(2) what the average funding per pupil is in England for the 2008-09 school year.
The Dedicated Schools Grant guaranteed per pupil units of funding for 2008-09 are provided in the following tables for local authorities grouped by type: London, metropolitan, unitary and upper tier. Guaranteed units of funding are not calculated at a county level. The average figure for England is £4,066 per pupil. This covers all funded pupils aged three to 15. Figures are in cash terms. In addition to the Dedicated Schools Grant there are other grants that support the schools budget whose allocations have not yet been finalised.
London authorities 2008-09 guaranteed per pupil unit of funding (£) Barking and Dagenham 4,563 Barnet 4,559 Bexley 4,151 Brent 4,894 Bromley 3,966 Camden 6,161 City of London 7,362 Croydon 4,267 Ealing 4,832 Enfield 4,437 Greenwich 5,361 Hackney 6,170 Hammersmith and Fulham 5,635 Haringey 4,987 Harrow 4,507 Havering 4,137 Hillingdon 4,361 Hounslow 4,651 Islington 5,812 Kensington and Chelsea 5,757 Kingston upon Thames 4,256 Lambeth 5,848 Lewisham 5,556 Merton 4,452 Newham 5,071 Redbridge 4,214 Richmond upon Thames 4,311 Southwark 5,756 Sutton 4,253 Tower Hamlets 6,289 Waltham Forest 4,584 Wandsworth 5,146 Westminster 5,439
Metropolitan authorities 2008-09 guaranteed per pupil unit of funding (£) Barnsley 3,848 Birmingham 4,448 Bolton 3,978 Bradford 4,107 Bury 3,926 Calderdale 3,912 Coventry 4,110 Doncaster 3,941 Dudley 3,949 Gateshead 3,986 Kirklees 3,947 Knowsley 4,236 Leeds 3,926 Liverpool 4,320 Manchester 4,571 Newcastle upon Tyne 4,096 North Tyneside 3,836 Oldham 4,118 Rochdale 4,171 Rotherham 4,045 Salford 4,309 Sandwell 4,214 Sefton 3,917 Sheffield 3,947 Solihull 3,750 South Tyneside 4,092 St. Helens 3,977 Stockport 3,902 Sunderland 3,990 Tameside 3,983 Trafford 3,852 Wakefield 3,881 Walsall 4,023 Wigan 3,948 Wirral 3,937 Wolverhampton 4,145
Unitary authorities 2008-09 guaranteed per pupil unit of funding (£) Bath and North East Somerset 3,891 Blackburn with Darwen 4,254 Blackpool 3,982 Bournemouth 3,825 Bracknell Forest 4,017 Brighton and Hove 4,103 Bristol, City of 4,366 Darlington 3,944 Derby 3,978 East Riding of Yorkshire 3,715 Halton 4,226 Hartlepool 4,029 Herefordshire 3,687 Isle of Wight 4,051 Kingston upon Hull, City of 4,168 Leicester 4,151 Luton 4,251 Medway 4,034 Middlesbrough 4,182 Milton Keynes 4,080 North East Lincolnshire 4,134 North Lincolnshire 3,822 North Somerset 3,757 Nottingham 4,500 Peterborough 4,098 Plymouth 3,889 Poole 3,724 Portsmouth 4,061 Reading 4,260 Redcar and Cleveland 3,990 Rutland 3,898 Slough 4,404 South Gloucestershire 3,647 Southampton 4,117 Southend-on-Sea 4,026 Stockton-on-Tees 3,960 Stoke-on-Trent 4,070 Swindon 3,775 Telford and Wrekin 3,911 Thurrock 4,141 Torbay 3,922 Warrington 3,819 West Berkshire 3,984 Windsor and Maidenhead 4,040 Wokingham 3,844 York 3,801
Upper tier authorities 2008-09 guaranteed per pupil unit of funding (£) Bedfordshire 3,817 Buckinghamshire 3,899 Cambridgeshire 3,787 Cheshire 3,880 Cornwall 3,742 Cumbria 3,831 Derbyshire 3,825 Devon 3,707 Dorset 3,799 Durham 3,982 East Sussex 3,997 Essex 3,924 Gloucestershire 3,744 Hampshire 3,824 Hertfordshire 3,896 Kent 3,938 Lancashire 3,927 Leicestershire 3,596 Lincolnshire 3,795 Norfolk 3,807 North Yorkshire 3,854 Northamptonshire 3,785 Northumberland 3,711 Nottinghamshire 3,842 Oxfordshire 3,870 Shropshire 3,715 Somerset 3,752 Staffordshire 3,776 Suffolk 3,763 Surrey 3,976 Warwickshire 3,789 West Sussex 3,877 Wiltshire 3,713 Worcestershire 3,729 Notes: 1. This covers funding through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). 2. This figure does not represent the totality of ‘education’ funding allocated in that year.