HC Deb 14 January 2003 vol 397 cc577-8W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what SSA allocation the City of Newcastle received in(a) 2001–02, (b) 2002–03 and (c) 2003–04; and what was (i) the LEA spend and (ii) the size of the schools budget in (A) 2001–02 and (B) 2002–03. [89106]

Mr. Miliband

[holding answer 9 January 2003]: The following table contains the information requested. The Department is in the process of collecting spend data for the 2001–02 financial year and I will write to my hon. friend when it is available. The Department is not due to collect data for 2002–03 until September 2003.

£ million
Financial Year SSA Budget
2001–02 117.95 111.11
2002–03 115.33 104.78
2003–04 126.74 (provisional)

Notes:

The SSA figure for 2003–04 is provisional and not comparable with 2002–03. The figures for 2002–03 and 2003–04 exclude provision transferred to the LSC from 2002–03. The figure for 2003–04 includes grant and pension funding transferred into EFS in 2003–04.

In 2003–04 Newcastle's Education Formula Spending Share rose by 6 per cent. per pupil or 5.7 per cent. in cash terms. The overall cash increase does not compare with last year's Education SSA because of the transfers mentioned above.

The education budgets for 2001–02 and 2002–03 are derived from Newcastle's S52 Budget Statements for those years—as submitted to the Department.