§ Claire WardTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much Government spending there was on each(a) primary school pupil and (b) secondary school pupil in Watford in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2004. [171884]
§ Mr. MilibandThe information requested is submitted to the Department according to local education authority areas rather than districts within an area.786W Watford is a district of Hertfordshire Local Education Authority. The information for Hertfordshire LEA is as follows:
Net current expenditure per pupil £ primary education
Pre-primary and primary
education
Secondary education
1997–98 n/a 1,850 2,670 1998–99 n/a 1,990 2,800 1999–2000 2,060 2,110 2,770 2000–01 2,240 2,310 2,950 2001–02 2,520 2,590 3,250 2002–03 2,800 2,880 3,550 Notes: 1. The financial data are taken from Hertfordshire LEA's Section 52 outturn statement submitted to the DfES from 1999–2000 onwards and the ODPM's ROI statement previously. Spending in 1997–98 reflects the transfer of monies from local government to central Government fot the nursery vouchers scheme. These were returned to local government in 1998–99. 1999–2000 figures reflect the return of GM schools to local authority maintenance. Expenditure was not distinguished between pre-primary and primary sectors until the inception of the Section 52 outturn statement in 1999–2000. 2. The outturn 2002–03 tables captured the data in a fundamentally different way to the previous years. Categories were aligned with the Consistent Financial Reporting framework and the spending by LEAs was no longer split by school sector. Consequently the unit costs per pupil in 2002–03 are not strictly comparable with earlier years as they include an apportionment of LEA expenditure based on pupil numbers. 2002–03 data is subject to change by the LEA and is the latest data available. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Net current expenditure (NCE) includes expenditure within schools and also that incurred centrally by the LEA. 4. The NCE per pupil figures for pre-primary and primary relate the net current expenditure (after recharges) in the pre-primary sector and maintained primary schools to the total number of financial year pupils who are educated in the maintained nursery and primary schools sector. 5. The NCE per pupil figures for secondary relate the net current expenditure (after recharges) in maintained secondary schools to the total number of financial year pupils who are educated in the maintained secondary schools sector. 6. Pupil data are drawn from the Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.