Written question asked by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 4 July 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 6 July 2005. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Tuesday, 12 July 2005 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Education (Sutton)

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2005, Official Report, column 1446W, on spending per pupil, what the figures were for the London borough of Sutton.

Answer

The information requested is contained within the following table:

School based expenditure per pupil for Sutton LEAin 1985–86 and 2003–04⁽³³⁾
£ per pupil
	1985–86	2003–04
LEA maintained primary schools	750	2,640
LEA maintained secondary schools	1,140	3,550
LEA maintained special schools	—	13,630
⁽³³⁾ School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by the schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure.
⁽³⁴⁾ Pupil numbers include only those pupils attending LEA maintained schools and are drawn from the DfES Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
⁽³⁵⁾ 1999–2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RO1 form collected by the ODPM to the Section 52 form from the DfES. 2003–04 is the latest year for which figures are available.
⁽³⁶⁾ The main difference between the 1985–86 and 2003–04 figures is that meals and milk is no longer excluded and that no adjustments for balances are now made. However, 1985–86 also includes all premature retirement compensation (PRC) and Crombie payments, mandatory PRC payments and other indirect employee expenses, while in 2003–04 only the schools element of these categories is included. Also, for some LEAs, expenditure that had previously been attributed to the school sectors was reported within the LEA part of the form in 2003–04 and would therefore be excluded, though this is not quantifiable from existing sources.
⁽³⁷⁾ Figures are reported in cash terms and rounded to the nearest 10 as reported by the LEA.
⁽³⁸⁾ Figures for 1985–86 are published in the Departments Statistics of Education, Finance and Awards volume 1985. The all England figure published in the earlier Official Report, column 1446W, was taken as an aggregate of the individual LEA level unit costs for special schools. The individual LEA special School data are no longer available and therefore are not included in the answer to this PQ.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 436 c1013-4W;436 c1013-4W; 10187
Session: 2005-06
Subjects: Education Sutton

Education (Sutton)

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