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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

James Purnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much public funding was spent per pupil in Stalybridge and Hyde in each of the last seven years. [168759] Mr. Miliband: The information requested is submitted to the Department according to local education authority areas rather than districts within an area. Stalybridge and Hyde is a district of Tameside local education authority. The information for Tameside LEA is as follows: Net current expenditure per pupil £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Pre- Primary Primary Education Pre-Primary and Secondary Education Special Schools Education Primary Education 1996-97 n/a n/a 1,743 2,304 12,097 1997-98 n/a n/a 1,779 2,449 12,876 1998-99 n/a n/a 1,929 2,528 13,371 1999-2000 11,672 2,065 2,116 2,579 22,081 2000-01 21,005 2,237 2,334 2,860 24,175 2001-02 25,103 2,690 2,794 3,221 21,455 2002-03 -- 2,786 -- 3,260 -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. The financial data are taken from Tameside LEA's Section 52 Outturn Statement submitted to the DfES from 1999-2000 onwards and the ODPM's R01 statement previously. Expenditure was not distinguished between pre-primary and primary sectors until the inception of the Section 52 outturn statement in 1999-2000. 1999-2000 figures reflect the return of GM schools to local authority maintenance. 2. The outturn 2002-03 tables captured the data in a fundamentally different way to the previous years. Categories were aligned with the Consistent Financial Reporting framework and the spending by LEAs was no longer split by school sector. Consequently the unit costs per pupil in 2002-03 are not strictly comparable with earlier years as they include an apportionment of LEA expenditure based on pupil numbers. 2002-03 data is subject to change by the LEA. Figures are adjusted to 2002-03 prices using the March 2004 GDP deflators. 3. Net current expenditure (NCE) includes expenditure within schools and also that incurred centrally by the LEAs. 4. The NCE per pupil figures for pre-primary and primary relate the net current expenditure (after recharges) in the pre-primary sector and maintained primary schools to the total number of financial year pupils who are educated in the maintained nursery and primary schools sector. 5. The NCE per pupil figures for secondary relate the net current expenditure (after recharges) in maintained secondary schools to the total number of financial year pupils who are educated in the maintained secondary schools sector. 6. The NCE per pupil figures for special schools relate the net current expenditure (after recharges) in maintained special schools to the total number of financial year pupils who are educated in the maintained special schools sector. 7. Pupil data are drawn from the Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

168759; 421 c1234W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Education Pre-school education Pupils Primary education Per capita costs Stalybridge and Hyde

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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