HC Deb 15 January 2002 vol 378 cc212-3W
Mrs. Anne Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if she will give the standard spending assessment per pupil for the primary and secondary sectors for(a) Cambridgeshire and (b) Suffolk in each year from 1990–91 to 2001–02, adjusted for inflation at current values; [27633]

(2) if she will list the standard spending assessments per pupil for the primary and secondary sectors by local education authority for England and Wales in each year from 1990–91 to 2001–02, and projected for the financial year 2002–03, adjusted for inflation at current values. [27632]

Mr. Timms

The information requested for England is contained in tables, copies of which have been placed in the Libraries. Funding for schools in Wales is the responsibility of the National Assembly for Wales.

Mrs. Anne Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list for shire counties(a) the education service block standard spending assessment for each county divided by the total number of full-time equivalent pupils financed by that county, (b) the primary education service sub block SSA for each county, divided by the number of primary pupils financed by that county and (c) the secondary education service sub block SSA for each county divided by the number of secondary pupils financed by that county, in the financial year 2002–03. [27626]

Mr. Timms

The information requested is in the following table.

Provisional education SSA per pupil for 2002–03
LEA Primary per 5–10 pupil Secondary per 11–15 pupil Total education per 4–19 pupil1
Bedfordshire 2,663 3,408 3,074
Buckinghamshire 2,656 3,411 3,072
Cambridgeshire 2,533 3,225 2,859
Cheshire 2,469 3,149 2,826
Cornwall 2,594 3,335 3,000
Cumbria 2,581 3,299 2,965
Derbyshire 2,492 3,197 2,848
Devon 2,559 3,290 2,919
Dorset 2,494 3,179 2,851
Durham 2,628 3,378 3,039
East Sussex 2,713 3,498 3,116
Essex 2,710 3,465 3,094
Gloucestershire 2,497 3,186 2,847
Hampshire 2,582 3,322 2,901
Hertfordshire 2,750 3,503 3,169
Kent 2,708 3,470 3,105
Lancashire 2,589 3,319 2,962
Leicestershire 2,411 3,094 2,764
Lincolnshire 2,586 3,311 2,972
Norfolk 2,606 3,325 2,978
North Yorkshire 2,557 3,244 2,927
Northamptonshire 2,529 3,232 2,890
Northumberland 2,562 3,288 2,983
Nottinghamshire 2,506 3,219 2,913
Oxfordshire 2,671 3,399 3,057
Shropshire 2,534 3,228 2,875
Somerset 2,529 3,245 2,856
Staffordshire 2,451 3,146 2,827
Suffolk 2,526 3,221 2,907
Surrey 2,718 3,466 3,072
Warwickshire 2,489 3,173 2,832
West Sussex 2,638 3,365 3,007
Wiltshire 2,509 3,220 2,844
Worcestershire 2,472 3,157 2,817
1 Total education SSA divided by total pupils aged 4 to 19 (includes 4-year-olds in PVI—private and voluntary institutions.