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Dept for Education and Employment

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Mr. Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of total spending on education is retained by each local education authority for the purpose of central administration. [98361] Ms Estelle Morris: The following table shows, for local education authorities in England for 1999-2000, the planned central administration expenditure as a percentage of the total education spend. Central administration as percentage of total education budget _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Percentage City of London 16.5 Camden 2.5 Greenwich 3.5 Hackney 1.9 Hammersmith and Fulham 1.9 Islington 2.8 Kensington and Chelsea 3.2 Lambeth 1.6 Lewisham 2.6 Southwark 2.4 Tower Hamlets 2.4 Wandsworth 1.9 Westminster 0.9 Barking/Dagenham 1.6 Barnet 2.4 Bexley 2.4 Brent 1.8 Bromley 2.3 Croydon 1.8 Ealing 1.4 Enfield 1.1 Haringey 2.8 Harrow 2.4 Havering 1.8 Hillingdon 1.4 Hounslow 2.5 Kingston 1.8 Merton 3.3 Newham 1.6 Redbridge 2.8 Richmond 2.2 Sutton 2.3 Waltham Forest 2.4 Birmingham 2.0 Coventry 1.8 Dudley 2.5 Sandwell 1.8 Solihull 1.8 Walsall 1.2 Wolverhampton 1.8 Knowsley 2.3 Liverpool 2.2 St. Helens 2.1 Sefton 1.3 Wirral 2.1 Bolton 1.3 Bury 2.7 Manchester 3.9 Oldham 1.2 Rochdale 1.7 Salford 2.3 Stockport 1.2 Tameside 1.9 Trafford 1.5 Wigan 1.7 Barnsley 0.8 Doncaster 1.4 Rotherham 1.5 Sheffield 1.3 Bradford 1.1 Calderdale 2.0 Kirklees 1.6 Leeds 1.6 Wakefield 1.4 Gateshead 2.0 Newcastle 1.9 North Tyneside 1.5 South Tyneside 2.0 Sunderland 1.8 Isles of Scilly 6.3 Bath and North East Somerset 1.4 Bristol 2.2 North Somerset 1.8 South Gloucestershire 2.3 Hartlepool 2.6 Middlesbrough 3.1 Redcar and Cleveland 3.7 Stockton on Tees 1.7 Hull 1.6 East Riding 1.8 North East Lincolnshire 1.9 North Lincolnshire 2.1 North Yorkshire 1.3 York 2.2 Bedfordshire 1.4 Luton 1.8 Buckinghamshire 1.6 Milton Keynes 1.1 Derbyshire 1.4 Derby City 1.6 Dorset 2.0 Poole 1.6 Bournemouth 2.5 Durham 1.3 Darlington 1.1 East Sussex 2.6 Brighton and Hove 2.5 Hampshire 1.5 Portsmouth 1.9 Southampton 1.9 Leicestershire 2.2 Leicester City 1.3 Rutland 2.0 Staffordshire 1.4 Stoke-on-Trent 2.1 Wiltshire 2.0 Swindon 2.6 Bracknell Forest 3.2 Windsor and Maidenhead 1.8 West Berkshire 1.8 Reading 2.3 Slough 2.1 Wokingham 2.5 Cambridgeshire 1.5 Peterborough 1.8 Cheshire 1.2 Halton 2.2 Warrington 1.2 Devon 2.1 Plymouth 1.6 Torbay 2.5 Essex 1.2 Southend-on-Sea 1.2 Thurrock 2.3 Herefordshire 2.7 Worcestershire 1.5 Kent 1.8 Medway Towns 1.8 Lancashire 1.1 Blackburn with Darwen 2.8 Blackpool 1.6 Nottinghamshire 1.5 Nottingham City 1.6 Shropshire 1.1 Telford and Wrekin 1.4 Cornwall 1.2 Cumbria 1.3 Gloucestershire 1.4 Hertfordshire 1.0 Isle of Wight 1.7 Lincolnshire 0.9 Norfolk 1.2 Northamptonshire 1.4 Northumberland 1.9 Oxfordshire 0.7 Somerset 0.8 Suffolk 1.3 Surrey 1.8 Warwickshire 1.2 West Sussex 1.9 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

98361; 337 c754-6W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Administration Finance Education Expenditure Local education authorities Operating costs

Contains statistics

Yes