HC Deb 14 June 2004 vol 422 c781W
Ms Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children in Stoke-on-Trent, North have benefited from the Excellence in Cities programme; and what the per pupil spending was in each year since the programme's inception. [177640]

Mr. Miliband

The table shows the number of children in Stoke-on-Trent North benefiting from EiC, and the annual spend per pupil for the years in question.

£
Number of

children

Total EiC

expenditure1

Spend per

pupil

2000–01 4,742 263,890 55.65
2001–02 4,673 483,160 103.39
2002–03 4,799 511,690 106.62
2003–04 4,799 1,845,670 384.59
1 All funding figures supplied by Stoke on Trent Excellence in Cities Team