To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the value for each local education authority, in 1990 prices, of discretionary awards for the years 1979–80, 1984–85 and the latest available year.
The data requested are shown in the table.
| £ thousands | |||
| Local education authority | 1979–80 | 1984–85 | 1988–89 |
| Barking | 310 | 520 | 546 |
| Barnet | 1,412 | 1,039 | 493 |
| Bexley | 656 | 758 | 363 |
| Brent | 2,268 | 3,752 | 2,819 |
| Bromley | 905 | 714 | 805 |
| Croydon | 810 | 771 | 948 |
| Ealing | 1,518 | 943 | 1,425 |
| Enfield | 572 | 458 | 556 |
| Haringey | 85 | 1,158 | 2— |
| Harrow | 742 | 537 | 518 |
| Havering | 806 | 537 | 514 |
| Hillingdon | 897 | 654 | 485 |
| Hounslow | 563 | 362 | 228 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 327 | 189 | 203 |
| Merton | 375 | 201 | 345 |
| Newham | 513 | 1,050 | 885 |
| Redbridge | 951 | 631 | 440 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 830 | 641 | 646 |
| Sutton | 663 | 386 | 307 |
| Waltham Forest | 760 | 593 | 753 |
| ILEA | 17,703 | 19,635 | 18,962 |
| Birmingham | 1,698 | 1,022 | 1,653 |
| Coventry | 972 | 1,077 | 650 |
Local education authority
| 1979–80
| 1984–85
| 1988–89
|
| Dudley | 509 | 551 | 1— |
| Sandwell | 658 | 849 | 1,010 |
| Solihull | 414 | 313 | 431 |
| Walsall | 585 | 366 | 1,202 |
| Wolverhampton | 377 | 479 | 384 |
| Knowsley | 959 | 1,528 | 1,111 |
| Liverpool | 2,213 | 2,914 | 2,689 |
| St. Helens | 295 | 312 | 744 |
| Sefton | 635 | 673 | 672 |
| Wirral | 1,035 | 1,643 | 1,445 |
| Bolton | 1,109 | 1,315 | 1,063 |
| Bury | 871 | 955 | 1,225 |
| Manchester | 2,764 | 2,026 | 2— |
| Oldham | 390 | 782 | 838 |
| Rochdale | 619 | 414 | 732 |
| Salford | 972 | 1,160 | 780 |
| Stockport | 1,271 | 618 | 1,085 |
| Tameside | 468 | 437 | 360 |
| Trafford | 600 | 576 | 884 |
| Wigan | 814 | 225 | 415 |
| Barnsley | 611 | 739 | 1,229 |
| Doncaster | 788 | 865 | 778 |
| Rotherham | 1— | 323 | 116 |
| Sheffield | 1,661 | 2,600 | 4,178 |
| Bradford | 2,207 | 2,306 | 2,702 |
| Calderdale | 487 | 490 | 555 |
| Kirklees | 1,403 | 2,438 | 2,738 |
| Leeds | 1,852 | 1,881 | 2,999 |
| Wakefield | 457 | 987 | 2— |
| Gateshead | 490 | 408 | 501 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 788 | 478 | 460 |
| North Tyneside | 905 | 1,158 | 1,049 |
| South Tyneside | 383 | 435 | 650 |
| Sunderland | 881 | 1,447 | 1,397 |
| Isles of Scilly | 50 | 1 | 1 |
| Avon | 2,479 | 3,732 | 5,228 |
| Bedfordshire | 1,245 | 1,021 | 1,380 |
| Berkshire | 1,451 | 2,060 | 2,748 |
| Buckinghamshire | 1,670 | 1,512 | 1,676 |
| Cambridgeshire | 1,514 | 1,576 | 1,560 |
| Cheshire | 2,967 | 4,196 | 4,600 |
| Cleveland | 1,321 | 2,577 | 3,397 |
| Cornwall | 1,765 | 508 | 2,316 |
| Cumbria | 1,479 | 2,197 | 3,013 |
| Derbyshire | 1,910 | 3,364 | 2,932 |
| Devon | 3,920 | 4,773 | 5,077 |
| Dorset | 2,278 | 3,222 | 4,014 |
| Durham | 728 | 1,487 | 1,693 |
| East Sussex | 3,387 | 1,094 | 1,265 |
| Essex | 12,925 | 4,519 | 4,190 |
| Gloucestershire | 2,569 | 2,999 | 2,857 |
| Hampshire | 6,662 | 4,836 | 6,172 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 1,559 | 1,554 | 1,310 |
| Hertfordshire | 3,589 | 3,212 | 3,694 |
| Humberside | 3,309 | 4,526 | 4,456 |
| Isle of Wight | 468 | 476 | 481 |
| Kent | 6,081 | 1— | 4,787 |
| Lancashire | 3,725 | 7,221 | 6,748 |
| Leicestershire | 2,276 | 4,696 | 5,691 |
| Lincolnshire | 1,254 | 2,401 | 2,340 |
| Norfolk | 3,433 | 2,754 | 2,693 |
| North Yorkshire | 3,924 | 6,747 | 4,572 |
| Northamptonshire | 1,720 | 1,352 | 1,085 |
| Northumberland | 1,185 | 1,473 | 591 |
| Nottinghamshire | 3,671 | 5,776 | 4,408 |
| Oxfordshire | 1,605 | 1,323 | 1,715 |
| Shropshire | 1,503 | 1,721 | 1,813 |
| Somerset | 1,133 | 961 | 1,460 |
| Staffordshire | 279 | 2,913 | 2,820 |
| Suffolk | 2,296 | 2,403 | 2,323 |
Local education authority
| 1979–80
| 1984–85
| 1988–89
|
| Surrey | 4,020 | 2,121 | 1,912 |
| Warwickshire | 1,795 | 1,661 | 1,487 |
| West Susses | 2,064 | 1,323 | 40 |
| Wiltshire | 1,962 | 2,397 | 1,919 |
Notes to table:
1. The data are based on ROI spending returns submitted by local authorities in England to the Department of the Environment.
2. 1 denotes cases in which authorities did not enter a sum on their spending returns. 2 denotes that data are not available because no spending return was received.
3. The data relate to spending on discretionary awards as currently categorised for the purpose of the spending returns, that is, spending on awards made under Section 1(6) or Section 2 of the Education Act 1962 (as amended) other than awards to 16–19 year olds.
4. The data have been repriced to 1990–91 prices using the current GDP deflators.