In 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 local authorities received funding to provide free nursery education for three and four-year-olds through the under-fives sub-block of their education formula spending (EFS). The funding figures broken down by local authority are as follows:
Funding through EFS under five block LA name 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 Barking and Dagenham 15.1 15.4 16.0 Barnet 21.5 22.4 24.9 Barnsley 12.3 12.4 13.2 Bath and North East Somerset 8.9 8.9 9.6 Bedfordshire 23.2 23.7 26.2 Bexley 15.0 15.6 17.2 Birmingham 80.4 83.0 90.6 Blackburn with Darwen 11.8 12.1 13.1 Blackpool 8.7 8.6 9.3 Bolton 18.1 18.8 20.4 Bournemouth 8.1 8.4 8.5 Bracknell Forest 6.3 6.7 7.1 Bradford 36.0 38.2 43.0 Brent 20.7 21.7 23.4 Brighton and Hove 12.7 13.2 13.8 Bristol, City of 23.8 23.5 26.2 Bromley 20.0 20.4 21.8 Buckinghamshire 27.7 29.6 32.5 Bury 11.3 11.8 12.7 Calderdale 13.2 13.6 14.9 Cambridgeshire 31.4 32.6 35.2 Camden 14.4 15.8 17.1 Cheshire 37.7 38.3 41.7 City of London 0.2 0.3 0.3 Cornwall 23.8 25.0 27.0 Coventry 20.2 20.4 22.3 Croydon 25.0 25.6 27.1 Cumbria 26.2 26.5 28.6 Darlington 6.4 6.5 7.1 Derby 15.5 16.2 18.0 Derbyshire 41.6 42.8 45.8 Devon 35.2 34.6 39.8 Doncaster 18.5 18.9 18.7 Dorset 18.2 18.7 19.7 Dudley 18.8 19.0 20.9 Durham 28.8 29.4 31.0 Ealing 23.4 24.7 26.7 East Riding of Yorkshire 16.2 16.8 17.8 East Sussex 25.5 25.8 27.6 Enfield 22.0 23.0 24.4 Essex 76.8 78.9 85.3 Gateshead 11.6 11.8 12.4 Gloucestershire 31.2 32.3 34.9 Greenwich 20.5 21.5 23.2 Hackney 22.3 23.6 26.4 Halton 8.1 8.3 8.8 Hammersmith and Fulham 11.6 12.8 4.1 Hampshire 73.1 74.8 80.4 Haringey 20.3 21.0 21.6 Harrow 14.4 14.7 15.7 Hartlepool 6.1 6.2 7.0 Havering 14.2 14.9 15.8 Herefordshire 9.1 9.4 10.0 Hertfordshire 69.4 71.8 75.2 Hillingdon 18.9 20.0 21.9 Hounslow 17.0 16.9 18.6 Isle of Wight 7.2 7.3 7.9 Isles of Scilly 0.2 0.2 0.2 Islington 16.9 17.7 19.0 Kensington and Chelsea 9.3 10.4 11.1 Kent 82.2 84.5 90.5 Kingston upon Hull, City of 16.6 16.6 16.7 Kingston upon Thames 9.0 9.6 10.2 Kirklees 26.8 28.4 29.7 Knowsley 12.2 12.0 12.9 Lambeth 24.5 25.3 27.0 Lancashire 67.0 68.2 73.6 Leeds 43.0 44.1 47.3 Leicester 21.8 22.8 24.2 Leicestershire 32.5 33.8 37.3 Lewisham 23.2 23.4 25.5 Lincolnshire 34.8 36.7 39.4 Liverpool 31.1 30.9 32.8 Luton 14.5 15.6 16.7 Manchester 32.2 33.1 35.8 Medway 16.6 6.7 17.7 Merton 12.5 12.9 14.6 Middlesbrough 10.1 10.4 11.1 Milton Keynes 13.1 15.8 17.5 Newcastle upon Tyne 16.3 16.2 17.1 Newham 29.6 30.2 32.6 Norfolk 41.2 42.8 45.7 North East Lincolnshire 10.1 10.0 11.4 North Lincolnshire 9.1 9.2 9.8 North Somerset 9.7 10.5 11.4 North Tyneside 11.4 11.8 12.3 North Yorkshire 30.0 30.3 32.4 Northamptonshire 39.8 40.9 44.0 Northumberland 16.9 17.4 18.8 Nottingham 17.3 17.9 18.9 Nottinghamshire 37.4 38.3 41.0 Oldham 16.7 17.2 19.1 Oxfordshire 31.1 32.6 35.2 Peterborough 11.6 11.9 12.9 Plymouth 14.4 14.5 15.3 Poole 6.9 6.8 7.4 Portsmouth 11.7 11.7 12.3 Reading 7.9 8.0 9.3 Redbridge 18.7 19.2 20.6 Redcar and Cleveland 8.7 8.8 9.4 Richmond upon Thames 9.6 10.7 12.0 Rochdale 15.1 15.6 16.5 Rotherham 16.4 16.8 18.0 Rutland 1.7 1.9 2.1 Salford 14.8 14.9 15.7 Sandwell 21.0 21.7 23.6 Sefton 16.5 16.5 17.4 Sheffield 31.6 32.7 34.9 Shropshire 13.6 13.6 14.7 Slough 9.4 9.6 10.4 Solihull 12.5 13.0 13.9 Somerset 27.1 27.8 29.1 South Gloucestershire 15.2 15.5 16.4 South Tyneside 9.4 9.4 10.0 Southampton 13.2 14.8 13.8 Southend-on-Sea 10.3 11.2 11.9 Southwark 26.3 27.2 28.8 St. Helens 11.0 11.4 12.1 Staffordshire 45.1 46.0 48.8 Stockport 16.7 16.8 18.0 Stockton-on-Tees 11.7 11.8 13.1 Stoke-on-Trent 15.3 15.1 16.6 Suffolk 34.2 34.6 37.0 Sunderland 17.4 17.7 18.7 Surrey 60.3 65.0 69.9 Sutton 10.0 12.3 13.2 Swindon 11.5 12.0 13.0 Tameside 13.8 14.0 15.3 Telford and Wrekin 10.1 11.4 12.1 Thurrock 9.9 10.5 11.1 Torbay 6.7 7.1 7.6 Tower Hamlets 24.4 26.1 28.4 Trafford 12.9 13.1 14.7 Wakefield 17.8 18.4 20.4 Walsall 17.8 18.8 20.6 Waltham Forest 17.2 18.2 19.5 Wandsworth 20.7 21.9 23.9 Warrington 11.8 12.1 13.3 Warwickshire 28.9 30.1 32.4 West Berkshire 8.0 8.4 9.7 West Sussex 40.4 41.9 45.8 Westminster 13.0 13.8 15.1 Wigan 18.3 18.3 20.1 Wiltshire 25.2 25.9 28.8 Windsor and Maidenhead 7.3 7.4 8.5 Wirral 19.6 19.7 21.2 Wokingham 8.0 7.9 8.9 Wolverhampton 16.9 17.3 18.6 Worcestershire 29.6 30.7 33.1 York 9.1 9.1 10.1 Total 3,106.4 3,208.1 3,456.7 Notes: 1. Price base: cash. 2. All figures include the pensions transfer to EFS. 3. These figures are rounded to the nearest £0.1 million.
Education formula spending was not ring-fenced, so funding for education (including the notional under-fives funding) could be spent on other sectors and vice versa.