HC Deb 16 July 2003 vol 409 cc346-7W
Mr. Reed

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils there have been in Leicestershire local education authority area in each year since 1996–97. [125252]

Mr. Miliband

The information requested is shown in the table for each year since 1998. Prior to this Leicestershire local education authority incorporated Leicester City, Rutland and rest of Leicestershire.

All schools: Number (headcount) of pupils by type of school— position in January each year 1998 to 20031
Leicestershire local education authority
Nursery Primary Secondary2 Special3 Independent All schools
1998 50 49,740 41,797 415 5,368 97,370
1999 50 50,205 42,598 431 5,288 98,572
2000 50 50,398 43,667 432 5,168 99,715
2001 51 51,193 44,736 457 5,242 101,679
2002 50 50,785 45,431 483 5,460 102,209
20031 35 50,319 46,383 504 5,549 102,790
1 Provisional
1 For 1998 and 1999 includes grant maintained secondary schools.
3 Maintained special school in Leicestershire LEA.

Source:

Annual Schools' Census

Mr. Reed

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the(a) percentage and (b) actual cash increase in education funding for Leicestershire county council for each year since 1991–92. [125253]

Mr. Miliband

The following table shows the total education standard spending assessment (ESSA) and revenue grant plus total capital funding allocated to Leicestershire local education authority for the financial

1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03
Total ESSA and Revenue Grant (£ million) 207.7 221.5 239.0 263.9 288.4 310.8
Cash change (£million) 13.8 17.5 24.9 24.5 22.4
Percentage change 7 8 10 9 8
Total Capital funding (£ million) 2.9 5.5 8.3 18.9 12.8 20.7
Cash change (£million) 2.6 2.8 10.6 -6.1 7.9
Percentage change 90 51 128 -32 62