Education Funding (Hansard, 29 January 2001)

§ Mr. Blunkett

I am today making an extra £52 million available to provide support to help some English local education authorities manage funding changes in 2001–02.1 am making this extra funding available to deal with known pressures in advance of the longer term revision of the distribution of local authority finance. This funding is in addition to the resources provided through the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, and in addition to other Government funding to relieve other specific pressures on authorities.

This funding is on top of the significant increases that have already been announced for 2001–02—increases which mean £150 extra spending per pupil on average in real terms. The increase in funding per pupil is part of a real terms increase of £370 over three years bringing the total to almost £700 per pupil between 1997 and 2004. Total funding per pupil has already increased by over £300 in real terms since 1997. Between 1994–95 and 1997–98 funding per pupil fell by £60 in real terms.

The recent funding increases include: over £1 billion extra in Education Standard Spending Assessments—a 4.8 per cent. increase on 2000–01; a further £250 million in direct grants to schools—a typical primary school will get £20,000, and a typical secondary school £60,000 (up from £9,000 and £40,000 this year for heads to use as they see fit); and an increase of £600 million in the Standards Fund from £1.7 billion to £2.3 billion to support literacy and numeracy in primary and secondary schools, class sizes and tackling truancy.

The distribution of the extra £52 million will take account of authorities' Education Standard Spending Assessment increase, the extra pressure they face from the transfer of Adult Education funding, their allocation from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, and their need to spend on teacher recruitment and retention—particularly in London and the South East.

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Each authority's share of the £52 million the following table.

Number	LEA	Special grant(£ million)
202	Camden	0.76
203	Greenwich	0.91
206	Islington	1.40
209	Lewisham	0.29
212	Wandsworth	0.83
302	Barnet	0.87
303	Bexley	0.10
304	Brent	1.03
305	Bromley	0.10
307	Ealing	0.96
308	Enfield	0.85
310	Harrow	0.10
311	Havering	0.10
312	Hillingdon	0.10
313	Hounslow	0.10
314	Kingston upon Thames	0.10
315	Merton	1.06
317	Redbridge	0.10
318	Richmond upon Thames	0.10
319	Sutton	0.10
330	Birmingham	3.67
333	Sandwell	0.85
334	Solihull	0.29
340	Knowsley	1.21
341	Liverpool	0.57
342	St. Helens	0.65
343	Sefton	0.85
344	Wirral	1.00
351	Bury	0.10
352	Manchester	0.65
355	Salford	0.55
356	Stockport	0.95
357	Tameside	0.46
358	Trafford	0.97
359	Wigan	0.74
370	Barnsley	0.18
371	Doncaster	0.88
372	Rotherham	0.61
373	Sheffield	1.03
380	Bradford	2.14
381	Calderdale	0.10
382	Kirklees	0.66
383	Leeds	0.69
390	Gateshead	0.75
391	Newcastle upon Tyne	0.76
393	South Tyneside	0.47
394	Sunderland	0.69
800	Bath and North East Somerset	0.10
801	City of Bristol	0.70
802	North Somerset	0.10
803	South Gloucestershire	0.10
806	Middlesbrough	0.61
807	Redcar and Cleveland	0.50
808	Stockton-on-Tees	0.42
810	Kingston-upon-Hull	0.59
811	East Riding of Yorkshire	0.10
812	North East Lincolnshire	0.36
813	North Lincolnshire	0.10
815	North Yorkshire	0.10
816	York	0.10
820	Bedfordshire	0.10
825	Buckinghamshire	0.10
826	Milton Keynes	0.10
830	Derbyshire	0.10
835	Dorset	0.10
836	Poole	0.10
837	Bournemouth	0.10
840	Durham	2.76
841	Darlington	0.36

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Number	LEA	Special grant (£million)
845	East Sussex	0.10
850	Hampshire	0.10
851	Portsmouth	0.52
852	Southampton	0.57
855	Leicestershire	0.10
857	Rutland	0.10
860	Staffordshire	0.41
861	Stoke-on-Trent	0.14
865	Wiltshire	0.10
866	Swindon	0.46
867	Bracknell Forest	0.10
868	Windsor and Maidenhead	0.10
869	West Berkshire	0.10
870	Reading	0.10
871	Slough	0.10
872	Wokingham	0.10
873	Cambridgeshire	0.10
874	Peterborough	0.10
875	Cheshire	0.54
876	Halton	0.59
877	Warrington	0.25
878	Devon	0.10
880	Torbay	0.10
881	Essex	0.10
882	Southend-on-Sea	0.10
883	Thurrock	0.10
884	Herefordshire	0.10
885	Worcestershire	1.35
886	Kent	0.10
887	Medway Towns	0.10
888	Lancashire	0.10
889	Blackburn with Darwen	0.45
891	Nottinghamshire	0.10
892	Nottingham City	1.13
893	Shropshire	0.10
894	Telford and Wrekin	0.31
908	Cornwall	0.10
909	Cumbria	0.10
916	Gloucestershire	0.10
919	Hertfordshire	0.10
921	Isle of Wight	0.10
925	Lincolnshire	0.10
926	Norfolk	0.10
928	Northamptonshire	0.10
929	Northumberland	1.35
931	Oxfordshire	0.10
933	Somerset	0.10
935	Suffolk	0.10
936	Surrey	0.10
937	Warwickshire	0.10
938	West Sussex	0.10
	Total	52.00