§ Mrs. Anne CampbellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list for Cambridgeshire(a) the difference between the education department budget and that county's education service block SSA in each year from 1992–93 to 2002–03 and (b) that sum divided by the total number of full-time equivalent pupils financed by that education department. [27627]
§ Mr. TimmsThe following table provides the latest available information:
Difference between education budget and SSA (£ million) Difference per pupil (£) 1993–94 7.1 70 1994–95 16.3 160 1995–96 17.5 170 1996–97 7.7 74 1997–98 14.4 138 1998–99 10.8 142 1999–2000 3.9 51 2000–01 4.1 53 2001–02 11.1 144 Notes:
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 and 2001–02, from LEAs s52 Budget statements.
2. The authority's budgeted spend was more than the SSA.
3. Cambridgeshire was re-organised in 1998–99. All pupil numbers but those for 2001–02 are financial year averages, based on January Annual Census returns. The figures for 2001–02 reflect the January 2001 returns. Figures for 1990–91 to 1998–99 include grant maintained schools. Figures for 1999–2000 to 2001–02 include ex-GM schools. The total figures include pre-primary, primary secondary and special schools.
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