(2) what the most recent average cost per annum was of educating a child at primary school in each local education authority area in England;
(3) what the most recent figures are for the average cost per annum of educating a child at primary school in (a) rural and village areas and (b) town and city areas in England.
The available information is given in the following table.
£ In England during the 2004-05 financial year £ per pupil3 2,910 In 2004-05 financial year Barking and Dagenham 3,150 Barnet 3,280 Barnsley 2,910 Bath and North East Somerset 2,850 Bedfordshire 2,830 Bexley 2,810 Birmingham 3,200 Blackburn and Darwen 2,910 Blackpool 2,880 Bolton 2,760 Bournemouth 2,670 Bracknell Forest 2,730 Bradford 3,070 Brent 3,230 Brighton and Hove 2,820 Bromley 2,690 Buckinghamshire 2,740 Bury 2,660 Calderdale 2,940 Cambridgeshire 2,720 Camden 4,120 Cheshire 2,640 City of Bristol 2,860 City of Kingston-Upon-Hull 2,990 City of London 4,990 Cornwall 2,810 Coventry 3,010 Croydon 3,060 Cumbria 2,870 Darlington 2,710 Derby 2,940 Derbyshire 2,630 Devon 2,790 Doncaster 2,860 Dorset 2,790 Dudley 2,760 Durham 3,000 Ealing 3,330 East Riding of Yorkshire 2,760 East Sussex 2,830 Enfield 3,270 Essex 2,900 Gateshead 2,850 Gloucestershire 2,720 Greenwich 3,530 Hackney 4,010 Halton 2,910 Hammersmith and Fulham 3,800 Hampshire 2,850 Haringey 3,590 Harrow 3,100 Hartlepool 2,840 Havering 2,920 Herefordshire 2,780 Hertfordshire 2,780 Hillingdon 2,920 Hounslow 3,160 Isle of Wight 3,000 Isles of Scilly 7,280 Islington 3,760 Kensington and Chelsea 4,160 Kent 2,770 Kingston upon Thames 3,110 Kirklees 3,060 Knowsley 3,010 Lambeth 4,110 Lancashire 2,900 Leeds 3,010 Leicester 2,990 Leicestershire 2,580 Lewisham 3,800 Lincolnshire 2,600 Liverpool 3,100 Luton 3,100 Manchester 3,030 Medway 3,050 Merton 3,200 Middlesbrough 2,980 Milton Keynes 2,760 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,840 Newham 3,630 Norfolk 2,770 North East Lincolnshire 2,920 North Lincolnshire 2,840 North Somerset 2,650 North Tyneside 2,760 North Yorkshire 2,890 Northamptonshire 2,720 Northumberland 2,940 Nottingham City 3,410 Nottinghamshire 2,900 Oldham 2,740 Oxfordshire 2,790 Peterborough 2,890 Plymouth 2,800 Poole 2,620 Portsmouth 3,070 Reading 2,720 Redbridge 2,830 Redcar and Cleveland 2.940 Richmond upon Thames 3,030 Rochdale 2,910 Rotherham 2,820 Rutland 2,950 Salford 2,920 Sandwell 3,010 Sefton 2,980 Sheffield 2,780 Shropshire 2,600 Slough 2,990 Solihull 2,580 Somerset 2,810 South Gloucestershire 2,610 South Tyneside 2,970 Southampton 3,170 Southend 2,860 Southwark 3,970 St. Helens 2,790 Staffordshire 2,620 Stockport 2,720 Stockton-on-Tees 2,810 Stoke on Trent 2,730 Suffolk 2,920 Sunderland 2,840 Surrey 2,790 Sutton 2,870 Swindon 2,630 Tameside 2,750 Telford and Wrekin 2.660 Thurrock 2,940 Torbay 2,730 Tower Hamlets 4,300 Trafford 2,500 Wakefield 2,810 Walsall 2,770 Waltham Forest 3,390 Wandsworth 3,630 Warrington 2,630 Warwickshire 2,670 West Berkshire 2,840 West Sussex 2,780 Westminster 3,800 Wigan 2,780 Wiltshire 2,670 Windsor and Maidenhead 2,870 Wirral 2,730 Wokingham 2,650 Wolverhampton 2,810 Worcestershire 2,740 York 2,680 In urban and rural schools3 in England during the2004-05 financial year Urban primary schools4, 5 2,920 Rural primary schools4, 5 2,900 1 School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by local authority schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure. This is drawn from the 2004-05 Section 52 Outturn Statement (Table A line 50). 2 Pupil numbers include only those pupils attending local authority maintained primary schools and are drawn from the DfES Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis. 3 Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 30 June 2006. 4 The urban/rural classification is drawn from the Edubase (the DfES database of educational establishments). As at 30th June 2006, the database did not hold an urban/rural classification for 32 of the 17,864 primary schools included on local authorities' 2004-05 Section 52 Outturn Statements. 5 Rural primary schools are on average much smaller than those in urban areas. Funding to offset diseconomies of scale therefore increases the amount spent in rural primary schools to a level very close to urban schools.