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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school budgets in Greater London, were in deficit in each of the last seven years, broken down by local education authority. [214642] Mr. Stephen Twigg: The information requested is available from 1999-2000 onwards, prior to this school level data was not collected by my Department. Data from 1999-2000 onwards is contained within the following table: Number of schools in Greater London with deficit budgets1, 2 (1999-2000 to 2003-04)3, 4, 5 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. LEA name 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 Greater London 297 220 240 300 293 Barking and Dagenham 14 4 6 13 19 Barnet 5 8 7 5 6 Bexley 10 5 8 5 5 Brent 10 10 14 16 17 Bromley 13 11 4 14 26 Camden 4 0 2 6 5 City of London 0 0 0 0 0 Croydon 7 2 2 7 14 Ealing 7 4 4 5 4 Enfield 5 5 4 5 4 Greenwich 23 13 18 18 12 Hackney 21 15 17 12 11 Hammersmith and Fulham 3 2 3 5 9 Haringey 28 19 18 11 10 Harrow 1 1 0 1 1 Havering 5 6 4 5 6 Hillingdon 8 11 12 8 7 Hounslow 9 6 6 13 10 Islington 10 3 2 7 9 Kensington and Chelsea 4 1 3 2 2 Kingston upon Thames 3 3 3 3 3 Lambeth 19 5 7 13 12 Lewisham 9 9 11 14 12 Merton 4 3 4 2 6 Newham 14 17 18 20 14 Redbridge 6 4 4 8 10 Richmond upon Thames 3 2 2 6 3 Southwark 10 9 11 22 0 Sutton 1 2 2 2 1 Tower Hamlets 16 13 22 26 22 Waltham Forest 10 7 8 9 17 Wandsworth 6 5 4 7 10 Westminster 9 15 10 10 6 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Financial data used to determine budget is taken to the nearest pound. 2 Due to changes in data items recorded on Section 52, school level balance data is now reported as the combination of any unspent allocations (including unspent Standards Fund grants) and the cumulative balance of income less expenditure from revenue funding sources during the financial year and any balances carried forward from previous years. Previously unspent allocations were excluded from the calculation of school balances but from 2003-04 onwards we are not able to split these out and as a result these figures for 1999-2000 to 2002-03 may differ from figures released previously by the department. 3 School level data has only been collected by the DfES since the inception of Section 52 in 1999-2000. 4 Figures for 1999-2000 to 2002-03 are for LEA maintained primary, secondary and special schools. 2003-04 figures also include those LEA maintained nursery schools with delegated budgets. 5 2003-04 data is still undergoing data cleaning and is therefore subject to charges by the LEA which may after the results for that period. Note: As reported by LEAs as at 3 February 2005.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

430 c1540-2W; 214642

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Finance Greater London Local education authorities Schools

Link

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