HC Deb 20 November 2000 vol 357 cc32-7W
Mr. Boswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each local education authority(a) the amounts spent and (b) the full-time equivalent numbers directly employed in the Youth Service in each of the last three years, together with a projection of the proportion of that (i) expenditure and (ii) staff to be transferred to the Connexions Service. [137032]

Mr. Wicks

[holding answer 7 November 2000]: The table gives the information requested in respect of the amounts spent for each local education authority in the Youth Service for the last three years. The figures are drawn from the local authority returns (R01) for 1996–97, 1997–98 and 1998–99, which is the latest year available. The three years prior to 1996–97 are included to indicate how spending is recovering from cuts in services in 1995–96.

My Department does not collate the numbers employed by local authorities within their Youth Services. The 1998 audit of England's Local Authority Youth Services,

Net current expenditure after recharges (R01 line 29) by English LEAs on the Youth Service from 1993–94 to 1998–99
12£000
1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 31998–99
Corporation of London 0 10 40 130 90 100
Avon 6,380 6,540 6,820
Barking and Dagenham 1,490 1,440 1,220 1,320 1,280 1,280
Barnet 1,620 1,650 1,480 1,540 1,650 1,950
Barnsley 820 1,070 1,210 1,530 1,360 1,630
Bath and North East Somerset 570 1,230 1,310
Bedfordshire 2,580 2,510 2,300 2,190 1,400 1,190
Berkshire 4,220 4,470 4,780 4,920 4,990
Bexley 1,350 870 1,060 1,120 1,150 1,460
Birmingham 5,890 7,010 6,680 6,800 7,430 8,140
Blackburn 1,030
Blackpool 600
Bolton 1,700 1,540 1,570 1,560 1,200 1,340
Bournemouth 1,040 1,000
Bracknell Forest 740
Bradford 3,270 4,900 4,640 4,200 4,280 4,290
Brent 3,930 3,570 2,670 2,570 2,410 2,480
Brighton and Hove 710 1,050
Bristol 2,380 2,380 1,040
Bromley 920 970 880 890 960 2,210
Buckinghamshire 5,360 3,970 3,970 3,820 2,440 1,970
Bury 890 940 1,090 850 710 820
Calderdale 1,740 1,910 1,890 2,150 2,070 1,980
Cambridgeshire 5,270 5,020 3,860 3,600 3,110 2,410
Camden 1,850 2,180 2,310 2,310 2,040 2,190
Cheshire 4,240 5,140 3,910 3,730 3,980 2,610
Cleveland 4,720 5,070 5,150
Cornwall 1,920 2,030 2,380 2,110 2,070 2,460
Coventry 1,760 1,750 1,830 2,330 2,510 2,100
Croydon 1,700 1,730 1,690 1,770 1,740 1,860
Cumbria 2,150 1,600 1,550 1,590 1,530 1,610
Darlington 520 560
Derby City 1,140 1,410
Derbyshire 5,970 6,450 5,610 5,520 4,230 4,320
Devon 4,780 4,160 2,970 3,170 3,150 2,130
Doncaster 1,900 1,980 1,890 1,710 1,730 1,870
Dorset 3,390 3,610 3,710 3,770 2,010 2,320
Dudley 970 1,090 1,100 1,070 1,180 1,190
Durham 4,620 4,370 3,740 3,970 3,650 3,740
Ealing 1,120 1,110 1,230 1,010 940 1,080
East Riding of Yorkshire 1,320 1,300 1,360
East Sussex 2,020 2,260 2,210 2,100 1,610 1,500
Enfield 690 740 690 750 900 970
Essex 9,790 11,270 8,930 8,950 8,760 5,780
Gateshead 1,160 980 900 990 930 1,150
Gloucestershire 3,340 3,520 3,060 3,010 2,980 2,590

"England's Youth Service—the 1998 Audit," indicated that there were approximately 7,190 full-time equivalent Youth Service delivery staff employed in 1996–97.

Details of the Youth Service resources that will contribute to the delivery of the Connexions Service are not yet available. We have asked the Connexions Partnerships introducing the service in 2001–02 to identify the Youth Service resources that local authorities in their areas propose to bring within the Connexions Service framework. This information will be set out in the business and delivery plans that Partnerships will be submitting at the beginning of 2001. The Connexions Service Business Planning Guidance indicates our expectation that local authorities will wish to contribute a significant proportion of their Youth Service provision to the delivery of the Connexions Service. This may include, for example, incorporating youth workers within the multi-disciplinary teams of personal advisers created at local level.

Net current expenditure after recharges (R01 line 29) by English LEAs on the Youth Service from 1993–94 to 1998–99
1,2£000
1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 31998–99
Greenwich 2,020 1,750 1,830 1,900 1,920 2,220
Hackney 3,630 3,260 2,810 1,820 1,370 1,240
Halton 870
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,980 830 790 1,210 1,430 1,050
Hampshire 3,930 4,280 4,130 4,470 3,110 3,430
Haringey 800 850 810 1,250 1,190 1,540
Harrow 780 830 910 1,020 740 810
Hartlepool 860 850 920
Havering 1,060 1,040 910 900 1,090 1,220
Hereford and Worcester 2,370 2,360 2,110 2,120 2,370 520
Hertfordshire 4,680 5,000 4,870 5,150 5,610 4,910
Hillingdon 1,530 1,640 1,290 1,590 1,520 1,670
Hounslow 940 880 870 960 990 1,180
Humberside 6,260 6,200 6,380
Isle of Wight 1,030 1,050 940 930 1,010 970
Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0 0 0
Islington 3,450 3,520 3,700 3,800 4,110 3,380
Kensington and Chelsea 2,330 2,330 1,790 3,570 3,750 2,720
Kent 6,040 8,730 4,440 5,240 4,930 4,580
Kingston-upon-Hull 2,130 2,110 1,400
Kingston upon Thames 820 800 880 630 640 590
Kirklees 3,270 3,820 2,850 1,430 1,310 2,070
Knowsley 2,120 0 0 20 0 490
Lambeth 2,480 2,750 3,480 1,610 1,840 1,860
Lancashire 10,370 10,790 10,680 10,250 10,790 6,410
Leeds 3,790 4,260 4,350 4,570 5,360 11,910
Leicester City 2,450 2,730
Leicestershire 6,600 6,390 5,210 5,140 3,170 3,380
Lewisham 1,330 640 10 1,470 1,810 1,800
Lincolnshire 2,040 2,150 2,010 2,100 2,140 2,240
Liverpool 6,520 6,220 6,530 6,600 6,400 6,710
Luton 1,030 970
Manchester 3,300 2,710 2,810 2,740 2,670 2,860
Merton 930 830 520 520 490 530
Middlesbrough 1,380 260 630
Milton Keynes 1,450 1,470
Newbury 710
Newcastle upon Tyne 1,600 2,410 2,440 2,680 2,570 3,020
Newham 2,560 2,360 2,110 2,100 2,230 1,860
Norfolk 2,970 3,250 3,030 3,100 3,150 2,890
North East Lincolnshire 870 650 680
North Lincolnshire 1,090 970 1,210
North Somerset 900 870 850
North Tyneside 300 270 260 230 230 300
North Yorkshire 2,850 2,900 2,750 1,530 1,600 1,200
Northamptonshire 2,750 2,880 2,920 2,930 2,990 3,170
Northumberland 1,820 2,250 2,010 1,700 1,280 1,170
Nottingham City 2,950
Nottinghamshire 6,660 6,800 7,000 7,140 7,500 5,060
Oldham 1,140 1,240 1,200 1,390 2,310 2,660
Oxfordshire 2,760 3,240 3,470 2,790 2,700 2,690
Peterborough 160
Plymouth 240
Poole 720 700
Portsmouth 0 0
Reading 2,130
Redbridge 1,390 1,400 1,370 1,340 1,190 1,310
Redcar and Cleveland 890 1,050 1,130
Richmond upon Thames 760 860 930 880 890 910
Rochdale 1,320 1,440 1,440 1,410 1,390 1,240
Rochester and Gillingham 810
Rotherham 2,380 2,460 2,180 1,720 2,720 3,420
Rutland 150 220
Salford 980 980 950 1,000 1,110 1,180
Sandwell 690 730 880 980 1,230 1,350
Sefton 1,410 1,510 1,440 1,500 1,510 1,680
Sheffield 4,050 4,320 4,290 4,190 3,970 4,170
Shropshire 3,060 3,010 2,720 2,630 2,550 1,400
Slough 900
Solihull 780 710 620 530 610 640
Somerset 2,260 2,340 2,040 2,220 2,390 2,350

Net current expenditure after recharges (R01 line 29) by English LEAs on the Youth Service from 1993–94 to 1998–99
12£000
1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 31998–99
South Gloucestershire 820 890 870
South Tyneside 1,040 1,000 900 990 940 990
Southampton 770 820
Southend 720
Southwark 1,590 2,760 3,000 3,510 3,820 4,050
St. Helens 380 470 640 400 850 890
Staffordshire 10,710 10,320 8,850 8,340 6,630 6,460
Stockport 1,320 1,130 1,150 1,170 1,300 1,510
Stockton-on-Tees 1,190 1,170 1,060
Stoke on Trent 1,090 770
Suffolk 1,480 0 0 0 0 0
Sunderland 1,860 1,830 1,900 1,940 510 1,090
Surrey 5,100 5,890 5,200 5,000 4,640 4,830
Sutton 1,040 1,180 1,220 1,200 1,140 1,190
Swindon 1,200 1,030
Tameside 2,900 2,540 1,790 1,830 1,670 1,740
The Wrekin 1,200
Thurrock 1,070
Torbay 410
Tower Hamlets 4,600 4,540 4,160 4,180 3,930 3,760
Trafford 1,080 1,040 1,020 1,060 1,030 1,470
Wakefield 1,420 1,390 1,350 1,370 1,740 1,570
Walsall 1,080 1,350 310 150 1,200 1,410
Waltham Forest 2,180 1,890 1,910 1,770 1,910 2,180
Wandsworth 3,180 3,240 3,140 3,070 2,960 3,100
Warrington 850
Warwickshire 790 970 750 760 940 1,100
West Sussex 4,200 4,490 3,990 3,320 3,400 3,590
Westminister 2,390 2,450 2,700 2,760 2,840 2,190
Wigan 1,010 1,100 1,110 1,090 1,160 1,200
Wiltshire 5,110 5,000 4,030 4,220 2,660 1,680
Windsor and Maidenhead 580
Wirral 2,590 2,530 2,250 2,220 1,960 1,940
Wokingham 470
Wolverhampton 2,690 2,900 2,830 2,920 2,990 2,840
Worcestershire 1,670
York 740 850 920
National Total 296,060 302,550 279,140 274,420 277,400 285,610
1 Figures are in cash terms: i.e. they have not been corrected for inflation
2 Expenditure has been rounded to the nearest £10
3 1998–99 figures are provisional