HC Deb 26 February 2001 vol 363 cc379-80W
Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for(a) Great Britain and (b) each local authority real terms expenditure per pupil in (i) 1979, (ii) 1990 and (iii) each year since 1992 for which figures are available. [147252]

Ms Estelle Morris

The information requested on local education authority real terms expenditure per pupil is contained in tables, copies of which have been placed in the Library. The tables cover England, for which I have ministerial responsibility. Information based on net institutional expenditure is given for each local education authority for 1979–80, 1990–91 and each year from 1992–93 to 1998–99, the latest year for which this information is currently available. In addition, further tables for each local education authority based on funding People, the virement of £2,070,000 from programme provision into running costs for New Deal for Partners and a transfer of £306,000 to Class XII, Vote 3 (Department of Social Security: administration) for the New Deal for Partners.

The decrease in non-Voted expenditure within DEL arises from the switching of £24,000,000 from non-voted credit approvals to capital support for former grant maintained schools.

The increases are the result of transfers or will be charged to the Reserve and will not therefore acid to the planned total of public expenditure.

Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the total expenditure and the breakdown of expenditure was in his Department for the financial years(a) 1996–97, (b) 1997–98, (c) 1998–99 and (d) 1999–2000, and what the planned expenditure and breakdown of expenditure for 2000–01 is on (i) public opinion research, (ii) television, radio and newspaper advertising and (iii) direct mail. [149260]

Mr. Wills

[holding answer 8 February 2001]: The Department's expenditure in these categories was:

per pupil, through the education standard spending assessment and central government grants, have been provided for the years 1997–98 to 2000–01.