§ Mr. HendryTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the budget for 2003–04 for the Connexions service is for each(a) local education authority and (b) Careers Service area; and how many young people there are in each of those areas. [128953]
§ Margaret Hodge[holding answer 11 September 2003]: The Connexions Service is provided nationally by 47 Connexions Partnerships. The budget allocations for each Partnership and the number of young people in each Partnership area is given below. The careers service functions are now subsumed within Connexions. How much is spent in each local authority area is a matter for Connexions Partnership to decide based on local needs.
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13–19 year old population & grant allocations by Connexions partnership 13–19 population Total grant allocation (2003–04) £ million Bedfordshire & Luton 50,443 4,738,377 Berkshire 70,668 6,233,298 Birmingham & Solihull 115,837 13,035,551 Black Country 98,410 11,471,386 Bournemouth, Dorset & Poole 56,469 5,005,025 Cambridgeshire & Peterborough 62,544 5,839,068 Central London 102,829 15,335,249 Cheshire & Warrington 74,385 6,849,066 Cornwall & Devon 133,053 12,511,182 County Durham 45,259 4,691,191 Coventry & Warwickshire 72,316 6,959,745 Cumbria 40,809 4,211,678 Derbyshire 79,903 7,817,476 East London 169,356 21,649,094 Essex, Southend & Thurrock 132,913 12,621,280 Gloucestershire 48,280 4,386,413 Greater Manchester 237,663 26,251,106 Greater Merseyside 143,438 17,407,792 Hereford & Worcester 59,096 5,495,746 Hertfordshire 89,549 7,584,278 Humber 79,679 8,531,852 Kent & Medway 136,973 12,940,734 Lancashire 128,522 12,709,953
13–19 year old population & grant allocations by Connexions partnership 13–19 population Total grant allocation (2003–04) £ million Leicestershire 82,252 8,188,625 Lincolnshire & Rutland 57,822 5,392,320 M. Keynes, Oxfordshire & Bucks. 114,576 10,293,332 Norfolk 63,483 6,270,498 North London 83,678 9,774,835 Northamptonshire 55,557 5,563,219 Northumberland 27,006 2,875,134 Nottinghamshire 91,166 9,642,650 Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin 39,214 3,628,394 Somerset 42,114 3,719,593 South Central 153,355 14,244,717 South London 105,237 10,330,508 South Yorkshire 112,859 12,356,833 Staffordshire 92,935 9,234,154 Suffolk 54,878 5,157,784 Surrey 87,305 7,866,666 Sussex 115,980 11,075,372 Tees Valley 63,221 7,142,333 Tyne & Wear 100,435 11,664,903 West London 111,400 12,056,005 West of England 84,132 7,889,859 West Yorkshire 191,799 20,541,868 Wiltshire & Swindon 51,484 4,778,769 York & North Yorks. 65,939 5,391,600 Total England 4,276,221 439,356,51 The 13–19 population data on which Connexions Service funding allocations are based use a combination of 13–15 year old Pupils in school taken from the Annual School Census at January 2001 and the number of 16–19 year olds from the Estimated Resident Population Mid—2000 based on the 1991 Census by single year of age.