To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the annual cost of administering each education authority in each of the last three years.
The information is given in the table. The table shows spending by each LEA on administration in cash for 1989–90, 1990–91 and 1991–92, the latest year for which information on actual spending is available. Figures may not always be strictly comparable between LEAs due to differing local accounting practices.
| LEA | Expenditure on administration | ||
| 1989–90 £000 | 1990–91 £000 | 1991–92 £000 | |
| ILEA | 108,067 | — | — |
| Corporation of London | — | 474 | 440 |
| Camden | — | 8,164 | 7,791 |
| Greenwich | — | 7,799 | 13,094 |
| Hackney | — | 15,331 | 9,213 |
| Hammersmith | — | 7,564 | 7,929 |
| Islington | — | 11,889 | 11,611 |
| Kensington | — | 4,668 | 4,922 |
| Lambeth | — | 11,152 | 10,500 |
| Lewisham | — | 12,391 | 10,168 |
| Southwark | — | 7,151 | 6,987 |
| Tower Hamlets | — | 7,746 | 8,138 |
| Wandsworth | — | 12,915 | 3,498 |
| Westminster | — | 7,876 | 8,094 |
| Barking | 3,625 | 4,334 | 4,439 |
| Barnet | 5,103 | 5,469 | 5,893 |
| Bexley | 4,662 | 5,281 | 4,814 |
| Brent | 6,594 | 6,446 | 6,492 |
| Bromley | 4,244 | 4,828 | 4,062 |
| Croydon | 5,926 | 7,396 | 5,811 |
| Ealing | 7,954 | 8,072 | 8,534 |
| Enfield | 5,862 | 6,895 | 8,894 |
| Haringey | 6,255 | 9,881 | 5,852 |
| Harrow | 4,566 | 3,228 | 4,160 |
| Havering | 4,502 | 5,308 | 5,413 |
| Hillingdon | 5,050 | 6,705 | 5,298 |
| Hounslow | 5,110 | 4,798 | 4,089 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | 3,438 | 3,298 | 3,349 |
| Merton | 3,839 | 4,605 | 4,902 |
| Newham | 6,285 | 7,287 | 7,215 |
| Redbridge | 4,536 | 4,400 | 4,860 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames | 3,449 | 4,420 | 3,855 |
| Sutton | 5,547 | 6,488 | 6,007 |
| Waltham Forest | 4,567 | 6,194 | 6,642 |
| Birmingham | 18,903 | 19,434 | 18,676 |
| Coventry | 8,332 | 9,429 | 12,965 |
| Dudley | 4,971 | 8,538 | 8,351 |
| Sandwell | 4,909 | 6,111 | 5,888 |
| Solihull | 2,558 | 3,086 | 3,200 |
| Walsall | 3,711 | 4,855 | 4,310 |
| Wolverhampton | 5,325 | 6,207 | 6,174 |
| Knowsley | 3,328 | 3,050 | 3,264 |
| Liverpool | 7,226 | 7,678 | 7,724 |
| St. Helens | 1,863 | 4,383 | 4,671 |
| Sefton | 5,644 | 5,503 | 5,369 |
| Wirral | 6,277 | 4,880 | 5,350 |
| Bolton | 4,643 | 5,746 | 5,889 |
| Bury | 2,954 | 3,110 | 3,277 |
| Manchester | 8,102 | 9,230 | 9,704 |
| Oldham | 4,371 | 9,156 | 2,501 |
| Rochdale | 3,529 | 2,810 | 2,194 |
| Salford | 6,105 | 9,131 | 9,357 |
| Stockport | 1,980 | 4,188 | 4,050 |
| Tameside | 2,777 | 3,279 | 3,092 |
| Trafford | 2,676 | 2,693 | 2,719 |
| Wigan | 4,323 | 4,023 | 4,051 |
| Barnsley | 2,961 | 3,396 | 3,524 |
| Doncaster | 3,797 | 3,805 | 4,079 |
| Rotherham | 3,384 | 2,950 | 4,060 |
| Sheffield | 9,727 | 8,020 | 8,199 |
| Bradford | 7,890 | 8,289 | 4,783 |
| Calderdale | 3,764 | 3,480 | 3,169 |
| Kirklees | 8,538 | 10,144 | 9,478 |
| Leeds | 10,068 | 12,150 | 11,433 |
| Wakefield | 5,423 | 4,303 | 4,417 |
| Gateshead | 3,800 | 4,422 | 3,982 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 5,996 | 7,192 | 5,859 |
| North Tyneside | 3,382 | 3,132 | 2,386 |
| LEA | Expenditure on administration | ||
| 1989–90 £000 | 1990–91 £000 | 1991–92 £000 | |
| South Tyneside | 3,422 | 3,059 | 2,830 |
| Sunderland | 3,542 | 3,450 | 3,290 |
| Avon | 14,993 | 17,957 | 15,561 |
| Bedfordshire | 7,845 | 9,259 | 10,286 |
| Berkshire | 12,716 | 11,757 | 11,377 |
| Buckinghamshire | 11,429 | 14,682 | 16,315 |
| Cambridgeshire | 11,919 | 14,653 | 11,153 |
| Cheshire | 14,488 | 17,167 | 14,022 |
| Cleveland | 10,206 | 11,844 | 12,201 |
| Cornwall | 7,215 | 9,158 | 10,019 |
| Cumbria | 10,551 | 11,186 | 8,656 |
| Derbyshire | 13,858 | 14,461 | 15,355 |
| Devon | 10,815 | 9,068 | 13,140 |
| Dorset | 7,927 | 9,157 | 8,754 |
| Durham | 5,961 | 6,283 | 6,599 |
| East Sussex | 6,931 | 7,908 | 10,149 |
| Essex | 25,756 | 26,782 | 26,253 |
| Gloucestershire | 8,023 | 8,900 | 8,906 |
| Hampshire | 16,545 | 19,133 | 21,363 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 7,729 | 8,666 | 9,837 |
| Hertfordshire | 9,354 | 12,826 | 15,280 |
| Humberside | 12,311 | 13,077 | 14,185 |
| Isle of Wight | 2,465 | 3,207 | 3,688 |
| Kent | 18,742 | 26,195 | 13,889 |
| Lancashire | 21,051 | 17,783 | 19,373 |
| Leicestershire | 10,845 | 12,708 | 12,902 |
| Lincolnshire | 8,178 | 9,549 | 10,421 |
| Norfolk | 8,275 | 10,255 | 14,922 |
| North Yorkshire | 8,901 | 8,937 | 9,266 |
| Northamptonshire | 8,868 | 9,212 | 7,903 |
| Northumberland | 4,250 | 3,897 | 4,636 |
| Nottinghamshire | 15,909 | 16,873 | 21,294 |
| Oxfordshire | 7,451 | 12,428 | 9,245 |
| Shropshire | 4,607 | 4,808 | 5,429 |
| Somerset | 8,062 | 7,537 | 9,178 |
| Staffordshire | 12,252 | 14,476 | 13,846 |
| Suffolk | 9,981 | 9,501 | 11,252 |
| Surrey | 18,626 | 20,663 | 16,990 |
| Warwickshire | 7,796 | 8,666 | 9,396 |
| West Sussex | 11,449 | 8,624 | 9,750 |
| Wiltshire | 8,039 | 7,753 | 8,914 |
Notes:
1. The figures for all years consist of net recurrent expenditure on LEA administration including central local authority administration expenditure recharged to education.
2. For 1989–90, the figures for Haringey, Hounslow, Manchester, North Tyneside and Wakefield LEAs are estimates; for 1990–91, the figure for Greenwich LEA is an estimate; and for 1991–92, the figures for Hackney, Haringey, Islington, North Tyneside and Walsall are subject to final checking by the Department of the Environment and the Department for Education.