§ Mr. LuffTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in each local education authority area received early years funding in the current financial year; and what the total funding made available in the current financial year under the programme is in each local education authority area. [145431]
§ Mr. MilibandThe Department does not fund schools directly. Local education authorities receive funding through revenue support grant through the calculation of Education Formula Spending Shares for early years provision. The under-five sub-block in the Education Formula Spending Share calculation for 2003–04 was £2.6 billion. However, this funding is unhypothecated and it is for LEAs to decide how much to spend on early 289W years and then allocate resources to schools and other early years settings as appropriate. The Department does not collect allocated budgets for every early year provider.
The Department also provides direct grants specifically for early years programmes. MNS development grant is aimed specifically at the maintained sector. The number of schools benefiting and the amount allocated for each LEA is shown below.
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£ LEA Number of schools Amount of funding allocated Barnet 4 55,172 Barnsley 2 23,215 Bedfordshire 7 74,150 Birmingham 25 204,633 Blackburn with Darwen 9 77,239 Bolton 5 50,208 Bradford 6 54,096 Brent 4 26,457 Brighton and Hove 2 23,459 Bristol, City of 15 161,412 Buckinghamshire 4 37,833 Bury 1 14,150 Cambridgeshire 6 55,899 Camden 1 15,786 Cheshire 2 26,242 Cornwall 2 19,367 Coventry 1 19,772 Croydon 6 56,458 Cumbria 7 64,458 Darlington 6 73,866 Derby 9 65,837 Derbyshire 8 73,890 Devon 1 14,911 Dudley 1 15,170 Durham 15 129,919 Ealing 5 42,732 East Riding of Yorkshire 4 50,981 Essex 2 34,373 Gateshead 1 13,229 Greenwich 6 58,947 Hackney 2 20,474 Halton 4 42,764 Hammersmith and Fulham 5 52,773 Hampshire 3 27,557 Haringey 3 30,324 Hartlepool 1 13,440 Hertfordshire 17 166,387 Hillingdon 1 18,363 Islington 3 31,376 Kensington and Chelsea 4 28,421 Kent 1 14,997 Kingston upon Hull, City of 3 35,139 Kingston upon Thames 1 17,761 Kirklees 3 39,823 Lambeth 5 48,049 Lancashire 30 260,771 Leicester 1 11,559 Leicestershire 1 12,575 Lewisham 2 28,080 Lincolnshire 5 53,656 Liverpool 6 49,282 Luton 6 76,067 Manchester 2 16,972 Milton Keynes 2 20,187 Newcastle upon Tyne 7 58,321 Newham 8 93,567 Norfolk 4 42,662 North East Lincolnshire 3 37,009 North Tyneside 2 22,725 North Yorkshire 3 30,481
£ LEA Number of school Amount of Funding allocated Northamptonshire 8 69,887 Northumberland 1 14,911 Nottingham 4 33,162 Nottinghamshire 2 27,211 Oxfordshire 15 102,601 Peterborough 1 22,090 Plymouth 2 22,189 Portsmouth 1 15,862 Reading 5 56,025 Richmond upon Thames 1 12,921 Rochdale 8 84,765 Rotherham 3 40,766 Salford 13 73,072 Sefton 4 35,400 Sheffield 5 64,889 Slough 5 69,925 South Tyneside 6 41,811 Southampton 1 17,765 Southwark 5 54,963 St. Helens 2 23,474 Staffordshire 9 85,024 Stockport 9 69,917 Stoke-on-Trent 11 69,032 Suffolk 1 17,246 Sunderland 10 77,213 Surrey 5 44,608 Sutton 2 24,549 Tameside 3 27,972 Telford and Wrekin 2 21,312 Tower Hamlets 7 70,166 Wakefield 5 44,749 Walsall 8 74,114 Waltham Forest 4 36,406 Wandsworth 3 26,740 Warrington 1 18,025 Warwickshire 9 70,492 West Berkshire 2 24,557 West Sussex 4 44,263 Westminster 3 25,036 Wigan 2 27,194 Windsor and Maidenhead 4 39,072 Wirral 3 33,044 Wokingham 1 21,658 Wolverhampton 8 60,931 Worcestershire 1 12,575 York 1 17,592 515 5,002,587