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Dept for Education and Employment

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Mrs. Peacock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the percentage of each of the metropolitan counties' education budget which is spent on (a) schools and (b) on non-school expenditure together with the amount of money this represents per school pupil in each case. [8882] Mr. Robin Squire: The following table shows for each metropolitan county local education authority the percentage of net recurrent expenditure spent in 1993-94, the latest year for which figures are available, on: (a) pre-primary, primary, secondary and special schools; and (b) other education services, including education other than at school, adult education, continuing education, discretionary awards, youth and other community services, service strategy and regulation and education support services. The table also shows the amount spent per pupil, although in the case of non- schools expenditure school pupils are not the principal clients and the figures are not therefore meaningful. Expenditure on Education and its cost per pupil--Metropolitan LEAs Net recurrent expenditure 1993-94 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Pre-primary/primary secondary and special Non-school Percentage of Cost per pupil Percentage of Cost per pupil expenditure (a) expenditure (b) Birmingham 95 2,313 5 112 Coventry 90 2,319 10 248 Dudley 90 1,950 10 210 Sandwell 94 2,241 6 152 Solihull 94 1,939 6 121 Walsall 89 2,103 11 247 Wolverhampton 91 2,313 9 215 Knowsley 91 2,393 9 239 Liverpool 93 2,260 7 182 St. Helens 96 2,270 4 87 Sefton 96 2,102 4 86 Wirral 93 2,210 7 176 Bolton 94 2,074 6 130 Bury 93 2,084 7 146 Manchester 94 2,531 6 150 Oldham 94 2,110 6 143 Rochdale 92 2,130 8 182 Salford 94 2,107 6 127 Stockport 89 1,954 11 247 Tameside 93 1,975 7 139 Trafford 96 2,095 4 93 Wigan 96 2,093 4 77 Barnsley 94 2,090 6 143 Doncaster 97 2,236 3 79 Rotherham 94 2,187 6 134 Sheffield 90 2,161 10 230 Bradford 96 2,276 4 90 Calderdale 92 2,049 8 169 Kirklees 91 2,225 9 222 Leeds 91 2,115 9 197 Wakefield 96 2,124 4 98 Gateshead 86 2,167 14 346 Newcastle upon Tyne 89 2,250 11 271 North Tyneside` 94 2,104 6 123 South Tyneside 89 1,950 11 241 Sunderland 95 2,045 5 118 Total 93 2,179 7 161 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

8882; 269 c516-8W;269 c514-6W

Session

1995-96

Subjects

Costs Finance Education Expenditure Local education authorities Pupils Metropolitan counties

Contains statistics

Yes