§ Mr. BradyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list schools with sixth forms which will face a reduced budget in the next financial year as a result of decisions of the Learning and Skills Councils, giving the percentage reduction proposed in each case. [88891]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe effect of 2003–04 sixth form allocations by the Learning and Skills Council on schools' budgets cannot be calculated at present. These allocations are added into the budget share calculated 573W by the local education authority for the whole school using its own funding formula; and in doing so, the authority is permitted to make a range of adjustments, both up and down, before the total budget share for the school is finalised. Local education authorities are obliged to publish details of 2003–04 budget shares by 31 March 2003, and will be calculating them in the months leading up to that date.
The LSC allocations for 2003–04 were announced on 11 December 2002. The quantum distributed was £1.428 billion, which is 5.3 per cent. higher than the quantum for 2002–03. The allocations have not yet been finalised and are the subject of consultation with LEAs and schools. The allocations are primarily the
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LEA name: Pre-primary education Primary education Secondary education Special Schools Barking and Dagenham 0 556,272 309,210 1,197,303 Barnet 0 195,264 436,260 1,887,871 Barnsley 0 0 0 0 Bath and North East Somerset 0 418,279 979,653 733,486 Bedfordshire 0 592,000 3,542,700 2,820,000 Bexley 0 333,000 106,000 1,572,000 Birmingham 5,483 1,235,734 889,667 9,315,605 Blackburn 0 141,666 441,754 833,239 Blackpool 0 24,508 19,773 521,914 Bolton 1 107,196 153,394 577,174 Bournemouth 0 76,144 165,388 733,285 Bracknell Forest 0 37,565 497,273 968,638 Bradford 1,358 1,232,478 1,941,675 1,753,978 Brent 0 457,000 476,000 1,902,000 Brighton and Hove 0 0 0 0 Bromley 23,748 551,700 348,844 1,746,803 Buckinghamshire 19,466 1,846,286 6,380,213 2,571,587 Bury 0 232,041 226,207 912,407 Calderdale 0 186,768 675,040 962,587 Cambridgeshire 105,315 1,758,565 4,235,868 2,785,303 Camden 0 0 0 0 Cheshire 0 1,674,597 4,620,374 3,130,612 City of Bristol 51,599 96,139 389,568 731,654 City of Kingston-upon-Hull 0 0 0 0 City of London 17,764 248 8,615 27,006 Cornwall 88,067 1,188,855 3,771,242 1,346,783 Coventry 42,260 118,448 374,480 970,911 Croydon 32 0 0 2,624,743 Cumbria 17,027 2,215,052 4,405,232 1,322,707 Darlington 1,459 73,727 430,277 418,231 Derby 0 453,920 173,388 1,329,306 Derbyshire 0 979,000 3,626,000 2,621,000 Devon 19 3,076,798 7,519,964 2,571,980 Doncaster 0 12,743 26 0 Dorset 4,156 1,402,700 3,768,864 2,293,919 Dudley 0 174,462 121,237 1,408,805 Durham 33,607 973,003 4,488,932 2,488,208 Ealing 0 377,776 258,043 2,814,569 East Riding of Yorkshire 0 1,089,303 2,830,130 1,899,254 East Sussex 0 368,889 2,090,370 2,459,259 Enfield 1,327 409,252 541,205 2,605,101 Essex 0 5,059,519 7,783,730 7,271,403 Gateshead 0 111,858 98,321 898,896 Gloucestershire 100,387 1,288,224 3,222,346 2,416,953 Greenwich 0 0 0 2,299,550 Hackney 1,333 0 0 0 Halton 0 421 182,418 1,108,493 Hammersmith and Fulham 0 42,605 170,421 1,485,939 Hampshire 0 2,424,000 4,470,000 5,778,000 Haringey 0 312,822 261,834 1,541,271 Harrow 0 64,742 17,504 1,960 Hartlepool 0 21,523 180,162 396,942 Havering 0 72,829 235,198 641,142 Herefordshire 78 1,409,106 1,966,239 1,031,053 Hertfordshire 0 1,991,053 4,850,372 5,995,644 Hillingdon 1,601 381,667 277,025 2,009,241 Hounslow 0 311,062 116,124 1,430,000 Isle of Wight Council 0 67,213 980,664 179,824 responsibility of the LSC, and John Harwood, the Chief Executive of the LSC, will write to the hon. Member about them. A copy of his letter will be placed in the Libraries.