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Comprehensive Schools

Volume 905: debated on Friday 20 February 1976

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asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he is now able to publish the list of local authorities, with amounts, taking up the special allocation of £25 million of aid to comprehensive reorganisation.

I have informed the local education authorities concerned of the projects accepted for inclusion in the list of those eligible to start within the £23 million capital authorisation for England. They have been included on the basis of the cost estimates submitted by authorities save where accepted at a reduced size. The estimate for each authority is given below. Major projects must be submitted for approval at tender stage and the total value of projects to be started contained within the national figure.

£000
Barking230
Barnet55
Bexley
Brent
Bromley
Croydon50
Ealing120
Enfield55
Haringey
Harrow130
Havering400
Hillingdon85
Hounslow177
Kingston
Merton
Newham63
Redbridge
Richmond
Sutton122
Waltham Forest100
ILEA2,934
Birmingham201
Coventry225
Dudley150
Sandwell225
Solihull
Walsall400
Wolverhampton430
Knowsley70
Liverpool55*
St. Helens260
Sefton340
Wirral134
Bolton
Bury50
Manchester414
Oldham144
Rochdale92
Salford74
Stockport178
Tameside745
Trafford
Wigan370
Barnsley
Doncaster390
Rotherham
Sheffield200
Bradford230
Calderdale390
Kirklees587
Leeds415
Wakefield486
Gateshead213
Newcastle559
North Tyneside60
South Tyneside200
Sunderland20
Isles of Scilly
Avon
Bedfordshire50
Berkshire407
Bucks
Cambridgeshire115
Cheshire562
Cleveland74
Cornwall350
Cumbria198
Derbyshire492
Devon342
Dorset602
Durham358
East Sussex235
Essex230
Gloucestershire183
Hampshire130
Hereford and Worcester330
Hertfordshire400
Humberside52
Isle of Wight
Kent793
Lancashire300
Leicestershire440
Lincolnshire300
Norfolk263
North Yorkshire
Northamptonshire300
Northumberland205
Nottinghamshire519
Oxfordshire
Salop160
Somerset
Staffordshire669
Suffolk382
Surrey20
Warwickshire275
West Sussex207
Wiltshire
*An additional project or projects may be considered within a maximum total costing of approximately £200,000.