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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school budgets in Greater London, broken down by local education authority, were in deficit in each of the last seven years. [170498] Mr. Miliband: The information requested is only available for the last four years and is contained in the following table: Numbers of schools in Greater London with deficit budgets _________________________________________________________________________________________________. LEA name 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 City of London 0 0 0 0 Camden 4 0 2 6 Greenwich 23 13 21 24 Hackney 21 15 21 13 Hammersmith and Fulham 3 2 5 10 Islington 10 3 2 7 Kensington and Chelsea 4 1 3 2 Lambeth 19 12 13 14 Lewisham 10 11 20 22 Southwark 10 9 21 22 Tower Hamlets 20 17 23 26 Wandsworth 6 5 4 8 Westminster 9 17 12 11 Barking and Dagenham 14 4 6 14 Barnet 5 8 16 5 Bexley 11 5 11 10 Brent 10 10 14 17 Bromley 13 11 8 15 Croydon 7 2 2 9 Ealing 9 7 5 5 Enfield 5 5 4 5 Haringey 32 23 18 11 Harrow 2 2 0 2 Havering 5 6 4 7 Hillingdon 8 11 13 10 Hounslow 9 6 6 13 Kingston-upon-Thames 3 3 3 4 Merton 5 3 4 3 Newham 14 17 20 20 Redbridge 6 4 4 8 Richmond-upon-Thames 3 2 2 6 Sutton 1 2 3 2 Waltham Forest 10 7 12 13 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. The data are taken from local education authorities' Section 52 Outturn Statements submitted to the DfES. Financial data used to determine budget is taken to the nearest pound. 2. School level data has only been collected by the DfES since the inception of Section 52 in 1999-2000. 3. For 1999-2000 to 2001-02 the data are taken from the Balance Carried Forward column. In 2002-03 data comes from Other Revenue Balance. 4. 2002-03 data subject to changes by the LEA which may alter the results for that period.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

170498; 421 c1534W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Finance Greater London Local education authorities Schools

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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