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Written Answer to Question

Thursday 24 September 1992

EDUCATION

Education Expenditure (London)

Mr. Thomason : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how the cost of education provision has changed within inner London in comparison to those costs for outer London between the financial years preceding, including and succeeding the abolition of the Inner London education authority.

Mr. Forth : The latest year for which information on local education authorities' actual spending is available is

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1989-90. That was the last year of the Inner London education authority. In the three years to 1989-90, London LEAs' net recurrent expenditure on education was as shown in the table.

LEAs' net recurrent expenditure<1> on education                 

Year            |Inner London<2>|Outer London                   

                |£ million      |£ million                      

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1987-88         |1,103          |1,202                          

1988-89         |1,086          |1,417                          

1989-90         |1,085          |1,485                          

<1> Net recurrent expenditure includes total expenditure other  

than capital financing costs, less income other than from       

specific Government grants. Information is taken from           

LEAs{apos} returns to the Department of the Environment of      

their actual spending.                                          

<2> Excluding the following LEAs, which did not complete        

returns: 1987-88, Ealing and Haringey{thin sp}; 1988-89,        

Haringey{thin sp}; 1989-90, Haringey and Hounslow.              

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