HC Deb 22 January 2002 vol 378 c824W
Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much(a) Staffordshire and (b) Hertfordshire spent on education as a percentage of SSA in each of the past five years. [29076]

Mr. Timms

The information requested is given in the following table:

Education as a percentage of SSA
Year £
Staffordshire
1996–97 102.0
1997–98 102.3
1998–99 101.3
1999–2000 101.1
2000–01 100.5
Hertfordshire
1996–97 102.7
1997–98 101.8
1998–199 100.8
1999–2000 99.7
2001–01 100.1

Note:

  1. 1. Information is taken from data published in the 2001 and previous years' Departmental Annual Reports. Budget figures up to 1999–2000 were taken from local authorities' latest Revenue Account returns submitted to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and for 2000–01, from LEAs s52 Budget statements.
  2. 2. From 1997–98 Staffordshire does not include Stoke-on-Trent