HC Deb 08 January 2002 vol 377 cc714-5W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the amount was(a) in total and (b) per pupil spent on information and communications technology in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in the Buckingham constituency in each year since 1997. [23727]

John Healey

This information is not held by the Department on a constituency basis. However, expenditure on ICT in schools in ngland has been collected annually since 1998 and is shown in the table:

Expenditure on ICT 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01
Primary schools
in total (£ million) 68 125 50 186
per pupil (£) 15 32 37 42
Secondary schools
in total (£ million) 143 161 177 210
per pupil (£) 46 53 56 66