The allocation formula for dedicated schools grant (DSG) does not separately allocate money to support small rural schools; it starts from local authorities’ spending on schools for 2005-06, which is closely related to the formula for schools formula spending shares in use that year. That formula took account of the needs of sparsely populated authorities to keep open small rural primary schools, using an indicator of sparsity. The following table sets out estimated amounts within 2007-08 allocations of DSG, derived from the amounts allocated through the schools FSS formula in 2005-06 on the basis of sparsity, updated appropriately.
Authority Estimated amount for sparsity (£ million) Barking and Dagenham — Barnet — Barnsley 0.30 Bath and North East Somerset 0.49 Bedfordshire 2.49 Bexley — Birmingham — Blackburn with Darwen 0.20 Blackpool — Bolton — Bournemouth — Bracknell Forest 0.08 Bradford 0.48 Brent — Brighton and Hove — Bristol, City of — Bromley 0.06 Buckinghamshire 2.79 Bury — Calderdale 0.55 Cambridgeshire 5.88 Camden — Cheshire 3.52 City of London 0.002 Cornwall 5.27 Coventry — Croydon — Cumbria 6.37 Darlington 0.34 Derby — Derbyshire 4.36 Devon 8.99 Doncaster 1.62 Dorset 3.90 Dudley — Durham 2.61 Ealing — East Riding of Yorkshire 3.75 East Sussex 2.74 Enfield — Essex 6.27 Gateshead 0.12 Gloucestershire 4.16 Greenwich — Hackney — Halton 0.06 Hammersmith and Fulham — Hampshire 5.86 Haringey — Harrow — Hartlepool 0.13 Havering — Herefordshire 2.87 Hertfordshire 2.68 Hillingdon — Hounslow — Isle of Wight 0.92 Islington — Kensington and Chelsea — Kent 5.92 Kingston upon Hull, City of — Kingston upon Thames — Kirklees 1.01 Knowsley 0.23 Lambeth — Lancashire 4.66 Leeds 0.69 Leicester — Leicestershire 3.49 Lewisham — Lincolnshire 9.35 Liverpool — Luton — Manchester — Medway 0.42 Merton — Middlesbrough — Milton Keynes 0.76 Newcastle upon Tyne — Newham — Norfolk 8.80 North East Lincolnshire 0.42 North Lincolnshire 1.40 North Somerset 0.77 North Tyneside — North Yorkshire 10.17 Northamptonshire 4.15 Northumberland 3.29 Nottingham — Nottinghamshire 3.27 Oldham 0.21 Oxfordshire 4.19 Peterborough 0.49 Plymouth — Poole — Portsmouth — Reading — Redbridge — Redcar and Cleveland 0.39 Richmond upon Thames — Rochdale — Rotherham 0.49 Rutland 0.57 Salford — Sandwell — Sefton — Sheffield 0.32 Shropshire 4.36 Slough — Solihull 0.39 Somerset 5.39 South Gloucestershire 1.14 South Tyneside — Southampton — Southend-on-Sea — Southwark — St. Helens 0.13 Staffordshire 4.10 Stockport — Stockton-on-Tees 0.29 Stoke-on-Trent — Suffolk 6.12 Sunderland — Surrey 2.14 Sutton — Swindon 0.43 Tameside — Telford and Wrekin 0.59 Thurrock 0.21 Torbay — Tower Hamlets — Trafford — Wakefield 0.24 Walsall — Waltham Forest — Wandsworth — Warrington 0.06 Warwickshire 3.38 West Berkshire 1.05 West Sussex 2.96 Westminster — Wigan — Wiltshire 5.87 Windsor and Maidenhead 0.38 Wirral — Wokingham 0.38 Wolverhampton — Worcestershire 2.34 York 0.32