The following list details the 90 local authorities whose budget for central expenditure for 2006-07 was greater than the allowed limit. This is taken from the local authority benchmarking tables which can be found on TeacherNet at:
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/localauthorities/section52/subPage.cfm?action=section52.default&ID=73
The tables were published on 31 August 2006 and copies of the data have been placed in the House Library.
Two technical changes to the school funding system for 2006-07 contributed to the total of 90 authorities who breached the central expenditure limit: local authorities were allowed to retain centrally funding which had in 2005-06 been distributed through teachers’ pay grant; and school specific contingency within the individual schools budget (ISB) was abolished, leading to an increase in the amount of contingency held within the central budget for some local authorities. We thought it appropriate that local schools forums should approve these arrangements where they led to a breach of the central expenditure limit.
Barnsley
Bath and North East Somerset
Bedfordshire
Birmingham
Bolton
Bournemouth
Bracknell Forest
Bradford
Brent
Bromley
Calderdale
City of Bristol
City of Kingston Upon Hull
Coventry
Croydon
Cumbria
Darlington
Derby
Derbyshire
Doncaster
Dorset
East Riding of Yorkshire
East Sussex
Enfield
Essex
Gloucestershire
Greenwich
Hackney
Halton
Hampshire
Haringey
Hartlepool
Havering
Hertfordshire
Hounslow
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kent
Kirklees
Knowsley
Lancashire
Leeds
Leicester
Leicestershire
Lewisham
Liverpool
Luton
Manchester
Medway
Merton
Middlesbrough
Newcastle upon Tyne
Norfolk
North Lincolnshire
North Yorkshire
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottingham
Peterborough
Portsmouth
Reading
Richmond upon Thames
Rochdale
Rotherham
Rutland
Salford
Sandwell
Sheffield
Slough
Somerset
South Tyneside
Southwark
St. Helens
Staffordshire
Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk
Sunderland
Surrey
Telford and Wrekin
Tower Hamlets
Trafford
Warrington
West Berkshire
West Sussex
Westminster
Wigan
Windsor and Maidenhead
Wirral
Wolverhampton
York