§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list for each of the years 1997–98 to 2001–02(a) the name of each local education authority where education SSA increases have not been passported, (b) the total amount of education budget and (c) the total amount of education SSA and the surplus order deficit over education SSA. [22371]
§ Mr. TimmsTables 1 to 3 list those local education authorities which did not passport in the years 1999–2000 to 2001–02, together with their total education budget, their education SSA, and the spend above or below SSA. Passporting is defined by whether an authority passed on to the education budget the year on year increase in education SSA, rather than by the relationship between budget and SSA. However, it is not possible to assess whether passporting took place simply from an analysis of budget and SSA figures, since in assessing passporting adjustments were made for items such as Capital Expenditure from the Revenue Account (CERA), one-off payments, and the ceiling on grant increases in 2001–02. There were no passporting exercises in 1997–98 and 1998–99.
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Table 1: 1999–2000 £ million LEA Education budget Education SSA Surplus or deficit Lambeth 115.032 111.391 3.641 Lewisham 127.548 127.492 0.056 Haringey 110.586 110.650 -0.064 Merton 63.906 66.325 -2.419 Redbridge 115.074 118.368 -3.294
Table 1: 1999–2000 £ million LEA Education budget Education SSA Surplus or deficit Richmond upon Thames 53.338 52.456 0.882 Waltham Forest 110.433 111.051 -0.618 Birmingham 546.234 505.954 40.280 Walsall 123.863 124.648 -0.785 Knowsley 85.322 85.232 0.090 St. Helens 80.741 76.502 4.239 Trafford 105.130 91.100 14.030 Wigan 131.721 125.345 6.376 Doncaster 134.658 136.085 -1.427 Gateshead 81.637 78.264 3.373 Newcastle upon Tyne 121.426 111.037 10.389 Bath and North East Somerset 68.329 62.342 5.987 North Somerset 70.967 67.996 2.971 South Gloucestershire 99.418 93.808 5.610 Redcar and Cleveland 66.086 66.199 -0.113 Hull City 115.990 114.819 1.171 East Riding of Yorkshire 129.087 121.259 7.828 Milton Keynes 87.284 92.700 -5.416 Darlington 39.133 39.671 -0.538 Brighton and Hove 84.059 82.767 1.292 Southampton 90.432 87.375 3.057 Leicestershire 236.428 228.194 8.234 Swindon 71.156 73.292 -2.136 Herefordshire 60.529 61.103 -0.574 Lancashire 484.874 468.489 16.385 Blackpool 50.677 52.808 -2.131 Cornwall 191.623 189.829 1.794 Somerset 185.943 175.623 10.320 West Sussex 275.729 269.166 6.563 Note:
Education budget is taken from Local Authorities' Revenue Account returns. Non-passporting authorities are those which were published in the LEA comparative expenditure tables in June 1999.
Table 2: 2000–01 £ million LEA Education budget Education SSA Surplus or deficit Southwark 132.620 130.405 2.216 Barnet 144.869 143.030 1.838 Brent 122.579 129.463 -6.884 Redbridge 123.490 125.904 -2.414 Salford 100.503 98.773 1.730 North Somerset 72.244 70.855 1.389 Somerset 191.534 186.168 5.365 Note:
Education budget is total education revenue expenditure recorded at line 5 on local education authorities' section 52 budget statements for 2000–01, less income from grants recorded at line 6. Non-passporting authorities are those which were published in the LEA comparative expenditure tables in June 2000.
Table 3: 2001–02 £ million LEA Education budget Education SSA Surplus or deficit Brent 126.841 135.195 -8.354 Harrow 91.492 90.818 0.674 Wolverhampton 125.771 120.747 5.024 City of Bristol 161.303 145.611 15.691 North Somerset 74.582 74.508 0.073 York 68.251 66.287 1.965 Swindon 80.047 80.046 0.001 Northumberland 141.303 139.663 1.640 Note:
825WEducation budget is total education revenue expenditure recorded at line 5 on local education authorities' section 52 budget statements for 2000–01, less income from grants recorded at lines 6a and 6b. Non-passporting authorities are those which were published in the LEA comparative expenditure tables in June 2001.