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Mr. Chaytor
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the 10 local authorities with the (a) smallest and (b) largest increases in education SSA for 1998–99. [37137]
Mr. Byers
The following table sets out the information requested:
| percentage | |||
| LEA | Biggest increase | LEA | Smallest increase |
| Croydon | + 7.7 | City of London | -6.7 |
| Bexley | + 7.6 | Wandsworth | + 2.2 |
| Isle of Wight | + 7.5 | Hackney | + 2.9 |
| Southampton | + 7.4 | Camden | + 3.0 |
| Blackpool | + 7.4 | Rutland | + 3.0 |
| Tower Hamlets | + 7.4 | Bracknell | + 3.1 |
| Lewisham | + 7.0 | Plymouth | + 3.2 |
| North Yorkshire | + 7.0 | Westminster | + 3.2 |
| Bromley | + 6.9 | Hounslow | + 3.6 |
| Portsmouth | + 6.9 | Richmond | + 3.7 |