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Education Expenditure

Volume 131: debated on Tuesday 12 April 1988

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the per capita spending on primary and secondary education in each local education authority.

The latest information available on actual expenditure is for the financial year 1986–87. The net institutional expenditure per pupil in primary and secondary schools in each local education authority is set out in the table. The figures include the cost of salaries and wages, premises and certain supplies and services. They do not include the cost of school meals, central administration and inspection, debt charges and revenue contributions to capital outlay.

Expenditure per pupil 1986–87

LEA

Primary schools

Secondary schools

£

£

Barking1,0101,470
Barnet1,0601,510
Bexley9151,370
Brent1,1051,805
Bromley9251,420
Croydon9351,535
Ealing1,1351,650
Enfield8901,380
Haringey1n/an/a
Harrow1,0201,600
Havering9051,510
Hillingdon1,0001,520
Hounslow1n/an/a
Kingston-upon-Thames9151,530
Merton9501,325
Newham1n/an/a
Redbridge9351,465
Richmond-upon-Thames1,0001,330
Sutton8551,300
Waltham Forest1,0951,915
ILEA1,4652,350
Birmingham8351,345
Coventry9101,486
Dudley8301,350
Sand well9601,410
Solihull8451,280
Walsall9701,430
Wolverhampton9851,395
Knowsley9601,515
Liverpool9801,445
St. Helens8601,340
Sefton8001,275
Wirral8151,280
Bolton7801,230
Bury7951,340
Manchester1,0201,660
Oldham8701,255
Rochdale8501,460
Salford8401,385
Stockport8051,270
Tameside9101,325
Trafford8551,315
Wigan8601,460
Barnsley9251,325
Doncaster9801,325
Rotherham8901,230
Sheffield1,0601,490
Bradford9451,235
Calderdale8951,330
Kirklees8751,250
Leeds9051,230
Wakefield9551,290
Gateshead9801,360
Newcastle-upon-Tyne1,0201,530
North Tyneside9951,455
South Tyneside9651,430
Sunderland851,305
Avon8501,310
Bedfordshire8751,250
Berkshire8451,280
Buckinghamshire8451,320
Cambridgeshire8151,205
Cheshire8101,235
Cleveland8951,365
Cornwall7951,175
Cumbria9151,315
Derbyshire8751,305
Devon8001,225
Dorset8701,190
Durham9201,225
East Sussex8251,235
Essex8201,250
Gloucestershire8351,260
Hampshire8251,220

LEA

Primary schools

Secondary schools

£

£

Hereford and Worcester8151,180
Hertfordshire8701,350
Humberside9201,270
Isle of Wight7851,150
Kent7601,145
Lancashire7801,255
Leicestershire8851,390
Lincolnshire7951,185
Norfolk8501,230
North Yorkshire8501,240
Northamptonshire8151,250
Northumberland8401,230
Nottinghamshire9351,365
Oxfordshire9051,350
Shropshire8501,285
Somerset7801,195
Staffordshire8801,255
Suffolk8301,165
Surrey8201,260
Warwickshire8451,220
West Sussex7851,220
Wiltshire8501,230
England8951,340

1Expenditure returns have not been submitted by LEAs thus marked.