The Department is unable to answer the question in the way it has been asked. However, the following table shows the budgeted expenditure of transport for pupils with special educational needs:
£ Local authority name Budgeted SEN transport expenditure1, 3 Budgeted SEN transport expenditure1, 3 Budgeted SEN transport expenditure1,3 England 499,592,723 528,476,833 554,914,361 Barking and Dagenham 2,242,012 1,926,000 2,176,649 Barnet 4,793,528 5,211,047 5,770,867 Barnsley 1,314,910 1,277,692 1,363,650 Bath and North East Somerset 2,035,212 2,280,577 2,494,785 Bedfordshire 4,278,447 4,984,020 5,400,646 Bexley 3,211,000 2,534,000 2,625,000 Birmingham 13,410,558 13,188,243 12,375,713 Blackburn with Darwen 2,025,783 1,502,446 1,477,805 Blackpool 980,188 1,335,606 1,301,683 Bolton 2,546,218 2,455,433 2,542,690 Bournemouth 1,024,622 951,260 952,774 Bracknell Forest 1,413,602 1,370,106 1,379,509 Bradford 4,835,652 7,619,716 7,963,958 Brent 228,000 3,435,000 3,764,000 Brighton and Hove 2,604,995 2,745,599 3,140,800 Bristol City of 3,690,377 5,344,331 5,420,114 Bromley 3,247,796 3,406,340 3,536,069 Buckinghamshire 7,265,839 6,687,368 9,211,629 Bury 1,069,800 1,597,500 1,904,900 Calderdale 1,666,947 1,686,998 1,691,900 Cambridgeshire 5,377,674 5,591,033 5,827,965 Camden 1,913,183 2,343,149 2,690,915 Cheshire 7,532,516 7,723,286 8,188,581 City of London 47,800 41,800 5,400 Cornwall 1,930,045 1,981,265 2,158,915 Coventry 2,641,075 2,577,016 2,972,184 Croydon 4,146,027 5,274,945 5,314,215 Cumbria 3,451,647 3,478,907 4,173,164 Darlington 604,267 551,335 616,973 Derby 2,245,241 2,243,925 2,301,235 Derbyshire 5,385,094 6,275,718 6,909,393 Devon 1,104,000 2,198,130 2,229,641 Doncaster 2,789,174 3,418,459 3,669,209 Dorset 3,013,221 4,953,509 5,319,916 Dudley 2,021,960 1,823,425 2,363,191 Durham 5,160,384 4,781,398 4,332,815 Ealing 5,005,000 4,797,200 4,999,756 East Riding of Yorkshire 3,735,851 3,799,159 3,958,640 East Sussex 8,399,051 8,416,982 6,790,684 Enfield 4,451,461 4,165,211 4,375,647 Essex 13,450,194 13,753,166 14,086,532 Gateshead 1,041,523 1,404,394 1,392,821 Gloucestershire 4,030,437 3,843,035 4,420,249 Greenwich 2,977,581 2,998,840 2,867,970 Hackney 3,283,892 3,204,961 3,132,762 Halton 1,163,740 1,173,810 1,198,946 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,046,498 2,148,823 2,226,900 Hampshire 13,580,000 13,900,000 14,487,932 Haringey 3,681,407 3,797,556 3,789,425 Harrow 2,796,349 2,659,873 3,667,547 Hartlepool 1,029,206 1,200,232 1,099,354 Havering 1,326,640 1,481,800 1,830,897 Herefordshire 1,776,000 1,430,125 1,346,521 Hertfordshire 12,572,428 12,507,112 12,595,617 Hillingdon 3,496,740 3,812,012 3,909,041 Hounslow 2,489,641 2,515,382 2,793,417 Isle of Wight 326,664 325,112 339,178 Isles Of Scilly 0 0 0 Islington 2,106,192 1,991,886 1,965,644 Kensington and Chelsea 1,220,170 1,266,052 1,702,997 Kent 15,624,793 17,595,889 16,652,610 Kingston upon Hull City of 2,660,521 2,420,062 2,516,937 Kingston upon Thames 2,012,537 2,089,210 2,194,334 Kirklees 3,277,800 3,336,300 3,400,200 Knowsley 1,528,505 1,590,046 1,490,035 Lambeth 3,775,000 3,463,970 3,284,989 Lancashire 13,156,306 8,796,768 14,472,153 Leeds 5,934,170 6,855,830 7,128,430 Leicester 3,082,099 3,707,306 3,883,960 Leicestershire 6,006,348 6,002,982 5,748,370 Lewisham 3,562,281 4,102,844 3,672,403 Lincolnshire 9,066,597 9,870,736 10,744,197 Liverpool 4,092,271 4,173,883 4,262,111 Luton 2,188,276 2,130,587 2,031,425 Manchester 6,574,967 4,955,332 6,786,111 Medway 2,800,225 2,948,105 3,279,758 Merton 1,558,490 2,105,440 2,138,650 Middlesbrough 1,515,487 1,731,348 1,953,869 Milton Keynes 1,662,081 1,769,505 1,633,537 Newcastle upon Tyne 1,743,121 1,754,430 2,074,210 Newham 3,062,494 3,144,200 3,455,500 Norfolk 8,130,431 9,190,100 9,769,424 North East Lincolnshire 938,902 1,767,000 1,954,798 North Lincolnshire 1,530,751 1,519,080 1,594,240 North Somerset 1,390,049 1,392,598 1,502,835 North Tyneside 1 ,286,433 1,363,436 1,352,237 North Yorkshire 3,910,978 4,260,055 5,583,483 Northamptonshire 5,178,660 5,835,200 6,407,810 Northumberland 2,673,000 2,626,590 2,888,420 Nottingham 1,773,700 1,706,154 1,746,104 Nottinghamshire 4,800,722 5,122,900 5,343,312 Oldham 1,755,450 1,824,780 2,113,529 Oxfordshire 5,506,949 6,367,442 6,485,086 Peterborough 1,729,610 1,905,379 1,834,708 Plymouth 2,985,433 2,506,692 1,998,387 Poole 885,001 976,652 998,705 Portsmouth 1,439,992 1,492,991 1,582,410 Reading 1,266,519 1,252,210 1,196,451 Redbridge 3,111,720 2,772,180 2,805,008 Redcar and Cleveland 888,081 1,145,134 1,085,126 Richmond upon Thames 1,612,000 1,853,800 2,209,300 Rochdale 1,884,535 1,942,003 1,992,660 Rotherham 1,911,662 2,103,623 2,494,588 Rutland 275,810 298,925 272,160 Salford 2,504,545 2,077,061 2,592,910 Sandwell 2,185,800 2,475,300 2,551,900 Sefton 3,062,510 2,501,691 2,802,544 Sheffield 4,381,848 4,514,264 4,605,244 Shropshire 3,291,982 3,223,487 3,317,446 Slough 1,907,295 1,927,471 1,883,190 Solihull 2,007,600 2,050,969 2,159,230 Somerset 3,273,745 3,199,045 3,334,062 South Gloucestershire 2,260,000 2,507,000 2,684,000 South Tyneside 811,170 924,644 1,093,157 Southampton 1,548,500 1,637,171 1,684,382 Southend-on-Sea 2,042,646 1,854,656 1,836,235 Southwark 3,272,300 4,325,397 4,339,792 St. Helens 1,926,082 1,965,606 1,915,161 Staffordshire 6,390,550 7,246,490 7,098,550 Stockport 2,616,029 3,020,274 3,290,741 Stockton-on-Tees 1,706,531 1,842,971 2,073,428 Stoke-on-Trent 1,344,344 1,691,598 2,262,801 Suffolk 5,009,128 5,410,202 5,558,662 Sunderland 2,279,971 2,144,705 2,126,355 Surrey 14,221,959 16,494,879 15,775,204 Sutton 2,449,230 2,592,367 3,212,607 Swindon 1,404,303 1,272,792 1,393,488 Tameside 1,381,390 1,130,000 1,130,000 Telford and Wrekin 1,520,597 1,705,759 1,778,343 Thurrock 1,020,649 1,105,354 1,130,862 Torbay 1,012,678 1,273,475 1,381,273 Tower Hamlets 3,382,931 3,473,230 3,507,801 Trafford 2,904,426 2,957,773 2,775,447 Wakefield 2,923,656 3,107,984 2,709,257 Walsall 2,321,770 2,272,683 2,454,698 Waltham Forest 2,978,994 3,252,937 3,411,268 Wandsworth 2,466,236 2,577,928 2,819,159 Warrington 1,879,406 2,742,869 2,598,513 Warwickshire 4,054,442 4,262,928 4,068,662 West Berkshire 1,686,742 1,796,497 1,974,354 West Sussex 12,075,930 13,335,293 13,422,074 Westminster 2,459,900 3,008,500 3,030,700 Wigan 2,910,872 3,094,565 3,132,493 Wiltshire 4,475,454 4,724,697 4,541,478 Windsor and Maidenhead 1,340,662 1,496,198 1,328,490 Wirral 3,852,600 3,878,400 3,923,400 Wokingham 1,563,828 1,562,502 1,676,516 Wolverhampton 2,534,000 3,017,600 2,907,700 Worcestershire 4,916,196 5,533,438 5,879,560 York 1,045,080 1,107,181 1,179,324 1 Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 15 February 2008. 2.Data are drawn from local authorities Section 52 Budget Statement (Table 1) submitted to the DCSF (formally DfES). 3 SEN transport expenditure includes budgeted expenditure by local authorities in England on the cost of LA vehicles, public transport and contract hire for: travel between home and mainstream schools, early years settings and special schools where entitlement to assistance is agreed for reasons of SEN and/or disability additional travel arrangements made during the school day to facilitate inclusion additional travel arrangements made to support pupils with SEN and/ or disabilities to take part in extended school activities outside of normal school hours travel to provision, other than a school, where it is made to meet a special educational need the cost of those escorts provided to support travel for children with SEN and / or disabilities travel between home and mainstream schools and special schools for young people over the age of 16 where entitlement to assistance is agreed for reasons of SEN and/or disability any costs for home to college transport for special education needs pupils. Note: 2007-08 data are subject to change by the local authority.