§ Lord Marlesfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will give, for the most recent available year, expenditure on Childcare Strategy in each county in England and Wales. [HL652]
§ Baroness Ashton of UphollandWe only have information on expenditure on the National Childcare Strategy relating to England. Expenditure in Wales is a matter for the Welsh Assembly. Annex 1 shows expenditure in 2000–01 for each local authority from grants made by the former Department for Education and Employment. This excludes other childcare expenditure such as the working families tax credit, grants to students, independent local authority expenditure and grants made from the New Opportunities Fund for which local authority figures are not available.
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Local Authority Expenditure on childcare 2000–01 (£) Barking & Dagenham 178,559 Barnet 327,310 Barnsley 289,733 Bath & North East Somerset 147,538 Bedfordshire 378,933 Bexley 222,610 Birmingham 1,397,818 Blackburn UA 276,939 Blackpool UA 148,780 Bolton 450,467 Bournemouth UA 135,748 Bracknell Forest UA 103,563 Bradford 678,203 Brent 320,831 Brighton & Hove UA 240,154 Bristol, City of 516,647 Bromley 252,621 Buckinghamshire 410,040 Bury 230,190 Calderdale 195,705 Cambridgeshire 580,381 Camden 204,476 Cheshire 648,163 City of London 49,650 Cornwall 487,185 Coventry 383,168 Croydon 373,095 Cumbria 481,544 Darlington UA 116,478 Derby UA 286,190 Derbyshire 624,516 Devon 617,224
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Local Authority Expenditure on childcare 2000–01 (£) Doncaster 351,669 Dorset 302,066 Dudley 378,206 Durham 545,878 Ealing 346,862 East Riding of Yorkshire 219,066 East Sussex 466,439 Enfield 272,340 Essex 1,144,642 Gateshead 230,632 Gloucestershire 514,620 Greenwich 362,061 Hackney 337,204 Halton UA 155,860 Hammersmith & Fulham 218,520 Hampshire 1,131,405 Haringey 302,562 Harrow 247,094 Hartlepool UA 104,752 Havering 228,949 Herefordshire, County of 148,494 Hertfordshire 832,270 Hillingdon 235,745 Hounslow 263,221 Isle of Wight 128,792 Isles of Scilly 42,000 Islington 252,133 Kensington & Chelsea 182,859 Kent 1,444,683 Kingston upon Hull, City of 351,286 Kingston upon Thames 123,157 Kirklees 397,678 Knowsley 283,261 Lambeth 417,557 Lancashire 1,106,726 Leeds 807,583 Leicester UA 428,391 Leicestershire 547,823 Lewisham 298,972 Lincolnshire 453,238 Liverpool 776,220 Luton UA 282,844 Manchester 706,315 Medway (Rochester & Gillingham) 254,759 Merton 178,602 Middlesbrough 249,963 Milton Keynes UA 192,545 NE Lincolnshire 203,557 Newcastle upon Tyne 340,977 Newham 392,932 Norfolk 702,466 North Lincolnshire UA 172,561 North Somerset 170,377 North Tyneside 183,219 North Yorkshire 552,887 Northamptonshire 545,220 Northumberland 263,940 Nottingham UA 348,416 Nottinghamshire 659,015 Oldham 289,280 Oxfordshire 541,382 Peterborough UA 177,376 Plymouth 240,522 Poole UA 122,973 Portsmouth UA 222,301 Reading UA 149,938 Redbridge 200,863 Redcar & Cleveland UA 164,866 Richmond upon Thames 141,287 Rochdale 265,112 Rotherham 277,377 Rutland UA 74,219 Salford 349,040
Local Authority Expenditure on childcare 2000–01 (£) Sandwell 330,140 Sefton 314,468 Sheffield 623,746 Shropshire 239,454 Slough UA 135,574 Solihull 184,252 Somerset 443,937 South Gloucestershire 212,898 South Tyneside 222,846 Southampton UA 225,729 Southend UA 161,346 Southwark 400,075 St Helens 213,762 Staffordshire 658,630 Stockport 278,071 Stockton-on-Tees UA 296,953 Stoke-on-Trent 312,160 Suffolk 622,669 Sunderland 354,767 Surrey 869,738 Sutton 168,993 Swindon (Thamesdown) 219,122 Tameside 257,536 Telford & Wrekin UA 171,645 Thurrock UA 99,445 Torbay UA 116,087 Tower Hamlets 308,354 Trafford 226,748 Wakefield 363,129 Walsall 303,941 Waltham Forest 211,419 Wandsworth 298,985 Warrington UA 191,664 Warwickshire 465,945 West Berkshire (Newbury) 132,519 West Sussex 724,042 Westminster 207,005 Wigan 316,091 Wiltshire 381,032 Windsor & Maidenhead UA 118,451 Wirral 404,912 Wokingham UA 110,719 Wolverhampton 297,299 Worcestershire 421,596 York UA 143,180