asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish the expenditure of education for each local authority in England; and what these represent: (a) per head of population and (b) per person of school age.

My Department does not prepare figures of expenditure or of unit costs for each local education authority, but this information can be derived from the education statistics published annually by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, copies of which are available in the Library.