southend-on-Sea 1.2 Thurrock 2.3 Herefordshire 2.7 Worcestershire 1.5 Kent 1.8 Medway Towns 1.8 Lancashire 1.1 Blackburn with Darwen 2.8 Blackpool 1.6 Nottinghamshire 1.5 Nottingham City 1.6 Shropshire 1.1 Telford and Wrekin 1.4 Cornwall 1.2 Cumbria 1.3 Gloucestershire 1.4 Hertfordshire 1.0 Isle of Wight 1.7 Lincolnshire 0.9 Norfolk 1.2 Northamptonshire 1.4 Northumberland . 1.9 Oxfordshire 0.7 Somerset 0.8 Suffolk 1.3 Surrey 1.8 Warwickshire 1.2 West Sussex 1.9