Educational Expenditure

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish for Wales the directly equivalent information on educational expenditure and numbers to that which is published for England in tables 2.10 and 2.10.1 of Cmnd. 8494–II; and if he will publish the information covered in Table 2.10.2 on a basis which covers Wales alone.

Table 1
Education and Science, Arts and Libraries—Wales
£ million cash prices
		1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85
Schools
Under-5's	Capital	1	—	—	—	—	1	—	—
	Current	14	15	16	18	23	26	30	30	525
Primary, secondary and other	Capital	21	17	18	17	25	28	25	25
Primary	Current	83	90	100	112	138	151	150	150
Secondary	Current	105	114	128	146	183	204	217	230
Other	Current	21	23	27	33	39	41	44	50
Meals		22	22	24	25	23	23	19	20
Milk		1	1	1	1	—	—	—	—
Further Education
	Capital	5	4	4	5	8	8	7	10	100
	Current	41	42	46	54	64	74	77	80
Student Awards		2	3	5	6	6	7	8	10
Miscellaneous

The equivalent information on educational expenditure and numbers in Wales is given in the three following tables.The information contained in these Tables is confined to those areas for which the Welsh Office has responsibility in Wales. Figures for mandatory student awards and universities in Wales for which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science is responsible are not therefore included.

		1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983-–84	1984–85
Youth Service	Capital	1	1	—	—	1	1	1	15	45
	Current	3	3	3	4	4	4	5
Research and other services	Capital	—	—	1	2	2	2	2
	Current	3	3	4	4	5	6	6
Administration	Current	15	16	18	20	24	27	29	30
Total Education	Capital	28	22	23	24	36	40	35	35	670
	Current	310	332	372	422	509	563	585	615	670
Total Education		338	354	395	446	545	603	620	650	670
Arts and Libraries
Central Government	Capital	—	—	2	2	1	1	1	10	30
	Current	3	3	4	5	7	7	8
Local authorities	Capital	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	20
	Current	8	9	10	11	13	15	15
Total Arts and Libraries		12	13	17	19	22	24	25	30	30
Total Programme		350	367	412	465	567	627	645	680	700

Table 2
Thousands (except as indicated)
	Actual					Projected
Academic Year	1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85
Wales
Total School population (including special schools)	564·0	561·0	554·4	545·0	532·0	520·9	509·3	499·9	492·1
Pupil numbers:
Under fives	45·8	45·6	45·6	44·6	43·6	44·1	46·5	48·4	49·4
All other primary	273·3	269·0	262·3	254·9	243·9	234·2	222·4	214·4	211·3
Secondary
Under school leaving age	220·1	222·2	224·5	220·4	218·0	215·4	213·6	210·6	205·2
Over school leaving age	19·9	19·5	17·2	20·4	21·6	22·5	22·1	21·8	21·5
Total (excluding special schools)	559·2	556·3	549·7	540·3	527·3	516·2	504·6	495·2	487·4
School participation rates (per cent.)
Under fives	61	63	65	67	68	68	68	68	68
Over school leaving age	24	22	19	23	23	24	24	24	24
Teachers: numbers employed (full-time equivalents)	28·9	29·2	29·8	29·5	28·9	28·1	27·5	26·9	26·5
Pupil, teacher ratios overall	19·1	18·8	18·2	18·1	18·0	18·1	18·1	18·1	18·1
Special schools
Pupils	4·8	4·8	4·7	4·7	4·7	4·7	4·7	4·7	4·7
Teachers	0·7	0·7	0·7	0·7	0·7	0·7	0·7	0·7	0·7

Notes:

(a) The table relates to all maintained schools and includes pupils under five supported through the Urban Programme.

(b) Pupil and teacher numbers are as at January in the relevant academic year.

(c) The under fives and special school pupils are numbers participating, not full-time equivalents.

(d) Participation rates for under fives express the number of children under five in nursery and primary schools, part-time or full-time, as a percentage of three and four year olds in the population.

(e) The secondary over school leaving age participation rate expresses the number over school leaving age as a percentage of the comparable 16 and 17 year old population.

(f) Teacher numbers cover all teaching staff being paid, whether in school or not (e.g. released for in-service training) at the relevant date. It will be for local authorities to decide how best to deploy their teachers between age groups and for this reason no distribution is shown within schools.

(g) Pupil:teacher ratios are derived arithmetically from actual and projected populations shown in the table and principally for the reasons in note (f) above, are not a measure of pupil:teacher ratios within schools. Number of pupils under five years of age include part-time pupils who are each counted as 0·5 when deriving pupil:teacher ratios.

Table 3
Wales
Thousands
	Actual	Projection
	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85
Advanced further education: Numbers of home students (full-time and Sandwich)
Students on advanced courses in polytechnics and colleges of higher and further education (excluding postgraduates)	6·5	6·4	7·0	6·7	6·7
1st year enrolments	3·2	3·2	3·5	3·3	3·3
Postgraduates	0·2	0·2	0·1	0·1	0·1
Non-advanced further education: Home students (full-time equivalent)
Cmnd. 8175 plans	25·3	25·7	25·9	26·0	—
of which, 16–18 year olds on full-time and Sandwich courses	12·7	12·8	12·8	12·8	—
	Actual
Cmnd. 8494 plans	25·2	26·2	27·7	27·2	26·9
of which, 16–18 years olds on full-time and Sandwich course	12·8	14·0	15·7	15·4	15·2

Note:

NAFE figures exclude students participating as part of the MSC new training intitiative referred to in Chapter 2.4.

Volume 24: debated on Monday 17 May 1982