Education Spending

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a series going back to 1978–79 in (a) cash prices, (b) 1990–91 prices and (c) as a proportion of GDP, Government spending on education, sub-divided into primary, secondary and others both in total and divided into (i) capital spending, net and gross of receipts, and (ii) current.

The available information on actual expenditure by the Department of Education and Science is shown in the tables. The records do not show a breakdown of expenditure between the primary and secondary schools sector. The figures for receipts appropriated in aid are aggregated for schools and other education and do not distinguish between capital and recurrent receipts.

Department of Education and Science: Expenditure
£ million
	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91
Cash
Schools
capital	16	20	22	24	22	19	25	31	27	32	57	82	115
current	24	27	26	29	29	26	44	56	62	74	84	¹102	¹128
Other
capital	82	108	116	121	124	122	126	138	152	151	166	²254	²292
current	1,120	1,360	1,731	1,900	2,016	2,151	2,191	2,217	2,294	2,606	2,818	²4,074	²4,725
Total	1,242	1,515	1,895	2,074	2,191	2,318	2,386	2,442	2,535	2,863	3,125	4,512	5,260
Receipts appropriated in aid	9	14	2	4	4	8	9	8	10	11	12	¹12	¹15
1990–91 prices
Schools
capital	40	43	40	40	34	28	35	42	35	39	65	88	115
current	61	58	48	48	45	27	62	75	80	91	96	110	128
Other
capital	207	234	212	202	193	181	178	185	197	186	190	274	292
current	2,825	2,941	3,163	3,166	3,136	3,199	3,101	2,976	2,976	3,209	3,230	4,390	4,725
Total	3,133	3,277	3,462	3,456	3,409	3,447	3,376	3,278	3,288	3,526	3,582	4,862	5,260
Receipts	23	30	4	7	6	12	13	11	13	14	14	13	15
As a proportion of GDP
Schools
capital	0·009	0·010	0·009	0·009	0·008	0·006	0·008	0·009	0·007	0·008	0·012	0·016	0·021
current	0·014	0·013	0·011	0·011	0·010	0·009	0·014	0·016	0·016	0·017	0·018	0·020	0·023
Other
capital	0·048	0·053	0·050	0·047	0·044	0·040	0·039	0·039	0·040	0·036	0·035	0·050	0·053
current	0·656	0·664	0·741	0·741	0·719	0·707	0·672	0·622	0·598	0·614	0·597	0·799	0·864
Total	0·728	0·739	0·811	0·809	0·781	0·762	0·732	0·685	0·661	0·675	0·662	0·885	0·962
¹ Figures do not include annual maintenance grant to GM schools, recouped from LEAs. The cash figures for this were £15 million for 1989–90 and £59 million for 1990–91.
² Includes institutions transferred from LEA sector.

Volume 198: debated on Tuesday 5 November 1991