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Pupils: Per Capita Costs

Volume 461: debated on Wednesday 6 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the level of funding was per pupil in (a) Shrewsbury and Atcham, (b) Dagenham, (c) Leicester West and (d) Leeds Central constituency in (i) 2005 and (ii) 2006. (140218)

The education funding information requested is allocated to local authorities and not at constituency level. The 2005-06 dedicated schools grant (DSG) baseline plus revenue grants and final 2006-07 DSG allocations plus revenue grants are shown in the following table. These are the cash figures for all funded pupils aged three-15:

£

Local authority

2005-06 DSG baseline plus grants

2006-07 DSG plus grants

Barking and Dagenham

4,750

4,922

Leeds

4,127

4,354

Leicester

4,158

4,485

Shropshire

3,751

3,957