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Education: North-East Region

Volume 456: debated on Wednesday 7 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent on (a) primary and (b) secondary school education in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North-East and (iv) England in each year since 1997. (118221)

The Jarrow constituency comprises schools in both South Tyneside and Gateshead local authority, so the available information provided in the following table applies to the South Tyneside and Gateshead local authorities, the North-East Region and England:

School-based expenditure1 in local authority maintained primary and secondary schools2, 3 1997-98 to 2005-064, 5, 6, 7—cash terms figures8, 9, 10 as reported by local authorities as at 31 January 2007

South Tyneside10

Gateshead10

Primary2

Pre-primary and primary2, 3

Secondary

Primary2

Pre-primary and primary2, 3

Secondary

1997-984

23,933,000

20,902,000

29,995,000

27,070,000

1998-994

26,215,000

23,212,000

31,560,000

27,655,000

1999-20055

27,558,000

28,383,000

25,027,000

33,957,000

34,335,000

28,547,000

2000-01

30,420,000

31,761,000

28,370,000

38,122,000

38,891,000

33,960,000

2001-02

35,560,000

37,254,000

33,973,000

38,793,000

40,669,000

34,180,000

2002-036, 7

34,070,000

33,656,000

40,746,000

38,245,000

2003-04

36,784,000

36,935,000

43,292,000

43,304,000

2004-05

37,531,000

39,765,000

45,000,000

46,612,000

2005-068

39,051,000

42,712,000

48,803,000

49,459,000

North-EastEnglandPrimary2Pre-primary and primary2, 3SecondaryPrimary2Pre-primary and primary2, 3Secondary1997-984—387,380,000393,033,000—7,277,910,0005,775,271,0001998-994—412,727,000412,503,000—7,834,434,0006,049,029,0001999-20055444,482,000458,999,000447,885,0008,602,543,0008,842,996,0008,257,736,0002000-01483,885,000502,500,000496,833,0009,425,272,0009,761,443,0009,093,528,0002001-02544,838,000571,112,000557,576,00010,495,632,00010,918,773,00010,261,440,0002002-036, 7537,799,000—569,583,00010,584,953,000—10,621,927,0002003-04572,380,000—631,797,00011,379,539,000—11,768,559,0002004-05596,563,000—672,642,00011,900,153,000—12,603,303,0002005-068638,133,000—718,537,00012,721,978,000—13,480,547,000 1 School-based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by the 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 which cannot be attributed to a particular phase of education.2 Expenditure was not distinguished between the pre-primary and primary sectors until the inception of Section 52 for financial year 1999-2000.3 School-based expenditure in LA maintained nursery schools was not recorded in 2002-03 and comparable figures are not available for 2003-04 onwards.4 Spending in 1997-98 reflects the transfer of moneys from local government to central Government for the nursery vouchers scheme. These were returned to local government from 1998-99.5 The 1999-2000 figures reflect the return of grant maintained schools to local authority maintenance.6 1999-2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RO1 form collected by the ODPM to the Section 52 form from the DfES. 2002-03 saw a further break in the time series following the introduction of Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) to schools and the associated restructuring of the outturn tables. The change in sources is shown by the blank row.7 The calculation for 2002-03 onwards is broadly similar to the calculation in previous years. However, 2001-02 and earlier years includes all premature retirement compensation (PRC) and Crombie payments, mandatory PRC payments and other indirect employee expenses. Also, for some LAs, expenditure that had previously been attributed to the school sectors was reported within the LA part of the form from 2002-03 and would therefore be excluded, though this is not quantifiable from existing sources.8 2005-06 data is subject to change by the local authority.9 Figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000.10 Financial data is collected at a local authority level and not at constituency level and consequently figures for the constituency of Yarrow are not available. Yarrow has schools in both South Tyneside LA and Gateshead LA and consequently figures are provided for both.