§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each local education authority the amount(a) in total and (b) per pupil, that is spent an ICT, broken down into (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools. [146086]
§ Mr. Wills[holding answer 18 January 2001]: Details of NGfL funding allocations are available on an LEA-by-LEA basis on the Standards Fund website ("http://www.dfee.gov."uk/standardsfund/). However, expenditure on ICT may be supplemented at both LEA and school level and this information is not held centrally.
Data on average expenditure on ICT per school and per pupil are collected annually as part of the DfEE survey of ICT in schools. Summary statistics from the April 2000 survey are provided as follows:
There was no ICT survey in 1997. The following table shows changes since 1996. Funding on ICT by schools has doubled in the primary and special sectors since 1996, and has increased substantially in the secondary sector over this period.
£ Primary Secondary Special Average expenditure on ICT per school in: 1999–2000 8,300 50,100 11,900 1995–96 3,250 32,200 6,050 Average expenditure on ICT per pupil in: 1999–2000 37 56 154 1995–96 9 28 54