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Mr. Butler
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will provide a table showing for (a) primary school pupils and (b) secondary school pupils levels of expenditure per child in education in Cheshire for each year since 1978–79 in (i) cash terms and (ii) constant price terms.
Mr. Fallon
The available information is given in the table.
| Cheshire LEA—net institutional expenditure per pupil1 | ||||
| Year | Nursery and Primary2schools | Secondary schools | ||
| cash terms (£) | real terms3(£) | cash terms (£) | real terms3(£) | |
| 1978–79 | 340 | 745 | 495 | 1,090 |
| 1979–80 | 400 | 755 | 580 | 1,090 |
| 1980–81 | 510 | 810 | 735 | 1,170 |
| 1981–82 | 580 | 840 | 815 | 1,185 |
| 1982–83 | 660 | 895 | 890 | 1,205 |
| 1983–84 | 665 | 865 | 940 | 1,220 |
| 1984–85 | 715 | 880 | 1,010 | 1,245 |
| 1985–86 | 760 | 890 | 1,090 | 1,275 |
| 1986–87 | 825 | 935 | 1,235 | 1,395 |
| 1987–88 | 900 | 965 | 1,410 | 1,515 |
| 1988–89 | 960 | 960 | 1,545 | 1,545 |
1 The figures are based on LEA expenditure returns to DOE and pupil number returns to DES. | ||||
2 Figures for nursery and primary schools were not collected separately from 1987–88. Figures for all years include nursery and primary schools. | ||||
3 The cash figures for earlier years have been repriced to 1988–89 prices using the Gross Domestic Product (Market Prices) Deflator. |