Staffordshire Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what was the pupil-teacher ratio in Staffordshire (a) in all schools and (b) in secondary schools in each year since 1979;(2) what was the pupil-teacher ratio in each shire county in England in the most recent year for which figures are available

(a) in primary schools and (b) in secondary schools.

The pupil-teacher ratios for the categories requested are shown in the following tables.

Pupil-teacher ratios in Staffordshire local education authority 1979 to 1991¹
	Maintained secondary schools¹	All maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools¹
1991	15·8	17·7
1990	15·7	18·0
1989	15·9	18·0
1988	16·3	18·0
1987	16·4	18·0
1986	16·5	18·3
1985	16·1	17·9
1984	16·3	17·8
1983	16·4	18·0
1982	16·5	18·7
1981	16·4	17·7
1980	16·5	18·5
1979	16·7	19·2

Pupil-teacher ratios in non-metropolitan counties, in England, as at January 1991
	Maintained primary schools¹	Maintained secondary schools¹
Isles of Scilly	15·1	8·0
Avon	22·4	16·0
Bedfordshire	21·6	16·8
Berkshire	23·4	15·6
Buckinghamshire	22·9	16·0
Cambridgeshire	23·0	16·1
Cheshire	24·2	16·4
Cleveland	23·4	14·9
Cornwall	23·3	16·3
Cumbria	22·2	15·0
Derbyshire	21·7	14·1
Devon	22·7	16·1
Dorset	22·9	16·4
Durham	22·3	16·1
East Sussex	22·2	15·8
Essex	23·1	16·6
Gloucestershire	21·3	15·7
Hampshire	22·8	15·8
Hereford and Worcester	22·4	16·5
Hertfordshire	22·0	15·4
Humberside	22·6	15·7

	Maintained primary schools ¹	Maintained secondary schools ¹
Isle of Wight	22·8	16·9
Kent	24·3	16·6
Lancashire	23·1	15·7
Leicestershire	22·9	15·0
Lincolnshire	23·5	16·2
Norfolk	22·1	15·3
North Yorkshire	22·4	15·3
Northamptonshire	22·6	16·3
Northumberland	23·5	16·7
Nottinghamshire	22·0	14·9
Oxfordshire	22·6	16·6
Shropshire	21·4	15·0
Somerset	22·1	15·7
Staffordshire	23·1	15·8
Suffolk	21·6	16·4
Surrey	21·3	15·1
Warwickshire	21·7	15·5
West Sussex	22·1	16·2
Wiltshire	21·9	15·5
¹ The pupil-teacher ratios presented for individual types of school take account only of qualified teachers within schools, whereas the calculation of the overall PTRs take account of all teachers employed by LEAs and grant-maintained schools.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much was spent per pupil in Staffordshire in each year since 1979 (a) in primary schools and (b) in secondary schools at 1992 prices.

Spending per pupil in primary schools and in secondary schools in Staffordshire is shown in the table. The table shows actual spending from 1979–80 to 1989––90, the latest year for which the information is available, at 1991–92 prices.

Net institutional expenditure¹per pupil at 1991–92 prices²
Year	Primary (£)	Secondary (£)
1979–80	1,000	1,400
1980–81	1,085	1,470
1981–82	1,145	1,510
1982–83	1,170	1,505
1983–84	1,215	1,565
1984–85	1,175	1,555
1985–86	1,175	1,625
1986–87	1,230	1,755
1987–88	³1,310	1,895
1988–89	³1,300	1,990
⁴1989–90	³1,340	2,080
¹ Net institutional expenditure covers the direct costs in schools of salaries and wages, premises and certain supplies and services. It does not include the costs of school meals, home to school transport, LEA central administration, and financing costs of capital expenditure.
²Figures for earlier years have been repriced to 1991–92 prices using the GDP (market prices) deflator index.
^3/ Spending on nursery and primary schools was not collected separately for years after 1986–87, so per pupil figures for these years cover both nursery and primary schools.
⁴ The figures in the tables are derived from local education authorities' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment and of their pupil numbers to the Department of Education and Science.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many pupils attended schools in Staffordshire in each year since 1979; and how many of these attended secondary schools and how many attended primary schools.

Information on the number of full-time equivalent pupils, who attended maintained schools in Staffordshire local education authority, for each year since 1979 is given, by type of school, in the following table.

Full-time equivalent of pupils in maintained schools in Staffordshire local education authority 1979 to 1991
	Nursery	Primary	Secondary	Special	Total
1991	1,500	88,400	67,200	2,100	159,200
1990	1,400	87,000	67,400	2,000	157,800
1989	1,500	84,300	69,400	2,000	157,200
1988	1,400	80,800	75,000	2,100	159,300
1987	1,400	79,200	79,800	2,200	162,600
1986	1,400	79,100	83,800	2,200	166,500
1985	1,400	78,200	88,600	2,300	170,500
1984	1,400	80,300	91,600	2,400	175,700
1983	1,400	84,600	89,900	2,400	178,300
1982	1,400	89,300	90,500	2,400	183,600
1981	1,400	94,700	90,800	2,500	189,400
1980	1,400	100,100	88,600	2,500	192,600
1979	1,400	104,800	86,700	2,500	195,400

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much was spent on school education in Staffordshire in each year since 1979 at constant prices.

Net recurrent spending on nursery, primary and secondary school education in Staffordshire is shown in the table. The figures are shown at 1989–90 prices, the latest year for which actual spending information is available.

Year	Net recurrent expenditure (£ million)
1979–80	201·3
1980–81	211·1
1981–82	216·8
1982–83	212·8
1983–84	215·5
1984–85	209·5
1985–86	206·6
1986–87	214·0
1987–88	221·3
1988–89	221·2
1989–90	229·6

Notes:

1. Net recurrent expenditure on education includes total expenditure other than costs of financing capital expenditure, less income other than from specific grants.

2. Figures for earlier years have been repriced to 1989–90 prices using the GDP (market prices) deflator index.

3. The figures in the tables are derived from local education authorities' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment.

Volume 203: debated on Friday 7 February 1992