Teachers' Salaries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of the total schools' budget was spent on teachers' salaries in each of the local education authorities in England in the most recent year for which figures are available. [37668]

The table sets out for each LEA in England the expenditure on teaching staff in LEA maintained pre-primary/primary schools and secondary schools as a percentage of the net institutional expenditure in those schools for 1993–94, the latest year for which figures are available.

Teaching staff cost as a percentage of net institutional expenditure 1993–94
	A	B	C
LEA	Teaching staff £000	Net institutional expenditure £000	A as a percentage of B Percentage
Corporation of London	378	733	52
Camden	35,194	46,302	76
Greenwich	50,130	77,061	65
Hackney	38,459	51,207	75
Hammersmith and Fulham	22,873	39,040	59
Islington	33,662	63,274	53
Kensington and Chelsea	15,156	23,362	65
Lambeth	34,363	59,898	57
Lewisham	41,099	68,108	60
Southwark	35,338	54,945	64
Tower Hamlets	54,948	91,306	60
Wandsworth	26,905	43,474	62
City of Westminster	29,294	43,757	67
Barking	33,546	49,756	67
Barnet	53,545	79,721	67
Bexley	39,690	57,976	68
Brent	35,940	46,275	78
Bromley	32,864	45,870	72
Croydon	48,644	73,977	66
Ealing	43,194	64,023	67
Enfield	49,634	75,390	66
Haringey	45,935	69,825	66
Harrow	37,489	55,040	68
Havering	40,556	59,589	68
Hillingdon	24,566	38,121	64
Hounslow	44,736	66,548	67
Kingston upon Thames	20,811	29,733	70
Merton	31,906	43,984	73
Newham	50,705	75,469	67
Redbridge	46,535	67,518	69
Richmond upon Thames	24,903	35,540	70
Sutton	21,402	30,401	70
Waltham Forest	40,535	58,999	69
Birmingham	196,471	289,888	68
Coventry	64,075	95,385	67
Dudley	53,025	71,564	74
Sandwell	62,564	92,154	68
Solihull	40,771	58,845	69
Walsall	52,830	78,333	67
Wolverhampton	51,527	64,736	80
Knowsley	31,389	45,255	69
Liverpool	96,545	151,860	64
St. Helens	37,063	54,132	68
Sefton	55,666	79,781	70
Wirral	66,090	92,781	71
Bolton	52,422	72,778	72
Bury	31,913	43,809	73
Manchester	82,441	121,410	68
Oldham	53,602	76,242	70
Rochdale	37,191	51,176	73
Salford	43,307	60,293	72
Stockport	51,810	73,397	71
Tameside	37,618	55,878	67
Trafford	34,606	48,526	71
Wigan	62,581	83,150	75
Barnsley	40,554	57,556	70
Doncaster	60,089	83,367	72
Rotherham	55,960	81,735	68
Sheffield	87,358	120,122	73
Bradford	104,376	146,676	71
Calderdale	36,813	51,534	71
Kirklees	78,290	108,218	72
Leeds	141,119	198,082	71
Wakefield	60,282	88,219	68
Gateshead	38,847	55,499	70
Newcastle upon Tyne	49,545	74,609	66
North Tyneside	38,582	51,418	75
South Tyneside	30,202	40,908	74
Sunderland	62,686	85,118	74
Isles of Scilly	582	915	64
Avon	167,577	245,926	68
Bedfordshire	100,576	146,717	69

Teaching staff cost as a percentage of net institutional expenditure 1993–94
	A	B	C
LEA	Teaching staff £000	Net institutional expenditure £000	A as a percentage of B Percentage
Berkshire	128,112	181,262	71
Buckinghamshire	105,449	168,270	63
Cambridgeshire	98,564	143,360	69
Cheshire	178,169	258,947	69
Cleveland	116,869	165,533	71
Cornwall	85,273	122,213	70
Cumbria	87,360	121,321	72
Derbyshire	161,265	229,278	70
Devon	169,425	238,869	72
Dorset	93,728	131,513	71
Durham	116,556	171,186	68
East Sussex	109,940	158,657	69
Essex	199,831	297,785	67
Gloucestershire	68,882	95,940	72
Hampshire	243,811	350,002	70
Hereford and Worcester	123,108	169,327	73
Hertfordshire	176,401	254,881	69
Humberside	165,106	258,537	64
Isle of Wight	23,356	32,533	72
Kent	216,360	299,603	72
Lancashire	277,811	398,358	70
Leicestershire	178,468	256,746	70
Lincolnshire	83,627	118,238	71
Norfolk	121,095	170,158	71
North Yorkshire	133,453	184,672	72
Northamptonshire	104,657	148,318	71
Northumberland	60,487	94,228	64

Full-time equivalent teachers employed by local education authorities and grant-maintained schools in the nursery, primary and secondary sector 1991–95
Position in January each year
	1991		1992		1993		1994		1995
Local education authority area	All schools	GM only	All schools	GM only	All schools	GM only	All schools	GM only	All schools	GM only
Corporation of London	14	—	11	—	15	—	14	—	16	—
Camden	1,196	—	1,299	—	1,273	—	1,321	160	1,346	165
Greenwich	2,196	—	2,234	—	2,033	—	1,984	—	1,939	11
Hackney	1,715	—	1,604	—	1,550	—	1,459	—	1,429	7
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,045	79	1,033	83	1,024	88	977	86	941	82
Islington	1,310	—	1,338	—	1,533	—	1,627	—	1,360	—
Kensington and Chelsea	689	41	795	42	696	45	670	65	674	78
Lambeth	1,453	—	1,541	39	1,549	55	1,575	303	1,680	390
Lewisham	1,818	—	1,411	—	1,777	19	1,809	23	1,863	21
Southwark	1,714	31	1,695	34	1,705	33	1,739	236	1,687	237
Tower Hamlets	2,115	—	2,118	56	2,232	59	2,309	57	2,250	59
Wandsworth	1,725	—	1,730	186	1,754	314	1,625	478	1,561	485
Westminster	1,154	—	1,147	—	1,188	—	1,160	—	1,121	—
Barking and Dagenham	1,267	—	1,322	—	1,353	—	1,375	—	1,446	—
Barnet	2,415	131	2,595	139	2,597	224	2,596	649	2,638	720
Bexley	1,745	—	1,711	—	1,753	20	1,781	202	1,836	261
Brent	2,023	63	2,032	64	2,030	147	1,962	595	1,971	803
Bromley	1,958	58	1,938	383	2,080	720	2,179	745	2,181	871
Croydon	2,548	—	2,486	50	2,397	57	2,326	266	2,409	544
Ealing	2,202	—	2,143	—	2,130	349	2,077	444	2,097	460
Enfield	2,264	—	2,292	—	2,324	—	2,273	362	2,358	371
Haringey	1,553	—	1,605	—	1,589	—	1,719	—	1,730	—
Harrow	1,450	—	1,570	—	1,581	—	1,566	33	1,576	37
Havering	2,011	—	2,049	—	2,009	—	1,907	236	1,891	249
Hillingdon	1,754	60	1,770	422	1,843	609	1,814	875	1,870	911
Hounslow	1,928	—	1,891	—	1,869	—	1,880	128	1,890	134
Kingston upon Thames	1,035	—	988	—	1,051	60	1,066	202	1,057	208
Merton	1,311	—	1,268	—	1,297	—	1,255	—	1,269	51
Newham	2,070	—	2,039	45	1,972	43	1,916	43	1,968	44
Redbridge	1,698	—	1,796	—	1,858	—	1,927	72	1,937	74
Richmond upon Thames	1,016	—	1,135	—	1,029	—	1,040	—	1,052	—
Sutton	1,345	50	1,299	152	1,266	254	1,292	443	1,354	452
Waltham Forest	1,917	—	1,976	67	1,903	71	1,718	127	1,706	140

Teaching staff cost as a percentage of net institutional expenditure 1993–94
	A	B	C
LEA	Teaching staff £000	Net institutional expenditure £000	A as a percentage of B Percentage
Nottinghamshire	194,118	290,292	67
Oxfordshire	100,658	147,651	68
Shropshire	75,902	107,487	71
Somerset	82,420	115,127	72
Staffordshire	185,020	279,249	66
Suffolk	126,513	175,794	72
Surrey	135,672	195,024	70
Warwickshire	85,464	121,532	70
West Sussex	122,783	181,070	68
Wiltshire	92,673	132,678	70
	8,462,266	12,243,402	69

Volume 264: debated on Tuesday 24 October 1995