HC Deb 23 January 2003 vol 398 cc464-5W
Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much money per(a) secondary and (b) primary school pupil is allocated in the local government education spending formula as a top-up to reflect additional costs for recruitment and retention of staff in (i) Staffordshire and (ii) other shire counties, for the year 2003–04. [91886]

Mr. Miliband

[holding answer 21 January 2003]: Staffordshire is not amongst those shire counties which will receive this top-up in 2003–04. The Area Cost Adjustment is given to those areas whose average wages are above a threshold. The average amount per pupil that shire counties will receive to reflect the additional costs of recruitment and retention through the Area Cost Adjustment is £57 for primary pupils and £72 for secondary pupils.

Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much money per(a) secondary and (b) primary school pupil is allocated in the Local Government Education spending formula as basic entitlement in (i) Staffordshire and (ii) other shire counties, for the year 2003–04. [91887]

Mr. Miliband

[holding answer 21 January 2003]: The amount allocated for each secondary and primary pupil as the basic entitlement in 2003–04 is the same for all authorities. For a primary pupil it is £2,006 and for a secondary pupil it is £2,659.

Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much money per(a) secondary and (b) primary school pupil is allocated in the Local Government Education spending formula as a top-up to reflect deprivation among pupils in (i) Staffordshire and (ii) other shire counties, for the year 2003–04. [91888]

Mr. Miliband

[holding reply 21 January 2003]: The additional amount allocated for each secondary and primary school pupil in deprived circumstances is the same for all authorities—in 2003–04 it is –1,300 per pupil.

Taken as an average over each category of pupil, whether they are deprived or not, the average additional amount for deprivation for each pupil in 2003–04 is as follows:

£
Primary Secondary
Staffordshire 40 39
Shire counties average 43 41

The average for Staffordshire is lower than that for all shire counties because Staffordshire has a lower proportion of pupils in deprived circumstances than some other counties.