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Local Government Finance: Special Education Needs

Volume 457: debated on Monday 5 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much each local authority spent on out-of-authority placements for special educational needs in each of the last three years, broken down by (a) social services, (b) education and (c) other. (122355)

I have been asked to reply.

The Department does not collect local authority expenditure at the detail requested. However, the following table provides the available budget information on inter-authority recoupment by local authorities in England from 2004-05 to 2006-07:

Budgeted gross expenditure on inter-authority recoupment1

£

LEA name

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

England

153,026,734

162,555,495

179,209,612

Barking and Dagenham

1,158,667

1,700,000

1,860,000

Barnet

2,725,720

2,874,300

3,072,883

Barnsley

472,000

432,000

432,000

Bath and North East Somerset

344,648

363,223

300,038

Bedfordshire

978,040

1,098,722

1,161,544

Bexley

2,091,000

2,251,000

2,347,000

Birmingham

1,099,276

1,121,262

1,143,687

Blackburn with Darwen

772,000

822,001

710,000

Blackpool

498,699

396,747

424,216

Bolton

(110,275)

(93,920)

823,000

Bournemouth

707,700

737,000

829,851

Bracknell Forest

1,356,360

1,428,490

1,580,950

Bradford

1,079,480

1,450,721

1,843,522

Brent

1,387,000

1,441,000

1,605,000

Brighton and Hove

274,190

285,500

325,010

Bristol City of

1,954,105

1,893,264

1,964,901

Bromley

2,201,650

2,209,170

2,453,210

Buckinghamshire

1,565,000

1,729,284

2,013,547

Bury

694,435

632,124

595,724

Calderdale

197,850

210,775

491,840

Cambridgeshire

979,258

1,409,166

1,358,482

Camden

1,487,700

1,632,400

2,224,500

Cheshire

742,899

912,728

1,079,107

City of London

193,500

90,400

92,400

Cornwall

704,000

693,000

696,000

Coventry

598,985

610,600

622,710

Croydon

2,051,721

2,415,071

4,168,720

Cumbria

183,253

186,495

153,680

Darlington

299,460

282,152

290,421

Derby

770,086

793,188

816,587

Derbyshire

1,832,620

1,867,172

2,517,383

Devon

1,493,000

1,318,000

1,293,093

Doncaster

680

700

700

Dorset

2,697,200

3,038,300

1,748,400

Dudley

735,600

750,300

996,945

Durham

710,992

647,902

601,277

Ealing

1,617,800

1,534,700

1,583,000

East Riding of Yorkshire

2,189,380

2,508,700

3,008,880

East Sussex

947,857

1,135,277

1,717,408

Enfield

2,494,400

2,388,306

1,849,480

Essex

2,612,328

2,713,514

2,832,011

Gateshead

450,906

458,609

450,857

Gloucestershire

475,260

602,301

768,481

Greenwich

1,671,040

1,684,880

1,659,880

Hackney

3,148,228

3,388,165

3,843,962

Halton

926,392

950,990

891,270

Hammersmith and Fulham

1,845,661

2,278,260

2,636,700

Hampshire

3,204,000

3,275,000

3,382,900

Haringey

1,318,800

1,607,398

1,591,699

Harrow

1,317,760

1,289,668

1,160,731

Hartlepool

624,514

644,241

583,477

Havering

616,870

495,650

458,110

Herefordshire

98,000

5,044

(39,811)

Hertfordshire

1,045,720

1,060,883

1,083,692

Hillingdon

483,696

1,247,150

1,282,820

Hounslow

1,038,506

1,707,769

1,975,029

Isle of Wight

28,251

41,804

57,646

Isles of Scilly

0

0

0

Islington

2,324,681

2,518,405

2,952,396

Kensington and Chelsea

2,060,356

2,134,311

2,088,543

Kent

1,177,675

1,977,135

1,997,135

Kingston upon Hull City of

1,035,627

824,024

949,914

Kingston upon Thames

802,100

1,042,000

1,071,000

Kirklees

126,900

124,800

283,800

Knowsley

469,037

569,058

701,057

Lambeth

2,472,621

3,650,000

4,850,000

Lancashire

3,111,313

1,181,200

3,151,400

Leeds

731,050

745,310

773,800

Leicester

1,612,800

1,811,701

1,874,000

Leicestershire

2,432,523

2,592,201

2,416,614

Lewisham

3,821,564

3,213,834

3,264,406

Lincolnshire

50,084

492,066

1,117,290

Liverpool

350,720

357,704

816,000

Luton

1,614,904

1,334,736

1,160,570

Manchester

848,500

891,505

1,407,360

Medway

1,448,800

1,292,700

1,688,525

Merton

1,345,330

1,582,999

2,428,020

Middlesbrough

612,732

523,910

319,499

Milton Keynes

750,649

789,268

816,366

Newcastle upon Tyne

454,270

556,980

628,520

Newham

2,021,442

2,239,180

2,000,728

Norfolk

478,879

506,350

516,480

North East Lincolnshire

356,289

529,610

660,000

North Lincolnshire

727,239

849,718

838,990

North Somerset

221,350

226,500

319,770

North Tyneside

294,442

187,828

189,129

North Yorkshire

1,602,296

1,621,493

1,440,585

Northamptonshire

2,168,530

2,331,150

2,427,100

Northumberland

499,160

577,840

674,620

Nottingham

1,060,000

1,081,200

1,092,010

Nottinghamshire

2,794,242

2,851,658

2,918,410

Oldham

439,000

322,070

291,150

Oxfordshire

31,609

214,859

(442,052)

Peterborough

137,309

(143,718)

120,398

Plymouth

287,408

287,408

306,764

Poole

469,040

549,836

759,096

Portsmouth

569,200

569,200

809,400

Reading

2,315,717

2,523,674

2,819,700

Redbridge

349,644

795,903

818,897

Redcar and Cleveland

806,800

817,072

880,044

Richmond upon Thames

715,800

735,600

854,600

Rochdale

646,236

569,941

672,345

Rotherham

374,268

120,545

344,246

Rutland

166,400

195,250

214,775

Salford

926,303

986,340

875,296

Sandwell

991,653

1,101,600

1,156,600

Sefton

224,507

227,750

474,922

Sheffield

686,361

602,313

773,239

Shropshire

1,576,191

1,730,102

1,954,041

Slough

822,760

1,122,850

1,024,921

Solihull

482,973

495,100

853,975

Somerset

264,170

420,000

420,000

South Gloucestershire

1,320,000

1,509,000

1,583,000

South Tyneside

184,252

189,763

195,411

Southampton

564,499

580,300

441,508

Southend-on-Sea

462,701

691,247

818,897

Southwark

2,210,034

2,435,000

956,958

St. Helens

301,635

301,876

350,126

Staffordshire

1,739,560

1,993,050

1,942,879

Stockport

473,222

484,106

494,756

Stockton-on-Tees

745,281

754,258

724,172

Stoke-on-Trent

1,944,948

1,138,680

1,684,840

Suffolk

100,000

103,000

108,000

Sunderland

248,422

300,985

335,191

Surrey

2,303,161

2,388,952

2,638,838

Sutton

1,139,500

1,097,100

1,057,526

Swindon

0

24,724

(41,037)

Tameside

606,350

833,770

995,030

Telford and Wrekin

241,712

251,380

451,000

Thurrock

902,209

875,500

709,402

Torbay

894,890

848,404

525,780

Tower Hamlets

1,519,554

1,587,489

1,610,640

Trafford

638,193

538,297

653,943

Wakefield

245,280

0

0

Walsall

228,860

368,670

473,835

Waltham Forest

450,857

644,479

1,507,822

Wandsworth

1,994,412

2,268,553

2,515,264

Warrington

677,557

594,432

615,470

Warwickshire

803,244

847,333

1,073,642

West Berkshire

810,022

942,990

993,991

West Sussex

635,300

900,400

983,561

Westminster

2,898,000

3,382,700

3,875,800

Wigan

208,696

310,199

414,034

Wiltshire

1,923,493

1,772,272

1,707,623

Windsor and Maidenhead

1,144,110

1,165,800

1,194,950

Wirral

191,900

246,700

403,700

Wokingham

652,984

668,486

687,550

Wolverhampton

625,000

623,700

482,000

Worcestershire

553,360

586,535

600,026

York

198,214

204,750

210,540

Notes:

1. Budgeted gross expenditure on inter-authority recoupment includes any estimated expenditure in relation to transactions between authorities in accordance with regulations made under sections 493 or 494 of the 1996 Act or section 207 of the 2002 Act (recoupment between authorities).

2. Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 20 February 2007.