Delegated Expenditure (Hansard, 6 January 2004)

§ Mr. Miliband

[holding answer 15 December 2003]: The following table shows the percentage of each LEA's Local Schools Budget delegated to schools in the years 1999–2000 to 2002–03. Data for the percentage of total education expenditure delegated to schools by LEAs will require further work and I will write to the hon. Member.

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335	Walsall	86.1	85.9	86.8	87.2
336	Wolverhampton	82.5	83.8	86.8	87.8
340	Knowsley	80.0	82.8	86.2	87.3
341	Liverpool	81.2	86.2	86.9	87.4
342	St. Helens	81.2	84.0	87.7	88.0
343	Sefton	80.2	86.4	89.5	89.0
344	Wirral	81.6	82.8	87.1	86.7
350	Bolton	80.8	84.2	85.3	86.9
351	Bury	81.3	84.6	86.6	87.1
352	Manchester	77.4	81.8	85.4	87.9
353	Oldham	82.6	86.2	86.7	87.0
354	Rochdale	80.6	83.6	87.4	87.6
355	Salford	77.4	86.0	87.6	87.0
356	Stockport	81.6	82.7	85.1	87.0
357	Tameside	82.1	84.6	85.2	87.6
358	Trafford	82.3	83.1	88.6	88.8
359	Wigan	85.1	87.3	88.8	88.3
370	Barnsley	77.1	82.3	86.6	87.3
371	Doncaster	81.4	83.0	84.7	88.1
372	Rotherham	82.4	87.0	88.9	87.9
373	Sheffield	82.2	83.9	85.7	87.5
380	Bradford	81.4	83.7	86.5	89.0
381	Calderdale	83.1	84.1	85.8	87.9
382	Kirklees	83.2	86.7	88.5	88.3
383	Leeds	85.2	86.2	85.8	87.4
384	Wakefield	77.8	82.3	85.0	87.0
390	Gateshead	78.2	83.4	86.1	84.3
391	Newcastle upon Tyne	75.9	86.2	85.4	87.3
392	North Tyneside	80.4	81.9	86.8	87.4
393	South Tyneside	80.5	83.3	87.0	86.5
394	Sunderland	84.6	85.6	86.7	88.4
800	Bath & North East Somerset	82.6	84.2	85.2	87.8
801	City of Bristol	82.7	85.2	86.1	87.7
802	North Somerset	81.3	82.3	85.4	85.9
803	South Gloucestershire	82.3	82.8	86.3	87.0
805	Hartlepool	81.4	84.3	86.9	87.0
806	Middlesbrough	76.7	84.5	86.3	85.6
807	Redcar and Cleveland	82.2	86.6	87.3	87.6
808	Stockton-on-Tees	81.3	85.7	86.3	87.1
810	City of Kingston Upon Hull	81.0	83.1	85.8	87.1
811	East Riding of Yorkshire	83.2	82.5	86.7	87.1
812	North East Lincolnshire	81.7	85.3	85.0	87.3
813	North Lincolnshire	79.3	81.7	86.8	87.1
815	North Yorkshire	83.7	83.8	86.8	87.3
816	York	83.2	84.3	85.3	87.0
820	Bedfordshire	83.9	85.0	85.1	87.3
821	Luton	81.4	84.5	85.8	87.2
825	Buckinghamshire	79.5	80.5	85.1	85.4
826	Milton Keynes	83.0	83.6	85.3	87.0
830	Derbyshire	84.3	85.5	85.6	86.2
831	Derby	80.2	83.0	85.2	87.6
835	Dorset	79.9	80.2	86.6	86.9
836	Poole	84.5	85.9	87.5	89.5
837	Bournemouth	83.3	85.0	88.0	87.0
840	Durham	80.7	82.3	87.4	86.9
841	Darlington	82.1	82.6	86.6	85.9
845	East Sussex	80.3	81.9	86.9	87.1
846	Brighton and Hove	79.7	81.0	87.3	87.7
850	Hampshire	85.2	85.5	86.4	87.4
851	Portsmouth	86.0	86.3	86.4	87.1
852	Southampton	83.6	86.1	86.9	87.6
855	Leicestershire	83.3	84.2	85.0	84.7
856	Leicester	79.3	80.6	85.1	86.4
857	Rutland	84.4	84.4	86.7	87.1
860	Staffordshire	86.1	84.9	85.3	88.0
861	Stoke-on-Trent	82.1	85.9	88.3	87.0
865	Wiltshire	83.5	83.8	86.1	86.0
866	Swindon	83.2	85.4	86.7	86.3
867	Bracknell Forest	80.0	82.3	85.1	86.0
868	Windsor and Maidenhead	81.9	83.7	85.3	87.0
869	West Berkshire	84.3	86.5	88.7	87.7
870	Reading	80.9	84.3	85.0	86.6
871	Slough	85.5	86.7	87.9	87.7

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872	Wokingham	82.7	84.1	86.1	85.4
873	Cambridgeshire	75.8	81.7	86.5	87.1
874	Peterborough	78.1	86.0	88.1	87.5
875	Cheshire	84.4	84.4	86.1	87.2
876	Halton	81.2	86.7	88.4	87.1
877	Warrington	84.8	86.4	87.0	87.8
878	Devon	81.2	80.5	87.6	87.1
879	Plymouth	82.6	83.8	87.4	87.6
880	Torbay	79.4	81.5	85.0	86.6
881	Essex	83.5	84.4	86.2	87.1
882	Southend-on-Sea	88.4	89.8	90.3	89.6
883	Thurrock	81.9	83.8	84.8	87.3
884	Herefordshire	78.7	81.2	85.1	86.1
885	Worcestershire	81.2	83.2	83.7	86.6
886	Kent	81.3	83.2	85.3	87.3
887	Medway	82.0	84.7	86.2	88.4
888	Lancashire	80.5	81.4	85.4	87.2
889	Blackburn with Darwen	78.0	82.6	85.7	87.1
890	Blackpool	79.1	81.5	85.6	85.6
891	Nottinghamshire	86.0	86.0	85.4	88.2
892	Nottingham	83.9	83.8	85.0	87.0
893	Shropshire	81.4	83.5	87.6	87.0
894	Telford & Wrekin	81.5	84.1	85.1	87.1
908	Cornwall	79.6	79.8	85.8	86.3
909	Cumbria	83.9	85.6	87.8	87.1
916	Gloucestershire	83.4	84.2	85.2	85.4
919	Hertfordshire	83.6	84.7	86.0	87.7
921	Isle of Wight	76.8	83.1	86.2	87.1
925	Lincolnshire	83.7	87.9	90.3	89.3
926	Norfolk	84.5	85.0	87.1	87.0
928	Northamptonshire	86.5	87.2	89.0	87.7
929	Northumberland	81.4	81.3	88.3	88.0
931	Oxfordshire	84.1	84.6	85.4	87.1
933	Somerset	84.6	84.8	85.8	85.4
935	Suffolk	85.6	85.4	86.8	89.1
936	Surrey	82.0	83.8	86.3	87.0
937	Warwickshire	82.1	85.3	86.9	87.3
938	West Sussex	83.5	83.4	87.3	87.9
Notes:

1. The figures shown in the table have previously been published as part of the Department's Comparative Tables and reflect the methods of calculation underlying the comparative tables for each year. This means that they incorporate various adjustments which were made in some or all of these years. For the years 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2002–03, the published comparative tables included information on the level of financial delegation direct to schools by LEAs. The measurement of these levels of delegation were associated with the achievement of delegation targets by LEAs. For each of those years, the average level of delegation stood at 82.4 per cent., 84 per cent., 86.3 per cent. and 87.2 per cent. respectively. The corresponding percentage for 1997–98 was about 79 per cent.
2. The Department does not hold any comparable data for 2003–04. With the Education Act 2002 came the introduction of separate LEA and schools budgets, the establishment of schools forums and the introduction of a reserve power which enables the Secretary of State, in exceptional cases, to set a minimum level for an LEA's local schools budget. As a result, Ministers decided not to set delegation targets of the kind which had operated since 1999.
3. Only about one-tenth of the funding retained centrally by LEAs relates to "central administration". Most of it relates to such items as school transport (about one-fifth of the total retained centrally); special educational needs (SEN); out-of-school education and behaviour

support; and school improvement.