Maintenance Awards

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the total amounts paid out in each of the last five years for which figures are available on (a) mandatory maintenance awards and (b) discretionary' maintenance awards in real terms using 1979–80 as a base, by local education authorities.

A full reply could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The following table shows the amounts paid out in respect or full-value mandatory and discretionary awards by each local authority in England and Wales in 1979–80 and 1983£84, and the value in percentage terms of the 1983–84 payments deflated by increases in retail prices, using 1979–80 as the base.

	Expenditure on full-value Mandatory Awards £000		Percentage value in real terms	Expenditure on full-value Discretionary Awards £000		Percentage value in real terms
	1979–80	1983–84	(1979=100)	1979–80	1983–84	11979=100)
Sandwell	1,030	1,751	117	162	222	94
Solihull	1,828	2,376	89	81	95	81
Walsall	1,350	2,186	111	930	234	172
Wolverhampton	1,644	2,530	106	136	Nil	Nil
Knowsley	1,007	1,274	87	19	23	82
Liverpool	4,306	5,049	81	Nil	Nil	Nil
St. Helens	1,287	1,820	97	112	129	79
Sefton	3,217	4,695	100	181	203	77
Wirral	3,112	4,803	106	409	874	147
Bolton	1,728	2,973	118	204	199	67
Bury	1,395	2,140	105	223	177	55
Manchester	3,380	4,258	87	471	394	57
Oldham	1,190	1,843	106	76	100	90
Rochdale	1,230	1,875	105	134	193	98
Salford	1,175	1,639	96	219	209	66
Stockport	2,814	4,025	98	262	298	78
Tameside	1,101	1,604	100	84	150	122
Trafford	2,138	3,435	110	133	Nil	Nil
Wigan	1,615	2,724	116	119	259	149
Barnsley	947	1,398	101	207	202	67
Doncaster	1,585	2,508	109	166	273	113
Rotherham	1,140	2,022	122	81	159	134
Sheffield	3,032	4,863	110	537	757	97
Bradford	2,998	4,883	112	562	978	120
Calderdale	1,079	1,859	118	151	198	90
Kirklees	2,489	3,689	102	358	508	98
Leeds	4,764	7,117	103	490	272	38
Wakefield	1,526	1,967	89	223	316	97
Gateshead	1,031	1,454	97	208	151	50
Newcastle upon Tyne	2,152	2,773	89	308	347	77
North Tyneside	1,441	1,795	86	217	174	55
South Tyneside	960	1,400	100	83	8	6
Sunderland	1,533	2,323	104	375	571	104
Isles of Scilly	14	28	136	11	2	10
Avon	6,855	10,810	108	745	1466	135
Bedfordshire	2,929	4,983	117	358	511	98
Berkshire	4,951	8,983	125	434	884	140
Buckinghamshire	4,401	7,175	112	406	500	85
Cambridgeshire	3,577	5,868	113	542	616	78
Cheshire	7,060	11,437	111	977	1,684	118
Cleveland	3,514	5,585	109	563	763	93
Cornwall	2,366	3,909	113	292	362	85
Cumbria	2,949	4,165	97	548	893	112
Derbyshire	5,106	7,456	100	422	386	63
Devon	6,187	9,621	107	1,596	1,939	83
Dorset	4,271	6,230	100	856	1,070	86
Durham	3,284	4,786	100	519	712	94
East Sussex	4,315	7,023	112	923	531	39
Essex	8,045	11,765	100	1,492	1,261	58
Gloucestershire	3,813	6,079	109	732	1,048	98
Hampshire	9,474	14,277	104	2,132	2,667	86
Hereford and Worcester	4,225	6,928	113	469	669	98
Hertfordshire	8,256	10,680	89	921	162	12
Humberside	4,612	7,155	107	903	1,713	130
Isle of Wight	583	1,137	134	113	178	108
Kent	9,670	14,887	106	2,173	2,837	90
Lancashire	10,473	14,852	97	1,150	1,888	113
Leicestershire	5,868	9,181	107	486	1,472	208
Lincolnshire	3,304	5,096	106	439	966	151
Norfolk	3,565	5,586	108	753	499	45
North Yorkshire	4,974	7,484	103	835	1,739	143
Northamptonshire	2,830	4,770	116	344	599	120
Northumberland	1,899	2,932	106	230	248	74
Nottinghamshire	5,732	8,857	106	609	809	91
Oxfordshire	4,141	6,557	109	487	397	56
Salop	2,324	3,752	111	410	674	113
Somerset	2,680	4,354	112	346	292	58
Staffordshire	5,656	9,001	109	748	797	73

	Expenditure on full-value Mandatory Awards £000		Percentage value in real terms	Expenditure on full-value Discretionary Awards £000		Percentage value in real terms
	1979–80	1983–84	(1979=100)	1979–80	1983–84	(1979=100)
Suffolk	3,083	4,922	110	873	1,146	90
Surrey	9,003	13,025	99	912	791	60
Warwickshire	3,671	5,604	105	598	651	75
West Sussex	4,573	6,972	105	634	528	57
Wiltshire	3,379	5,189	105	613	576	65
Clwyd	2,698	4,213	107	265	526	136
Dyfed	2,719	4,392	111	15	5	24
Gwent	3,164	5,188	113	303	473	107
Gwynedd	1,623	2,802	119	41	34	57
Mid-Glamorgan	3,242	4,699	100	446	5	1
Powys	772	1,203	107	337	374	76
South Glamorgan	3,602	5,635	107	483	716	102
West Glamorgan	2,648	4,892	127	480	624	89
Total England and Wales	332,209	502,077	104	49,452	63,665	88

Volume 84: debated on Wednesday 30 October 1985