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Pupils: Per Capita Costs

Answer

The information on school based expenditure per pupil and combined local authority and school based expenditure per pupil from 1996-97 to 2007-08 is contained within the following tables.The Learning and Skills Council is responsible for funding schools sixth forms and FE and sixth form colleges. I will ask the LSC's chief executive, Geoff Russell, to write to my hon. Friend with the information requested for sixth form students in schools in York and York College.

£ cash terms
	Primary school based expenditure per pupil	Pre-primary and primary school based expenditure per pupil	Secondary school based expenditure per pupil	Combined LA and school based expenditure per pupil
1996-97	4—	1,540	2,210	2,500
1997-98¹	4—	1,600	2,350	2,590
1998-99¹	4—	1,730	2,460	2,690
1999-2000²,³	1,760	1,800	2,430	2,710
2000-01	1,860	1,870	2,640	2,850
2001-02	2,180	2,260	2,830	3,130
2002-03	2,390	4—	3,080	3,270
2003-04	2,560	4—	3,330	3,740
2004-05	2,680	4—	3,660	3,900
2005-06	2,930	4—	3,860	4,180
2006-07	3,140	4—	3,970	4,400
2007-08	3,290	4—	4,190	4,810

£ real terms (2008-09 prices)
	Primary school based expenditure per pupil	Pre-primary and primary school based expenditure per pupil	Secondary school based expenditure per pupil	Combined LA and school based expenditure per pupil
1996-97	4—	2,050	2,940	3,320
1997-98¹	4—	2,070	3,050	3,350
1998-99¹	4—	2,190	3,130	3,420
1999-2000²,³	2,190	2,240	3,030	3,370
2000-01	2,280	2,300	3,250	3,500
2001-02	2,620	2,710	3,400	3,760
2002-03	2,780	4—	3,590	3,810
2003-04	2,890	4—	3,770	4,230
2004-05	2,960	4—	4,030	4,300
2005-06	3,170	4—	4,170	4,520
2006-07	3,290	4—	4,170	4,620
2007-08	3,360	4—	4,280	4,910
¹ Combined local authority and school based expenditure includes all expenditure on the education of children in local authority maintained establishments and pupils educated by the authority other than in maintained establishments. This includes both school based expenditure and all elements of central LA expenditure except youth and community and capital expenditure from revenue (CERA). Pupil figures include all pre-primary pupils, including those under 5s funded by the authority and being educated in private settings (only available from 1999-2000), pupils educated in maintained mainstream schools and any other local authority maintained pupils. All pupil numbers are adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
² Spending in 1997-98 reflects the transfer of monies from local government to central Government for the nursery vouchers scheme. These were returned to local government from 1998-99.
³ Figures prior to 1999-00 exclude any expenditure on service, strategy and regulation.
4 Denotes figures are not available or have not been scored on a consistent basis.
Notes:
1. The expenditure data to 1998-99 are drawn from the annual 'R01' spending returns which local authorities submitted to the former Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) (now CLG). Figures for 1999-2000 to 2001-02 are drawn from Section 52 (Table 3) Outturn statements which local authorities submitted to the then DFES (now DCSF). Figures for 2002-03 onwards are taken from Section 52 (Table A) Outturn statements. The change in sources is marked by an empty row.
2. School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by local authority maintained 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. The pupil data are drawn from the DCSF Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
3. From 2002-03 onwards the school based expenditure calculation is broadly similar to the calculation in previous years. However, 2001-02 and earlier years includes all premature retirement compensation (PRC) and Crombie payments, mandatory PRC payments and other indirect employee expenses, while from 2002-03 only the schools element of these categories is included. In 2001-02 this accounted for approximately £70 per pupil of the England total, while the schools element of these categories accounted for approximately £50 per pupil of the England total in 2002-03. Also, for some LAs, expenditure that had previously been attributed to the school sectors was reported within the LA part of the form from 2002-03 and would therefore be excluded from the school based expenditure calculation, though this is not quantifiable from existing sources.
4. Expenditure was distinguished between the pre-primary and primary sector until the inception of Section 52 for the 1999-00 financial year. Consequently we have provided a combined figure for pre-primary and primary schools for 1996-97 to 2001-02 financial years.
5. 1999-2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the R01 form collected by the ODPM to the Section 52 form from the DCSF. 2002-03 saw a further break in the time series following the introduction of Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) to schools and the associated restructuring of the outturn tables.
6. Secondary school based expenditure includes all expenditure incurred directly by local authority maintained secondary schools. It is not possible from existing sources to distinguish this expenditure between expenditure on 11 to 16-year-olds and expenditure on 6th form pupils attending maintained secondary schools.
7. The expenditure data for 1999-2000 onwards reflect the return of grant maintained schools to local authority maintenance.
8. Figures are rounded to the nearest £10. As reported by York local authority as at 10 July 2009.
9. Cash figures are converted to 2008-09 prices using the 30 June 2009 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) deflators.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

285781; 496 c639-40W

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Pupils York Per capita costs

Contains statistics

Yes

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