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Pupils: Greater London

Answer

The average per student funding of secondary schools in rural, urban and inner-London settings is set out for the financial years 2004-05 and 2009-10 in the following table. Data are not available before 2004-05 as the urban/rural classification was only created in 2004. To produce urban/rural data for all years would be at disproportionate cost so a comparator of inner London and rest of England has been provided for intervening years.

The Education (Budget Statements) (England) Regulations, total budget share (plus grants)¹, ² per pupil³ in secondary schools4 in England in inner London4 and rest of England 2004-05 to 2009-10 (with an urban/rural split in RoE: 2004-05 and 2009-10), cash terms5 figures as reported by local authorities as at 12 January 2010
	Total budget share (plus grants) per pupil (£)
	Inner London	Urban (excluding inner London)	Rural	Rest of England (i.e. excluding inner London)	England
2004-05	4,580	3,440	3,250	3,410	3,460
2005-06	4,970	—	—	3,700	3,760
2006-07	5,380	—	—	4,040	4,100
2007-08	6,020	—	—	4,380	4,440
2008-09	6,260	—	—	4,560	4,630
2009-10	6,480	4,750	4,430	4,700	4,770
¹ Budget share plus grants allocated to schools is the combination of the schools individual budget share plus any revenue grants allocated to the school at the start of the financial year. This does not include any capital funding allocated to schools.
² The amount of money allocated to a school depends on the school funding policy of each local authority. There will be differences between authorities in the amounts of funding held centrally to spend on behalf of their schools.
³ The pupil numbers used to calculate the per pupil amounts are as reported by the local authority on their Section 52 Budget Statement (Table 2), comprising the full-time equivalent number of pupils registered at the school, used for the initial determination of the school's budget share under the local authority's allocation formula.
4 Included are all local authority maintained primary schools which are reported by their LA as being open for the entire final year (schools that are reported as either opening or closing during the financial year have been removed).
5 Figures are rounded to nearest £10.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

506 c316-8W; 310541

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Pupils Per capita costs

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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