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Written question asked by Dan Norris (Labour) on Thursday, 16 February 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 27 February 2006. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Tuesday, 7 March 2006 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

School Finance

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the annual funding per pupil has been in (a) Bath and North East Somerset and (b) South Gloucestershire in each year since 1992.
Answer

As a result of data changes and changes to the school funding system, comparable figures are not available for 1992–97. The table sets out the figures in real terms for each financial year from 1997–98 to 2005–06. Total funding includes funding via Education Formula Spending/Standard Spending Assessment and revenue grants allocated at an LEA level.In 2003–04 an additional £640 million was transferred into Education Formula Spending in respect of teachers pensions. This transfer has been excluded from the figures provided so they are on a comparable basis for years before and after the transfer.

Funding per pupil aged three to 19 in Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire £
Real terms, excluding pensions transfer toEPS and LSC 1997–98 to 2005–06
Bath and North East Somerset South Gloucestershire
1997–98 2,680 2,610
1998–99 2,750 2,680
1999–2000 2,890 2,810
2000–01 3,100 2,990
2001–02 3,200 3,090
2002–03 3,300 3,210
2003–04 3,410 3,340
2004–05 3,570 3,480
2005–06 3,760 3,660
Notes: 1. Price base: Real terms at 2004–05 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 23 December 2005. 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of Standard Spending Assessment/Education Formula Spending (EFS) settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS and LSC. 3. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES departmental expenditure limits relevant to pupils aged three to 19 and exclude Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level. 4. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC three-year-old maintained pupils and estimated three to four-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers. 5. Rounding: figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Status: 2005–06 figures are provisional as some grants have not yet been finalised/audited.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
443 c1464-5W;443 c1464-5W; 54365
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Finance Schools Somerset Gloucestershire
Link
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