HC Deb 14 April 2000 vol 348 cc298-301W
Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the amount of surplus reserves held by each LEA. [119194]

Ms Estelle Morris

The following table shows, for each local education authority in England, the level of reserves held at 31 March 1999, the latest information available centrally. Reserves are held for the purposes of the authority as a whole and are not specific to education.

Local education authorities levels of reserves Budget estimates 1999–2000
£000
Level of reserves as at 31 March 1999
Barking and Dagenham 41,086
Barnet 33,808
Barnsley 5,789
Bath and North East Somerset 8,316
Bedfordshire 10,307
Bexley 17,717
Birmingham 22,282
Blackburn with Darwen 9,851
Blackpool 7,362
Bolton 11,440
Bournemouth 19,841
Bracknell Forest 10,704
Bradford 15,589
Brent 7,290
Brighton and Hove 15,926
Bristol 19,953
Bromley 58,890
Buckinghamshire 22,533
Bury 8,542
Calderdale 5,310
Cambridgeshire 28,676
Camden 60,154
Cheshire 15,977
City of London 165,560
City of Nottingham 17,343
Cornwall 38,433
Coventry 82,412
Croydon 38,390
Cumbria 18,619
Darlington 3,831
Derby City 7,655
Derbyshire 14,002
Devon 9,433
Doncaster 23,342
Dorset 7,139
Dudley 19,283
Durham 23,639
Ealing 12,864
East Riding of Yorkshire 15,980
East Sussex 12,617
Enfield 17,266
Essex 50,434
Gateshead 6,808
Gloucestershire 26,548
Greenwich 38,764
Hackney 6,315
Halton 8,111
Hammersmith and Fulham 18,387
Hampshire 32,192
Haringey 14,500
Harrow 8,044
Hartlepool 9,601
Havering 10,643
Herefordshire 8,484
Hertfordshire 47,624
Hillingdon 8,384
Hounslow 11,002
Isle of Wight 8,538
Isles of Scilly 2,525
Islington 11,325
Kensington and Chelsea 43,045
Kent 23,394
Kingston upon Hull 15,606
Kingston upon Thames 4,099
Kirklees 14,124
Knowsley 5,862
Local education authorities levels of reserves Budget estimates 1999–2000
£000
Level of reserves as at 31 March 1999
Lambeth 5,871
Lancashire 30,198
Leeds 18,002
Leicester City 25,308
Leicestershire 15,451
Lewisham 12,714
Lincolnshire 15,189
Liverpool 28,750
Luton 30,018
Manchester 49,135
Merton 6,807
Middlesbrough 3,064
Milton Keynes 7,670
Newcastle upon Tyne 8,717
Newham 29,030
Norfolk 38,077
North East Lincolnshire 7,099
North Lincolnshire 5,402
North Somerset 8,533
North Tyneside 8,785
North Yorkshire 16,699
Northamptonshire 25,258
Northumberland 18,519
Nottinghamshire 13,132
Oldham 17,240
Oxfordshire 16,673
Peterborough 12,753
Plymouth 8,683
Poole 7,320
Portsmouth 14,829
Reading 5,336
Redbridge 8,522
Redcar and Cleveland 8,391
Richmond upon Thames 8,933
Rochdale 17,558
Rotherham 22,909
Rutland 846
Salford 16,347
Sandwell 5,664
Sefton 8,087
Sheffield 4,062
Shropshire 5,895
Slough 7,712
Solihull 7,748
Somerset 27,828
South Gloucestershire 18,059
South Tyneside 9,140
Southampton 16,119
Southend-on-Sea 23,325
Southwark 54,538
St. Helens 14,712
Staffordshire 35,645
Stockport 18,515
Stockton-on-Tees 9,897
Stoke-on-Trent 6,425
Suffolk 41,509
Sunderland 22,386
Surrey 37,756
Sutton 15,939
Swindon 10,255
Tameside 6,729
Telford and the Wrekin 2,272
The Medway Towns 57,756
Thurrock 19,254
Torbay 7,301
Tower Hamlets 26,643
Local education authorities levels of reserves Budget estimates 1999–2000
£000
Level of reserves as at 31 March 1999
Trafford 32,995
Wakefield 14,258
Walsall 3,598
Waltham Forest 9,049
Wandsworth 39,339
Warrington 12,968
Warwickshire 21,673
West Berkshire 21,354
West Sussex 30,982
Westminster 52,864
Wigan 22,731
Wiltshire 12,883
Windsor and Maidenhead 16,034
Wirral 16,253
Wokingham 6,625
Wolverhampton 17,481
Worcestershire 13,703
York 13,307