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Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Answer

Mr. Barnes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the standard spending assessment for 2000-01 for each shire county local education authority divided by the number of pupils and ranked and numbered in descending order. [102721] Ms Beverley Hughes: The following table shows the ranked education standard spending assessment per pupil figures for shire counties. Provisional 2000-01 Education Standard Spending Assessment per pupil--shire counties (in descending order) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Local authority Education SSA (£/pupil) Ranking Hertfordshire 2,864 1 East Sussex 2,848 2 Essex 2,831 3 Kent 2,831 4 Surrey 2,810 5 Oxfordshire 2,794 6 Buckinghamshire 2,787 7 Durham 2,778 8 Bedfordshire 2,768 9 Cornwall 2,758 10 Norfolk 2,746 11 West Sussex 2,740 12 Lancashire 2,730 13 Lincolnshire 2,724 14 Cumbria 2,715 15 Devon 2,714 16 Northumberland 2,713 17 North Yorkshire 2,683 18 Nottinghamshire 2,680 19 Suffolk 2,676 20 Shropshire 2,665 21 Hampshire 2,664 22 Northamptonshire 2,657 23 Somerset 2,646 24 Cambridgeshire 2,644 25 Dorset 2,642 26 Wiltshire 2,634 27 Gloucestershire 2,631 28 Derbyshire 2,613 29 Warwickshire 2,610 30 Cheshire 2,602 31 Worcestershire 2,599 32 Staffordshire 2,580 33 Leicestershire 2,556 34 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Pupils are the sum of Pupils aged 4, 5-10, 11-15, and 16+ as defined in the Draft Local Government Finance Report.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

102721; 341 c100-1W

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Finance Education Local education authorities Standard spending assessments

Contains statistics

Yes