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Mr. Raffan
asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will provide a table showing (a) the current educational expenditure excluding meals and milk in constant 1983–84 cost terms, (b) the pupil numbers in full-time equivalents, (c) the teacher numbers in service in full-time equivalents (d) the pupil-teacher ratio overall, for each year in Clwyd from 1979–80 to the latest available year.
Mr. Nicholas Edwards
The information is as follows:
| Clwyd County Council (a) Education Current Expenditure excluding Meals and Milk (1983–84 real terms)* | |
| £ million | |
| 1979–80 | 75·9 |
| 1980–81 | 80·0 |
| 1981–82 | 82·4 |
| 1982–83 | 84·1 |
| 1983–84 | 86·4 |
| Cash deflated to 1983–84 prices using the GDP deflator which measures changes in prices in the economy as a whole. | |
| (b) Pupil and Teacher Numbers (full-time equivalents) and overall Pupil Teacher Ratios (Nursery, Primary and Secondary Schools) | |||
| Pupils (fte) | Teachers in service (fte) | PTR overall | |
| 1979–80 | 74,765 | 3,914 | 19·1 |
| 1980–81 | 73,474 | 3,882 | 18·9 |
| 1981–82 | 71,439 | 3,787 | 18·9 |
| 1982–83 | 69,983 | 3,799 | 18·4 |
| 1983–84 | 68,881 | 3,869 | 17·8 |