Special Education

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list (a) for each local education authority and (b) for metropolitan counties, shire counties and outer London boroughs, the average percentage of expenditure allocated to children with special needs spent on (i) children educated within the local education authority, (ii) children educated outside the local education authority and (iii) the number and proportion of children with special needs represented by (a) and (b) in each case, at the latest date for which figures are available.

[pursuant to his reply, 21 June 1985, c. 241–42]: The information requested is given in the following table.

Local education authority	Proportion of total net expenditure on special education spent in 1983–84		Numbers of pupils
	on pupils educated within the authority	on pupils educated outside the authority	Educated within the authority		Educated outside the authority
	Per cent.	Per cent.	Numbers	Per cent.	Numbers	Per cent.
Croydon	59	41	836	74	300	26
Ealing	61	39	620	71	250	29
Enfield	60	40	538	70	230	30
Haringey	64	36	438	66	221	34
Harrow	50	50	401	64	224	36
Havering	63	37	463	74	160	26
Hillingdon	66	34	581	79	158	21
Hounslow	73	27	763	82	162	18
Kingston-upon-Thames	52	48	292	71	118	29
Merton	62	38	318	68	151	32
Newham	73	27	650	81	148	19
Redbridge	55	45	488	66	252	34
Richmond-upon-Thames	64	36	240	71	96	29
Sutton	44	56	438	65	232	35
Waltham Forest	85	15	886	93	68	7
Outer London Borough	61	39	10,374	73	3,819	27
ILEA	92	8	8,438	92	722	8
Birmingham	91	9	3,625	95	202	5
Coventry	88	12	1,229	93	93	7
Dudley	78	22	692	86	112	14
Sandwell	82	18	924	90	108	10
Solihull	75	25	456	83	94	17
Walsall	87	13	787	94	54	6
Wolverhampton	91	9	675	92	57	8
Knowsley	77	23	667	83	135	17
Liverpool	98	2	2,169	96	92	4
St. Helens	66	34	545	81	124	19
Sefton	59	41	717	82	159	18
Wirral	78	22	1,050	88	149	12
Bolton	66	34	634	75	217	25
Bury	60	40	342	68	163	32
Manchester	93	7	2,271	92	204	8
Oldham	95	5	735	96	31	4
Rochdale	73	27	622	83	128	17
Salford	81	19	1,148	94	75	6
Stockport	59	41	893	78	249	22
Tameside	62	38	421	69	188	31
Trafford	72	28	421	78	118	22
Wigan	78	22	805	84	150	16
Barnsley	75	25	432	85	74	15
Doncaster	87	13	957	94	59	6
Rotherham	78	22	627	88	83	12
Sheffield	96	4	1,661	98	31	2
Bradford	87	13	1,567	93	125	7
Calderdale	72	28	305	78	86	22
Kirklees	75	25	750	85	134	15
Leeds	97	3	2,340	92	203	8
Wakefield	72	28	953	85	173	15
Gateshead	76	24	563	86	88	14
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	82	18	1,128	90	131	10
North Tyneside	66	34	565	81	136	19
South Tyneside	68	32	332	76	105	24
Sunderland	80	20	846	89	108	11
Metropolitan districts	83	17	34,854	89	4,438	11
Avon	74	26	2,410	86	404	14
Bedfordshire	81	19	1,272	87	197	13
Berkshire	73	27	2,170	84	413	16
Buckinghamshire	79	21	2,052	85	358	15
Cambridgeshire	91	9	1,537	82	346	18
Cheshire	77	23	2,203	85	378	15
Cleveland	88	12	2,109	94	130	6
Cornwall	74	26	327	72	125	28
Cumbria	79	21	714	83	147	17
Derbyshire	85	15	2,297	89	293	11
Devon	68	32	2,460	83	520	17
Dorset	68	32	1,337	84	259	16
Durham	80	20	1,300	86	217	14
East Sussex	68	32	1,882	82	423	18
Essex	70	30	3,623	84	686	16

Local education authority	Proportion of total net expenditure on special education spent in 1983–84		Number of pupils
	on pupils educated within the authority	on pupils educated outside the authority	Educated within the authority		Educated outside the authority
	Per cent.	Per cent.	Numbers	Per cent.	Numbers	Per cent.
Gloucestershire	79	21	1,621	85	278	15
Hampshireshire	65	35	4,697	83	996	17
Hereford and Worcestershire	80	20	1,729	89	207	11
Hertfordshire	78	22	3,037	89	391	11
Humberside	86	14	1,942	93	151	7
Isle of Wight	70	30	330	87	48	13
Kent	70	30	4,210	84	797	16
Lancashire	76	24	4,164	84	788	16
Leicestershire	85	15	1,498	90	164	10
Lincolnshire	76	24	1,434	87	218	13
Norfolk	88	12	1,191	92	100	8
North Yorks	68	32	1,460	81	332	19
Northamptonshire	85	15	1,589	92	145	8
Northumberland	76	24	774	88	107	12
Nottinghamshire	97	3	2,741	88	368	12
Oxon	77	23	1,317	88	181	12
Salop	76	24	935	87	136	13
Somerset	69	31	1,034	84	203	16
Staffordshire	85	15	2,683	92	243	8
Suffolk	68	32	915	79	240	21
Surrey	68	32	3,249	85	594	15
Warwickshire	74	26	1,651	87	246	13
West Sussex	76	24	1,344	85	243	15
Wiltshire	57	43	939	72	369	28
Non-metropolitan counties	76	24	74,177	86	12,441	14

Volume 81: debated on Wednesday 26 June 1985