HC Deb 19 January 2000 vol 342 cc435-8W
Mr. Jack

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 11 January 2000 to the hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane),Official Report, columns 148–52W, concerning local education authority administrative costs, if he will publish on a cost per pupil basis the expenditure on administration for each local education authority listed. [105300]

Ms Estelle Morris

The following table gives for each local education authority in England information on administration expenditure, encompassing central management and administration, and service, strategy and regulation costs, in the form of costs per pupil for the financial year 1997–98.

Expenditure on administration by LEAs in England for financial year 199798
LEA name Expenditure on central management administration and service strategy and regulation costs per pupil Total education expenditure cost per pupil
London, City of 3,168 15,074
Camden 304 4,296
Greenwich 237 3,406
Hackney 319 4,347
Hammersmith and Fulham 246 4,507
Islington 217 4,025
Kensington and Chelsea 271 5,722
Lambeth 40 5,243

Ms Jowell

[holding answer 17 January 2000]: The following table summarises the immediate destinations of young people who leave the New Deal in each of the constituencies named. In addition to those recorded as leaving for unsubsidised employment, we know that many of those recorded as leaving for unknown destinations will have found work without notifying the Employment Service. A recent survey found that of those leaving for unknown destinations from the Gateway stage of New Deal, 57 per cent. entered paid employment.

We do not hold information on the destinations of young people 13 and 26 weeks after leaving New Deal. Our figures for sustained jobs cover those who leave for a job and do not return to claim JSA within 13 weeks.

Expenditure on administration by LEAs in England for financial year 199798
LEA name Expenditure on central management administration and service strategy and regulation costs per pupil Total education expenditure cost per pupil
Lewisham 166 3,828
Southwark 233 4,145
Tower Hamlets 253 3,936
Wandsworth 207 4,402
Westminster, City of 297 4,576
Barking and Dagenham 138 3,002
Barnet 117 3,450
Bexley 145 2,551
Brent 131 4,051
Bromley 200 3,144
Croydon 99 3,218
Ealing 202 3,434
Enfield 179 3,125
Haringey 109 3,678
Harrow 126 3,308
Havering 82 2,619
Hillingdon 188 3,142
Hounslow 121 3,129
Kingston upon Thames 125 3,024
Merton 171 3,142
Newham 99 3,160
Redbridge 69 2,999
Richmond upon Thames 120 3,189
Sutton 206 3,181
Waltham Forest 249 3,419
Birmingham 83 2,988
Coventry 5O 2,974
Expenditure on administration by LEAs in England for financial year 1997–98
LEA name Expenditure on central management administration and service strategy and regulation costs per pupil Total education expenditure cost per pupil
Dudley 70 2,501
Sandwell 86 2,716
Solihull 84 2,485
Walsall 58 2,726
Wolverhampton 90 2,909
Knowsley 126 2,607
Liverpool 111 2,836
St. Helens 85 2,659
Sefton 77 2,742
Wirral 104 2,680
Bolton 77 2,592
Bury 76 2,537
Manchester 104 2,917
Oldham 57 2,577
Rochdale 97 2,704
Salford 188 2,777
Stockport 80 2,489
Tameside 84 2,461
Trafford 68 2,649
Wigan 81 2,532
Barnsley 75 2,495
Doncaster 70 2,663
Rotherham 81 2,446
Sheffield 93 2,678
Bradford 82 2,724
Calderdale 125 2,747
Kirklees 104 2,611
Leeds 84 2,673
Wakefield 96 2,403
Gateshead 146 2,877
Newcastle upon Tyne 130 3,115
North Tyneside 40 2,592
South Tyneside 125 2,612
Sunderland 45 2,477
Isles of Scilly 184 5,038
Bath and North East Somerset 117 2,847
Bristol, City of 145 2,945
North Somerset 130 2,787
South Gloucestershire 136 2,542
Hartlepool 116 2,431
Middlesbrough 116 2,576
Redcar and Cleveland 74 2,546
Stockton on Tees 80 2,429
Kingston upon Hull, City of 82 2,574
East Riding of Yorkshire 85 2,636
North East Lincolnshire 92 2,476
North Lincolnshire 208 2,734
North Yorkshire 81 2,661
York, City of 56 2,668
Bedfordshire 88 2,698
Luton 94 2,971
Buckinghamshire 160 2,885
Milton Keynes 191 2,661
Derbyshire 49 2,601
Derby City 84 2,656
Dorset 63 2,742
Poole 114 2,379
Bournemouth 147 2,790
Durham 95 2,621
Darlington 105 2,447
East Sussex 123 2,751
Brighton and Hove 140 2,925
Hampshire 87 2,728
Portsmouth 85 2,818
Southampton 37 2,812
Leicestershire 90 2,652
Leicester City 343 2,984
Rutland 153 3,418
Staffordshire 18 2,387
Stoke-on-Trent 90 2,471
Expenditure on administration by LEAs in England for financial year 199798
LEA name Expenditure on central management administration and service strategy and regulation costs per pupil Total education expenditure cost per pupil
Wiltshire 134 2,844
Swindon 64 2,442
Berkshire 83 2,652
Cambridgeshire 101 2,834
Cheshire 57 2,637
Cornwall 68 2,704
Cumbria 60 2,873
Devon 63 2,640
Essex 42 3,006
Gloucestershire 123 2,901
Hereford and Worcester 49 2,606
Hertfordshire 87 2,810
Isle of Wight 172 2,830
Kent 159 2,797
Lancashire 92 2,775
Lincolnshire 120 2,910
Norfolk 56 2,758
Northamptonshire 67 2,514
Northumberland 98 2,533
Nottinghamshire 106 2,662
Oxfordshire 104 2,756
Shropshire 61 2,748
Somerset 97 2,735
Suffolk 55 2,651
Surrey 109 2,922
Warwickshire 103 2,621
West Sussex 87 2,741
Total/Average 101 2,814