HC Deb 16 July 2003 vol 409 cc338-40W
Mr. Reed

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the impact of the Area Cost Adjustment on education funding. [125230]

Mr. Miliband

The Area Cost Adjustment provides funding top-ups for areas where it costs more to recruit and retain staff. It uses the New Earnings Survey to calculate earnings differentials between different areas in the country. A threshold is set below which all authorities are given the same area cost adjustment factor. The area cost adjustment factors are set out in the following table:

LEA Area Cost Adjustment
Barking and Dagenham 1.0912
Barnet 1.1447
Barnsley 1.0000
Bath and NE Somerset 1.0279
Bedfordshire 1.0478
Bexley 1.0912
Birmingham 1.0272
Blackburn with Darwen 1.0000

LEA Area Cost Adjustment
Blackpool 1.0000
Bolton 1.0200
Bournemouth 1.0000
Bracknell Forest 1.1384
Bradford 1.0099
Brent 1.1447
Brighton and Hove 1.0113
Bromley 1.0912
Buckinghamshire 1.0943
Bury 1.0200
Calderdale 1.0099
Cambridgeshire 1.0427
Camden 1.2624
Cheshire 1.0215
City of Bristol 1.0279
City of Derby 1.0000
City of Kingston-upon-Hull 1.0000
City of London 1.4569
City of Nottingham 1.0000
City of Peterborough 1.0427
City of Plymouth 1.0000
Cornwall 1.0000
Coventry 1.0272
Croydon 1.0912
Cumbria 1.0000
Darlington 1.0000
Derbyshire 1.0000
Devon 1.0000
Doncaster 1.0000
Dorset 1.0000
Dudley 1.0272
Durham 1.0000
Ealing 1.1447
East Riding of Yorkshire 1.0000
East Sussex 1.0113
Enfield 1.0912
Essex 1.0340
Gateshead 1.0000
Gloucestershire 1.0220
Greenwich 1.2624
Hackney 1.2624
Halton 1.0215
Hammersmith and Fulham 1.2624
Hampshire 1.0361
Haringey 1.0912
Harrow 1.1447
Hartlepool 1.0000
Havering 1.0912
Herefordshire 1.0000
Hertfordshire 1.1034
Hillingdon 1.1447
Hounslow 1.1447
Isle of Wight 1.0361
Isles of Scilly 1.5000
Islington 1.2624
Kensington and Chelsea 1.2624
Kent 1.0327
Kingston-upon-Thames 1.1447
Kirklees 1.0099
Knowsley 1.0116
Lambeth 1.2624
Lancashire 1.0000
Leeds 1.0099
Leicester City 1.0000
Leicestershire 1.0000
Lewisham 1.2624
Lincolnshire 1.0000
Liverpool 1.0116
Luton 1.0478
Manchester 1.0200
Medway 1.0252

LEA Area Cost Adjustment
Merton 1.1447
Middlesbrough 1.0000
Milton Keynes 1.0841
Newcastle upon Tyne 1.0000
Newham 1.0912
Norfolk 1.0000
North East Lincolnshire 1.0000
North Lincolnshire 1.0000
North Somerset 1.0279
North Tyneside 1.0000
North Yorkshire 1.0000
Northamptonshire 1.0285
Northumberland 1.0000
Nottinghamshire 1.0000
Oldham 1.0200
Oxfordshire 1.0794
Poole 1.0000
Portsmouth 1.0361
Reading 1.1252
Redbridge 1.0912
Redcar and Cleveland 1.0000
Richmond upon Thames 1.1447
Rochdale 1.0200
Rotherham 1.0000
Rutland 1.0000
Salford 1.0200
Sandwell 1.0272
Sefton 1.0116
Sheffield 1.0000
Shropshire 1.0000
Slough 1.1384
Solihull 1.0272
Somerset 1.0000
South Gloucestershire 1.0279
South Tyneside 1.0000
Southampton 1.0361
Southend 1.0132
Southwark 1.2624
St Helens 1.0116
Staffordshire 1.0000
Stockport 1.0200
Stockton on Tees 1.0000
Stoke-on-Trent 1.0000
Suffolk 1.0000
Sunderland 1.0000
Surrey 1.1384
Sutton 1.1447
Swindon 1.0304
Tameside 1.0200
Telford and Wrekin 1.0000
Thurrock 1.0760
Torbay 1.0000
Tower Hamlets 1.2624
Trafford 1.0200
Wakefield 1.0099
Walsall 1.0272
Waltham Forest 1.0912
Wandsworth 1.2624
Warrington 1.0215
Warwickshire 1.0292
West Berkshire 1.1252
West Sussex 1.0477
Westminster 1.2624
Wigan 1.0200
Wiltshire 1.0304
Windsor and Maidenhead 1.1384
Wirral 1.0116
Wokingham 1.1252
Wolverhampton 1.0272
Worcestershire 1.0000
York 1.0000