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Written question asked by Andrew Rosindell (Conservative) on Tuesday, 2 February 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 4 February 2010. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Pupils: Per Capita Costs

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department spent per child on (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Greater London and (ii) Romford in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answer

The Department allocates education funding to local authorities so the requested information for Greater London and Romford constituency is not available. The available information on how much was spent per child in primary and secondary schools in Havering and Greater London is shown in the following table:

2008-09
Primary education Secondary education
England 3,780 4,890
Greater London 4,470 5,820
Havering 3,645 5,144
Notes:
1. 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.
2. The calculation for 2002-03 onwards 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. In 2001-02 this accounted for approximately £70 per pupil. From 2002-03 onwards only the schools element of these categories is included and this accounted for approximately £50 per pupil of the 2002-03 total. 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, though this is not quantifiable from existing sources.
3. Pupil numbers include only those pupils attending maintained establishments within each sector and are drawn from the DfES Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
4. Figures are rounded to the nearest £10 and are in Cash Terms.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
506 c537W; 315936
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Greater London Pupils Per capita costs
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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