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LEA 1993 1994
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Corporation of London |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0
Camden |452 |0 |5.4 |0.0 |542 |0 |6.1 |0.0
Greenwich |1,719 |118 |10.1 |0.7 |2,301 |0 |13.3 |0.0
Hackney |656 |0 |5.0 |0.0 |499 |0 |3.7 |0.0
Hammersmith and Fulham |719 |0 |10.0 |0.0 |795 |0 |11.1 |0.0
Islington |635 |38 |5.2 |0.3 |892 |0 |6.9 |0.0
Kensington and Chelsea |159 |0 |3.3 |0.0 |418 |36 |8.3 |0.7
Lambeth |762 |0 |4.8 |0.0 |816 |0 |5.2 |0.0
Lewisham |1,486 |220 |8.5 |1.3 |1,318 |0 |7.2 |0.0
Southwark |1,818 |76 |10.4 |0.4 |2,331 |0 |12.3 |0.0
Tower Hamlets |511 |108 |3.8 |0.8 |601 |37 |4.6 |0.3
Wandsworth |1,271 |301 |9.0 |2.1 |1,471 |195 |10.5 |1.4
Westminster |355 |36 |5.5 |0.6 |352 |76 |4.9 |1.1
Barking and Dagenham |828 |193 |5.9 |1.4 |1,183 |232 |8.3 |1.6
Barnet |1,857 |171 |9.3 |0.9 |2,319 |115 |11.1 |0.6
Bexley |5,215 |235 |29.6 |1.3 |5,838 |72 |31.6 |0.4
Brent |1,865 |280 |10.2 |1.5 |1,819 |338 |9.6 |1.8
Bromley |7,461 |0 |37.8 |0.0 |10,239 |146 |46.8 |0.7
Croydon |4,022 |0 |17.4 |0.0 |4,667 |229 |19.6 |1.0
Ealing |4,149 |112 |18.7 |0.5 |4,001 |145 |19.6 |0.7
Enfield |6,045 |36 |31.4 |0.2 |7,201 |36 |35.2 |0.2
Haringey |631 |0 |3.8 |0.0 |657 |75 |3.9 |0.4
Harrow |3,740 |0 |24.2 |0.0 |3,472 |72 |22.2 |0.5
Havering |3,805 |76 |20.7 |0.4 |4,030 |146 |21.3 |0.8
Hillingdon |4,308 |634 |25.0 |3.7 |4,422 |474 |24.9 |2.7
Hounslow |4,082 |446 |26.5 |2.9 |4,570 |749 |28.7 |4.7
Kingston upon Thames |5,164 |39 |55.4 |0.4 |5,299 |185 |56.0 |2.0
Merton |2,159 |340 |18.2 |2.9 |2,783 |331 |22.6 |2.7
Newham |1,313 |559 |6.2 |2.6 |1,201 |116 |5.4 |0.5
Redbridge |8,500 |254 |53.5 |1.6 |8,054 |402 |50.3 |2.5
Richmond upon Thames |1,580 |37 |16.3 |0.4 |869 |265 |8.8 |2.7
Sutton |4,350 |216 |38.6 |1.9 |4,552 |144 |38.8 |1.2
Waltham Forest |3,614 |152 |21.4 |0.9 |3,088 |112 |17.8 |0.6
Birmingham |25,683 |1,302 |26.6 |1.4 |25,730 |1,434 |26.9 |1.5
Coventry |4,945 |501 |20.0 |2.0 |4,940 |601 |19.5 |2.4
Dudley |3,832 |919 |17.2 |4.1 |6,524 |973 |27.1 |4.0
Sandwell |8,064 |1,179 |30.4 |4.4 |8,863 |1,312 |32.7 |4.8
Solihull |4,734 |665 |27.3 |3.8 |6,200 |511 |34.1 |2.8
Walsall |5,293 |704 |24.3 |3.2 |5,066 |511 |22.8 |2.3
Wolverhampton |4,351 |380 |20.4 |1.8 |4,774 |381 |22.3 |1.8
Knowsley |4,333 |680 |26.6 |4.2 |5,271 |644 |31.0 |3.8
Liverpool |10,047 |1,057 |21.5 |2.3 |11,660 |960 |24.5 |2.0
St. Helens |3,778 |527 |25.6 |3.6 |4,586 |851 |31.6 |5.9
Sefton |7,470 |514 |31.1 |2.1 |7,742 |516 |31.6 |2.1
Wirral |4,506 |220 |16.1 |0.8 |5,410 |518 |18.6 |1.8
Bolton |7,047 |1,637 |32.5 |7.5 |7,010 |2,036 |31.8 |9.2
Bury |4,430 |1,028 |30.1 |7.0 |5,087 |1,152 |32.6 |7.4
Manchester |7,879 |2,228 |19.1 |5.4 |8,446 |1,173 |20.5 |2.9
Oldham |7,657 |1,016 |36.7 |4.9 |7,746 |871 |36.9 |4.2
Rochdale |8,014 |637 |43.7 |3.5 |7,300 |720 |39.8 |3.9
Salford |4,856 |767 |22.1 |3.5 |5,603 |1,214 |25.2 |5.5
Stockport |6,443 |1,181 |26.8 |4.9 |6,813 |1,366 |28.2 |5.6
Tameside |8,966 |773 |43.6 |3.8 |10,943 |1,136 |51.1 |5.3
Trafford |7,398 |1,220 |42.2 |7.0 |7,729 |1,422 |41.9 |7.7
Wigan |7,066 |1,952 |28.3 |7.8 |7,572 |2,425 |29.0 |9.3
Barnsley |3,660 |434 |18.5 |2.2 |5,185 |471 |26.0 |2.4
Doncaster |5,076 |930 |19.3 |3.5 |6,296 |1,252 |23.7 |4.7
Rotherham |1,927 |271 |8.8 |1.2 |2,334 |235 |10.4 |1.1
Sheffield |6,375 |1,480 |17.1 |4.0 |6,821 |1,460 |18.1 |3.9
Bradford |5,436 |507 |17.6 |1.6 |8,214 |567 |25.6 |1.8
Calderdale |4,564 |108 |26.1 |0.6 |4,942 |326 |28.3 |1.9
Kirklees |6,706 |1,098 |22.8 |3.7 |8,391 |981 |26.8 |3.1
Leeds |12,263 |3,046 |22.6 |5.6 |16,686 |2,719 |28.2 |4.6
Wakefield |7,328 |1,208 |28.8 |4.8 |8,738 |1,258 |32.3 |4.7
Gateshead |1,851 |135 |11.5 |0.8 |1,786 |76 |10.8 |0.5
Newcastle upon Tyne |5,100 |827 |25.5 |4.1 |5,083 |760 |24.8 |3.7
North Tyneside |2,514 |448 |17.2 |3.1 |3,408 |497 |22.7 |3.3
South Tyneside |2,684 |339 |18.7 |2.4 |2,915 |541 |20.1 |3.7
Sunderland |3,703 |175 |14.3 |0.7 |4,022 |222 |15.4 |0.8
Isles of Scilly |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |31 |0 |18.5 |0.0
Avon |21,699 |1,185 |29.4 |1.6 |25,695 |1,058 |34.1 |1.4
Bedfordshire |6,880 |1,661 |19.4 |4.7 |7,314 |1,750 |19.7 |4.7
Berkshire |13,413 |1,258 |24.6 |2.3 |15,220 |1,070 |27.0 |1.9
Buckinghamshire |14,903 |2,380 |26.4 |4.2 |16,670 |2,402 |29.1 |4.2
Cambridgeshire |13,361 |551 |25.1 |1.0 |13,979 |1,100 |25.2 |2.0
Cheshire |26,668 |3,629 |32.5 |4.4 |27,187 |3,006 |32.6 |3.6
Cleveland |11,107 |2,542 |19.3 |4.4 |10,863 |2,523 |18.8 |4.4
Cornwall |12,193 |1,299 |32.3 |3.4 |12,409 |1,032 |32.4 |2.7
Cumbria |8,439 |793 |22.1 |2.1 |8,568 |817 |22.1 |2.1
Derbyshire |24,368 |3,017 |32.8 |4.1 |25,613 |4,369 |34.1 |5.8
Devon |18,990 |1,814 |25.1 |2.4 |19,328 |1,847 |24.9 |2.4
Dorset |15,596 |926 |39.2 |2.3 |17,562 |580 |42.6 |1.4
Durham |13,024 |1,014 |25.8 |2.0 |13,729 |1,283 |26.5 |2.5
East Sussex |16,575 |364 |36.5 |0.8 |18,862 |435 |39.8 |0.9
Essex |28,347 |228 |24.3 |0.2 |29,961 |768 |25.2 |0.6
Gloucestershire |8,821 |451 |21.5 |1.1 |10,644 |479 |25.4 |1.1
Hampshire |34,607 |1,295 |28.5 |1.1 |40,820 |3,484 |31.5 |2.7
Hereford and Worcester |8,354 |533 |18.5 |1.2 |9,432 |478 |20.1 |1.0
Hertfordshire |18,153 |514 |24.5 |0.7 |20,658 |686 |26.8 |0.9
Humberside |17,365 |3,154 |23.2 |4.2 |21,804 |4,110 |28.1 |5.3
Isle of Wight |1,598 |258 |23.2 |3.7 |1,672 |190 |23.9 |2.7
Kent |37,731 |974 |31.2 |0.8 |40,873 |697 |33.0 |0.6
Lancashire |38,724 |5,094 |33.8 |4.4 |39,400 |6,008 |33.6 |5.1
Leicestershire |14,646 |1,317 |20.5 |1.8 |13,760 |673 |19.2 |0.9
Lincolnshire |10,721 |928 |23.1 |2.0 |11,975 |667 |25.2 |1.4
Norfolk |10,376 |707 |17.9 |1.2 |10,584 |591 |18.5 |1.0
North Yorkshire |11,333 |785 |20.9 |1.5 |12,653 |1,049 |22.9 |1.9
Northamptonshire |8,233 |186 |18.3 |0.4 |9,402 |188 |20.2 |0.4
Northumberland |5,411 |1,050 |28.6 |5.6 |6,301 |1,600 |33.0 |8.4
Nottinghamshire |15,625 |3,253 |19.5 |4.1 |17,125 |2,822 |20.8 |3.4
Oxfordshire |5,107 |387 |14.0 |1.1 |5,242 |608 |13.7 |1.6
Shropshire |6,635 |529 |20.3 |1.6 |8,530 |555 |25.5 |1.7
Somerset |9,752 |584 |29.6 |1.8 |10,074 |402 |28.9 |1.2
Staffordshire |25,402 |5,392 |29.4 |6.2 |24,238 |6,500 |27.8 |7.5
Suffolk |4,911 |135 |12.3 |0.3 |5,386 |222 |13.2 |0.5
Surrey |14,689 |749 |20.9 |1.1 |13,064 |677 |19.2 |1.0
Warwickshire |11,973 |1,029 |29.3 |2.5 |11,984 |756 |28.8 |1.8
West Sussex |8,630 |478 |17.6 |1.0 |10,459 |475 |20.6 |0.9
Wiltshire |10,854 |297 |24.3 |0.7 |11,784 |401 |25.7 |0.9
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England |896,424 |89,510 |24.1 |2.4 |979,291 |97,178 |25.7 |2.5
2. Secondary schools (classes of size)
LEA 1991 1992
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Corporation of London |0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
Camden |2,885 |534 |0 |33.4 |6.2 |0.0 |2,897 |442 |0 |33.5 |5.1 |0.0
Greenwich |4,645 |126 |0 |38.7 |1.0 |0.0 |4,682 |192 |0 |39.1 |1.6 |0.0
Hackney |2,593 |279 |0 |45.0 |4.8 |0.0 |2,657 |157 |0 |41.9 |2.5 |0.0
Hammersmith and Fulham |1,980 |287 |0 |36.7 |5.3 |0.0 |1,743 |731 |0 |33.4 |14.0 |0.0
Islington |2,743 |93 |0 |53.0 |1.8 |0.0 |3,068 |124 |0 |52.7 |2.1 |0.0
Kensington and Chelsea |424 |96 |0 |18.6 |4.2 |0.0 |484 |62 |0 |20.4 |2.6 |0.0
Lambeth |1,631 |319 |0 |30.8 |6.0 |0.0 |1,830 |93 |0 |31.9 |1.6 |0.0
Lewisham |4,034 |191 |108 |41.8 |2.0 |1.1 |4,533 |288 |0 |49.2 |3.1 |0.0
Southwark |3,504 |218 |0 |43.8 |2.7 |0.0 |3,964 |562 |0 |48.7 |6.9 |0.0
Tower Hamlets |2,538 |158 |51 |33.9 |2.1 |0.7 |3,086 |95 |0 |38.7 |1.2 |0.0
Wandsworth |2,730 |257 |56 |35.2 |3.3 |0.7 |2,769 |188 |0 |37.0 |2.5 |0.0
Westminster |988 |313 |0 |15.9 |5.0 |0.0 |2,225 |159 |0 |35.0 |2.5 |0.0
Barking and Dagenham |2,871 |93 |37 |41.3 |1.3 |0.5 |3,879 |311 |0 |45.7 |3.7 |0.0
Barnet |4,636 |1,403 |0 |29.8 |9.0 |0.0 |4,193 |1,109 |0 |25.8 |6.8 |0.0
Bexley |4,604 |1,011 |37 |37.8 |8.3 |0.3 |5,236 |1,002 |0 |42.6 |8.2 |0.0
Brent |2,802 |285 |0 |31.7 |3.2 |0.0 |3,073 |408 |41 |32.3 |4.3 |0.4
Bromley |4,568 |1,510 |0 |32.6 |10.8 |0.0 |4,430 |1,662 |0 |30.4 |11.4 |0.0
Croydon |4,676 |826 |0 |35.5 |6.3 |0.0 |3,897 |759 |0 |30.3 |5.9 |0.0
Ealing |2,746 |256 |40 |28.8 |2.7 |0.4 |3,137 |538 |87 |32.7 |5.6 |0.9
Enfield |4,263 |1,660 |109 |30.9 |12.0 |0.8 |4,389 |1,715 |37 |29.8 |11.6 |0.3
Haringey |2,357 |0 |0 |31.1 |0.0 |0.0 |3,187 |93 |0 |40.4 |1.2 |0.0
Harrow |2,083 |507 |0 |31.0 |7.5 |0.0 |2,419 |412 |36 |33.4 |5.7 |0.5
Havering |3,525 |1,328 |36 |25.3 |9.5 |0.3 |4,271 |1,294 |0 |31.1 |9.4 |0.0
Hillingdon |3,355 |796 |0 |29.3 |6.9 |0.0 |3,473 |793 |0 |29.2 |6.7 |0.0
Hounslow |4,041 |827 |36 |36.9 |7.5 |0.3 |4,467 |977 |128 |38.5 |8.4 |1.1
Kingston upon Thames |1,708 |421 |0 |26.6 |6.6 |0.0 |1,452 |828 |0 |21.2 |12.1 |0.0
Merton |2,236 |62 |0 |39.5 |1.1 |0.0 |2,656 |128 |0 |41.5 |2.0 |0.0
Newham |5,431 |62 |0 |49.0 |0.6 |0.0 |5,322 |221 |50 |46.0 |1.9 |0.4
Redbridge |4,915 |916 |37 |41.4 |7.7 |0.3 |4,618 |1,202 |73 |36.9 |9.6 |0.6
Richmond upon Thames |2,103 |313 |0 |34.9 |5.2 |0.0 |2,281 |279 |0 |37.6 |4.6 |0.0
Sutton |2,697 |894 |0 |29.3 |9.7 |0.0 |3,166 |766 |0 |33.4 |8.1 |0.0
Waltham Forest |2,938 |253 |37 |31.8 |2.7 |0.4 |3,265 |344 |0 |34.3 |3.6 |0.0
Birmingham |18,467 |6,271 |36 |34.4 |11.7 |0.1 |19,678 |5,764 |36 |35.4 |10.4 |0.1
Coventry |5,338 |1,041 |0 |35.1 |6.9 |0.0 |5,460 |1,507 |44 |34.1 |9.4 |0.3
Dudley |3,139 |566 |0 |23.4 |4.2 |0.0 |4,609 |409 |40 |29.8 |2.6 |0.3
Sandwell |4,992 |509 |0 |30.4 |3.1 |0.0 |4,196 |442 |0 |26.7 |2.8 |0.0
Solihull |4,078 |1,023 |37 |34.8 |8.7 |0.3 |3,879 |1,204 |0 |31.6 |9.8 |0.0
Walsall |4,830 |946 |0 |30.5 |6.0 |0.0 |5,140 |993 |37 |30.6 |5.9 |0.2
Wolverhampton |3,555 |506 |0 |27.2 |3.9 |0.0 |3,240 |665 |36 |24.6 |5.0 |0.3
Knowsley |2,672 |190 |0 |33.5 |2.4 |0.0 |2,998 |255 |42 |37.7 |3.2 |0.5
Liverpool |8,726 |1,252 |0 |35.6 |5.1 |0.0 |8,694 |1,374 |37 |35.6 |5.6 |0.2
St. Helens |3,318 |607 |75 |32.7 |6.0 |0.7 |3,437 |926 |39 |31.5 |8.5 |0.4
Sefton |5,469 |1,286 |0 |35.2 |8.3 |0.0 |5,357 |1,398 |0 |34.2 |8.9 |0.0
Wirral |6,216 |632 |0 |33.3 |3.4 |0.0 |5,676 |916 |36 |30.7 |5.0 |0.2
Bolton |3,718 |942 |0 |24.7 |6.3 |0.0 |4,911 |1,383 |0 |31.8 |9.0 |0.0
Bury |2,905 |600 |0 |34.2 |7.1 |0.0 |3,443 |1,138 |36 |37.6 |12.4 |0.4
Manchester |6,545 |539 |0 |34.5 |2.8 |0.0 |6,197 |472 |0 |33.5 |2.5 |0.0
Oldham |5,070 |1,268 |0 |38.3 |9.6 |0.0 |5,505 |800 |73 |39.8 |5.8 |0.5
Rochdale |2,971 |351 |74 |26.1 |3.1 |0.7 |3,899 |317 |0 |35.0 |2.8 |0.0
Salford |1.917 |155 |0 |18.6 |1.5 |0.0 |2,172 |156 |0 |20.6 |1.5 |0.0
Stockport |4,476 |663 |36 |32.8 |4.9 |0.3 |4,693 |565 |0 |33.8 |4.1 |0.0
Tameside |3,927 |439 |0 |34.2 |3.8 |0.0 |3,826 |726 |0 |32.5 |6.2 |0.0
Trafford |3,347 |125 |0 |33.4 |1.2 |0.0 |3,423 |537 |0 |32.5 |5.1 |0.0
Wigan |4,578 |568 |36 |27.1 |3.4 |0.2 |4,728 |830 |0 |28.3 |5.0 |0.0
Barnsley |4,305 |350 |0 |39.1 |3.2 |0.0 |4,356 |445 |0 |40.2 |4.1 |0.0
Doncaster |4,767 |631 |0 |26.7 |3.5 |0.0 |5,092 |1,052 |0 |28.4 |5.9 |0.0
Rotherham |5,004 |732 |36 |34.5 |5.1 |0.2 |4,834 |601 |0 |32.6 |4.1 |0.0
Sheffield |5,803 |506 |36 |28.3 |2.5 |0.2 |7,017 |415 |123 |33.1 |2.0 |0.6
Bradford |11,233 |3,238 |36 |30.7 |8.8 |0.1 |11,713 |3,525 |0 |31.5 |9.5 |0.0
Calderdale |4,158 |765 |0 |38.4 |7.1 |0.0 |4,121 |1,037 |0 |36.1 |9.1 |0.0
Kirklees |7,097 |529 |36 |32.0 |2.4 |0.2 |7,612 |753 |0 |35.5 |3.5 |0.0
Leeds |13,063 |3,600 |385 |28.7 |7.9 |0.8 |14,426 |3,363 |152 |31.9 |7.4 |0.3
Wakefield |5,473 |1,212 |77 |29.2 |6.5 |0.4 |6,385 |1,087 |36 |33.9 |5.8 |0.2
Gateshead |3,139 |821 |0 |31.4 |8.2 |0.0 |3,522 |789 |0 |34.6 |7.7 |0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne |4,489 |767 |0 |30.3 |5.2 |0.0 |4,362 |1,209 |46 |29.4 |8.2 |0.3
North Tyneside |4,181 |594 |0 |34.6 |4.9 |0.0 |4,464 |533 |0 |36.1 |4.3 |0.0
South Tyneside |1,932 |189 |0 |27.0 |2.6 |0.0 |2,776 |312 |0 |35.5 |4.0 |0.0
Sunderland |5,313 |1,325 |0 |32.7 |8.2 |0.0 |5,439 |984 |37 |33.7 |6.1 |0.2
Isles of Scilly |0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |26 |0 |0 |35.6 |0.0 |0.0
Avon |16,072 |3,348 |36 |34.2 |7.1 |0.1 |17,490 |2,827 |79 |36.9 |6.0 |0.2
Bedfordshire |13,737 |2,449 |156 |38.2 |6.8 |0.4 |14,134 |1,651 |0 |38.2 |4.5 |0.0
Berkshire |12,463 |3,189 |76 |30.1 |7.7 |0.2 |12,416 |3,905 |0 |29.7 |9.3 |0.0
Buckinghamshire |9,404 |1,493 |134 |33.0 |5.2 |0.5 |10,844 |1,882 |42 |36.7 |6.4 |0.1
Cambridgeshire |11,733 |2,590 |0 |35.8 |7.9 |0.0 |14,012 |2,275 |174 |39.8 |6.5 |0.5
Cheshire |18,250 |5,946 |72 |32.7 |10.6 |0.1 |18,503 |6,822 |229 |32.4 |11.9 |0.4
Cleveland |9,172 |796 |39 |29.1 |2.5 |0.1 |9,425 |913 |0 |29.0 |2.8 |0.0
Cornwall |10,108 |2,252 |110 |39.7 |8.8 |0.4 |10,462 |1,974 |37 |40.8 |7.7 |0.1
Cumbria |8,212 |1,047 |73 |31.4 |4.0 |0.3 |7,958 |1,718 |38 |29.2 |6.3 |0.1
Derbyshire |13,089 |1,919 |109 |28.0 |4.1 |0.2 |14,530 |2,849 |122 |30.3 |5.9 |0.3
Devon |16,995 |3,415 |335 |34.2 |6.9 |0.7 |17,808 |4,152 |282 |35.9 |8.4 |0.6
Dorset |11,191 |2,501 |72 |32.8 |7.3 |0.2 |13,019 |3,114 |0 |37.2 |8.9 |0.0
Durham |11,632 |2,410 |38 |37.7 |7.8 |0.1 |12,003 |2,419 |0 |38.9 |7.8 |0.0
East Sussex |10,377 |1,395 |0 |38.9 |5.2 |0.0 |10,803 |1,529 |75 |39.2 |5.6 |0.3
Essex |31,156 |7,387 |170 |37.4 |8.9 |0.2 |32,324 |7,537 |110 |38.4 |9.0 |0.1
Gloucestershire |9,836 |1,935 |73 |34.8 |6.8 |0.3 |9,295 |2,386 |0 |32.8 |8.4 |0.0
Hampshire |23,720 |3,594 |36 |34.8 |5.3 |0.1 |26,383 |4,186 |94 |38.2 |6.1 |0.1
Hereford and Worcester |14,942 |4,561 |72 |35.1 |10.7 |0.2 |15,818 |4,540 |79 |36.8 |10.6 |0.2
Hertfordshire |18,534 |5,038 |0 |32.7 |8.9 |0.0 |19,467 |4,560 |36 |33.3 |7.8 |0.1
Humberside |17,521 |2,826 |0 |34.9 |5.6 |0.0 |18,207 |2,795 |112 |35.9 |5.5 |0.2
Isle of Wight |3,073 |376 |0 |35.2 |4.3 |0.0 |2,976 |504 |0 |33.6 |5.7 |0.0
Kent |27,956 |5,946 |62 |32.3 |6.9 |0.1 |30,081 |7,081 |56 |34.0 |8.0 |0.0
Lancashire |22,397 |6,417 |186 |30.3 |8.7 |0.3 |23,661 |6,325 |403 |31.3 |8.4 |0.5
Leicestershire |15,372 |1,582 |248 |31.4 |3.2 |0.5 |15,101 |2,400 |41 |30.4 |4.8 |0.1
Lincolnshire |10,637 |1,840 |36 |32.9 |5.7 |0.1 |10,421 |1,682 |76 |32.4 |5.2 |0.2
Norfolk |10,897 |732 |0 |30.9 |2.1 |0.0 |11,021 |1,054 |38 |31.1 |3.0 |0.1
North Yorkshire |11,147 |1,875 |0 |30.3 |5.1 |0.0 |12,654 |1,932 |0 |33.2 |5.1 |0.0
Northamptonshire |11,478 |2,166 |131 |30.8 |5.8 |0.4 |12,649 |1,712 |219 |33.5 |4.5 |0.6
Northumberland |8,753 |1,760 |115 |35.8 |7.2 |0.5 |8,708 |2,342 |109 |35.2 |9.5 |0.4
Nottinghamshire |14,850 |1,929 |41 |27.5 |3.6 |0.1 |16,070 |1,998 |75 |29.5 |3.7 |0.2
Oxfordshire |11,737 |1,648 |38 |40.0 |5.6 |0.1 |11,258 |1,879 |54 |38.3 |6.4 |0.1
Shropshire |6,191 |928 |121 |28.7 |4.3 |0.6 |6,213 |1,431 |36 |30.0 |6.9 |0.2
Somerset |9,042 |1,725 |0 |36.1 |6.9 |0.0 |8,595 |2,152 |36 |34.5 |8.6 |0.1
Staffordshire |19,595 |5,625 |299 |33.0 |9.5 |0.5 |19,729 |6,299 |145 |33.1 |10.6 |0.2
Suffolk |13,155 |1,170 |36 |32.6 |2.9 |0.1 |13,159 |1,252 |0 |33.1 |3.2 |0.0
Surrey |10,936 |1,466 |0 |32.4 |4.3 |0.0 |11,774 |2,019 |0 |34.0 |5.8 |0.0
Warwickshire |5,853 |1,138 |74 |27.3 |5.3 |0.3 |6,694 |1,188 |0 |31.8 |5.7 |0.0
West Sussex |13,171 |2,540 |72 |38.4 |7.4 |0.2 |13,930 |2,550 |153 |40.1 |7.3 |0.4
Wiltshire |9,458 |917 |0 |32.4 |3.1 |0.0 |9,445 |1,400 |36 |32.9 |4.9 |0.1
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England |813,303 |153,903 |4,544 |33.0 |6.2 |0.2 |857,095 |168,050 |4,288 |34.2 |6.7 |0.2
LEA 1993 1994
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Corporation of London |0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
Camden |3,270 |253 |0 |37.6 |2.9 |0.0 |3,160 |316 |107 |36.7 |3.7 |1.2
Greenwich |5,621 |159 |0 |46.0 |1.3 |0.0 |5,355 |157 |36 |43.7 |1.3 |0.3
Hackney |2,761 |188 |0 |45.7 |3.1 |0.0 |2,411 |317 |39 |38.1 |5.0 |0.6
Hammersmith and Fulham |1,200 |886 |0 |22.1 |16.3 |0.0 |1,569 |668 |0 |30.8 |13.1 |0.0
Islington |2,802 |31 |0 |47.1 |0.5 |0.0 |2,887 |219 |0 |48.7 |3.7 |0.0
Kensington and Chelsea |696 |160 |0 |26.9 |6.2 |0.0 |382 |126 |0 |16.1 |5.3 |0.0
Lambeth |1,490 |63 |0 |26.5 |1.1 |0.0 |1,600 |31 |0 |28.3 |0.5 |0.0
Lewisham |4,177 |347 |0 |43.1 |3.6 |0.0 |3,947 |32 |0 |38.5 |0.3 |0.0
Southwark |2,998 |1,038 |0 |35.5 |12.3 |0.0 |3,678 |817 |0 |42.0 |9.3 |0.0
Tower Hamlets |3,744 |126 |0 |44.9 |1.5 |0.0 |4,045 |93 |0 |43.6 |1.0 |0.0
Wandsworth |2,734 |474 |165 |35.1 |6.1 |2.1 |3,349 |316 |0 |41.7 |3.9 |0.0
Westminster |2,160 |125 |0 |36.5 |2.1 |0.0 |2,138 |224 |0 |32.9 |3.4 |0.0
Barking and Dagenham |4,223 |409 |0 |47.6 |4.6 |0.0 |3,493 |435 |81 |40.8 |5.1 |0.9
Barnet |4,564 |1,327 |0 |27.0 |7.8 |0.0 |4,991 |1,015 |0 |29.9 |6.1 |0.0
Bexley |5,431 |1,266 |39 |43.6 |10.2 |0.3 |5,806 |1,428 |0 |44.5 |11.0 |0.0
Brent |3,222 |478 |0 |29.6 |4.4 |0.0 |4,512 |411 |0 |40.9 |3.7 |0.0
Bromley |5,630 |1,236 |0 |37.1 |8.1 |0.0 |6,378 |1,470 |42 |40.2 |9.3 |0.3
Croydon |3,792 |609 |38 |28.6 |4.6 |0.3 |4,518 |1,072 |0 |33.5 |8.0 |0.0
Ealing |2,797 |479 |51 |29.3 |5.0 |0.5 |4,342 |1,028 |0 |37.4 |8.9 |0.0
Enfield |4,597 |1,853 |144 |29.4 |11.9 |0.9 |5,200 |2,103 |72 |32.9 |13.3 |0.5
Haringey |2,716 |95 |0 |35.9 |1.3 |0.0 |2,283 |0 |0 |29.6 |0.0 |0.0
Harrow |2,566 |511 |36 |34.8 |6.9 |0.5 |3,038 |316 |41 |39.4 |4.1 |0.5
Havering |4,556 |1,197 |54 |33.4 |8.8 |0.4 |5,342 |1,382 |0 |38.2 |9.9 |0.0
Hillingdon |3,913 |1,137 |36 |31.9 |9.3 |0.3 |4,922 |1,039 |0 |38.7 |8.2 |0.0
Hounslow |4,737 |1,419 |110 |39.2 |11.8 |0.9 |4,632 |1,361 |38 |36.8 |10.8 |0.3
Kingston upon Thames |1,863 |873 |0 |26.8 |12.6 |0.0 |2,000 |571 |0 |29.2 |8.3 |0.0
Merton |2,756 |410 |0 |41.7 |6.2 |0.0 |1,949 |350 |36 |30.2 |5.4 |0.6
Newham |6,020 |252 |0 |51.5 |2.2 |0.0 |7,572 |501 |0 |59.7 |3.9 |0.0
Redbridge |4,652 |1,165 |0 |36.8 |9.2 |0.0 |4,711 |1,298 |0 |34.1 |9.4 |0.0
Richmond upon Thames |2,773 |284 |0 |43.0 |4.4 |0.0 |2,235 |727 |0 |32.5 |10.6 |0.0
Sutton |3,589 |933 |0 |37.4 |9.7 |0.0 |4,149 |1,124 |0 |39.8 |10.8 |0.0
Waltham Forest |3,312 |448 |0 |33.6 |4.5 |0.0 |4,328 |563 |0 |42.9 |5.6 |0.0
Birmingham |19,629 |7,828 |190 |34.0 |13.6 |0.3 |21,409 |7,849 |36 |36.3 |13.3 |0.1
Coventry |6,668 |1,045 |0 |42.1 |6.6 |0.0 |7,751 |1,321 |0 |47.2 |8.0 |0.0
Dudley |5,594 |500 |78 |35.7 |3.2 |0.5 |6,514 |728 |0 |39.0 |4.4 |0.0
Sandwell |4,832 |765 |0 |28.8 |4.6 |0.0 |5,633 |1,077 |0 |33.1 |6.3 |0.0
Solihull |3,980 |1,199 |0 |32.5 |9.8 |0.0 |4,088 |1,369 |0 |32.7 |11.0 |0.0
Walsall |4,560 |1,103 |38 |27.6 |6.7 |0.2 |5,108 |1,657 |38 |29.4 |9.5 |0.2
Wolverhampton |3,399 |799 |74 |26.8 |6.3 |0.6 |4,071 |635 |88 |30.7 |4.8 |0.7
Knowsley |3,082 |762 |36 |36.4 |9.0 |0.4 |2,702 |1,154 |0 |32.1 |13.7 |0.0
Liverpool |9,003 |1,917 |0 |34.0 |7.2 |0.0 |9,438 |1,632 |0 |34.4 |5.9 |0.0
St. Helens |3,410 |819 |36 |32.8 |7.9 |0.3 |3,303 |759 |37 |30.4 |7.0 |0.3
Sefton |5,722 |1,232 |302 |36.1 |7.8 |1.9 |5,754 |1,399 |0 |34.2 |8.3 |0.0
Wirral |5,117 |1,422 |39 |27.1 |7.5 |0.2 |6,111 |1,652 |0 |31.4 |8.5 |0.0
Bolton |4,123 |1,523 |91 |26.9 |9.9 |0.6 |5,547 |1,330 |0 |34.6 |8.3 |0.0
Bury |3,349 |1,243 |147 |36.3 |13.5 |1.6 |3,792 |1,368 |38 |38.3 |13.8 |0.4
Manchester |7,104 |1,196 |72 |36.2 |6.1 |0.4 |7,643 |1,504 |0 |37.6 |7.4 |0.0
Oldham |5,886 |854 |176 |41.8 |6.1 |1.2 |5,947 |1,258 |0 |40.6 |8.6 |0.0
Rochdale |4,986 |643 |0 |43.3 |5.6 |0.0 |4,717 |1,146 |0 |40.5 |9.8 |0.0
Salford |2,983 |221 |0 |28.4 |2.1 |0.0 |3,487 |412 |0 |31.0 |3.7 |0.0
Stockport |4,530 |1,011 |40 |34.0 |7.6 |0.3 |5,489 |980 |36 |36.2 |6.5 |0.2
Tameside |5,201 |641 |0 |43.6 |5.4 |0.0 |5,444 |1,360 |0 |42.2 |10.5 |0.0
Trafford |3,921 |753 |0 |36.2 |7.0 |0.0 |4,573 |784 |0 |39.6 |6.8 |0.0
Wigan |5,274 |1,031 |74 |30.2 |5.9 |0.4 |5,592 |727 |74 |32.3 |4.2 |0.4
Barnsley |4,574 |657 |41 |41.3 |5.9 |0.4 |4,997 |414 |0 |42.5 |3.5 |0.0
Doncaster |5,864 |885 |0 |30.3 |4.6 |0.0 |7,345 |924 |0 |36.2 |4.6 |0.0
Rotherham |4,986 |416 |0 |33.5 |2.8 |0.0 |6,111 |358 |0 |38.0 |2.2 |0.0
Sheffield |8,947 |1,055 |72 |38.0 |4.5 |0.3 |10,955 |1,465 |36 |43.8 |5.9 |0.1
Bradford |14,152 |4,033 |130 |36.6 |10.4 |0.3 |15,283 |3,711 |38 |38.3 |9.3 |0.1
Calderdale |3,941 |1,293 |0 |34.6 |11.3 |0.0 |4,227 |720 |0 |35.2 |6.0 |0.0
Kirklees |8,648 |761 |41 |38.8 |3.4 |0.2 |9,065 |801 |0 |40.7 |3.6 |0.0
Leeds |13,376 |2,529 |36 |33.6 |6.3 |0.1 |12,455 |3,481 |255 |31.8 |8.9 |0.7
Wakefield |6,025 |955 |0 |32.1 |5.1 |0.0 |6,039 |2,099 |0 |33.2 |11.5 |0.0
Gateshead |3,429 |695 |0 |32.9 |6.7 |0.0 |3,612 |880 |0 |35.3 |8.6 |0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne |4,628 |982 |37 |30.6 |6.5 |0.2 |5,091 |1,214 |0 |33.3 |7.9 |0.0
North Tyneside |5,317 |660 |190 |44.9 |5.6 |1.6 |5,711 |932 |0 |43.7 |7.1 |0.0
South Tyneside |3,234 |949 |0 |37.8 |11.1 |0.0 |2,991 |280 |0 |35.9 |3.4 |0.0
Sunderland |6,140 |1,054 |37 |35.8 |6.1 |0.2 |6,482 |1,081 |0 |35.2 |5.9 |0.0
Isles of Scilly |27 |0 |0 |41.5 |0.0 |0.0 |26 |0 |0 |54.2 |0.0 |0.0
Avon |18,763 |2,947 |292 |38.7 |6.1 |0.6 |20,999 |3,108 |119 |41.5 |6.1 |0.2
Bedfordshire |15,658 |1,349 |110 |41.0 |3.5 |0.3 |16,343 |1,867 |138 |41.5 |4.7 |0.4
Berkshire |12,710 |4,344 |124 |30.2 |10.3 |0.3 |13,718 |3,780 |0 |31.8 |8.8 |0.0
Buckinghamshire |11,051 |2,493 |36 |36.7 |8.3 |0.1 |12,334 |2,724 |89 |38.4 |8.5 |0.3
Cambridgeshire |14,096 |3,275 |37 |40.6 |9.4 |0.1 |14,819 |3,403 |73 |41.3 |9.5 |0.2
Cheshire |20,875 |6,916 |220 |35.6 |11.8 |0.4 |19,581 |7,743 |110 |33.2 |13.1 |0.2
Cleveland |9,561 |821 |0 |28.8 |2.5 |0.0 |12,717 |1,152 |0 |36.4 |3.3 |0.0
Cornwall |10,676 |2,232 |216 |39.8 |8.3 |0.8 |10,867 |3,183 |0 |40.1 |11.7 |0.0
Cumbria |8,577 |1,943 |0 |30.9 |7.0 |0.0 |9,991 |2,356 |0 |34.8 |8.2 |0.0
Derbyshire |15,206 |2,521 |109 |31.1 |5.1 |0.2 |18,218 |3,557 |36 |35.8 |7.0 |0.1
Devon |18,919 |4,441 |333 |36.7 |8.6 |0.6 |19,071 |4,226 |88 |35.7 |7.9 |0.2
Dorset |13,268 |3,156 |75 |36.8 |8.7 |0.2 |14,204 |3,730 |117 |37.2 |9.8 |0.3
Durham |13,310 |2,896 |37 |40.4 |8.8 |0.1 |13,450 |2,621 |0 |40.4 |7.9 |0.0
East Sussex |11,000 |1,504 |99 |38.0 |5.2 |0.3 |12,367 |1,497 |0 |39.6 |4.8 |0.0
Essex |33,681 |6,797 |327 |39.2 |7.9 |0.4 |34,679 |8,337 |44 |38.9 |9.3 |0.0
Gloucestershire |10,948 |2,839 |0 |37.2 |9.7 |0.0 |11,715 |4,145 |38 |38.1 |13.5 |0.1
Hampshire |26,849 |3,988 |78 |37.7 |5.6 |0.1 |28,501 |4,630 |125 |37.5 |6.1 |0.2
Hereford and Worcester |15,990 |4,501 |193 |36.7 |10.3 |0.4 |16,571 |4,741 |37 |37.1 |10.6 |0.1
Hertfordshire |19,846 |5,867 |43 |33.2 |9.8 |0.1 |20,384 |5,803 |0 |33.4 |9.5 |0.0
Humberside |19,411 |2,705 |73 |37.7 |5.3 |0.1 |21,398 |5,179 |125 |40.2 |9.7 |0.2
Isle of Wight |3,628 |345 |0 |39.9 |3.8 |0.0 |3,390 |1,044 |0 |38.3 |11.8 |0.0
Kent |32,475 |6,473 |252 |35.8 |7.1 |0.3 |32,388 |6,787 |109 |34.5 |7.2 |0.1
Lancashire |23,750 |7,384 |579 |31.0 |9.6 |0.8 |25,208 |8,550 |151 |31.7 |10.8 |0.2
Leicestershire |18,840 |1,744 |73 |36.5 |3.4 |0.1 |19,152 |2,809 |0 |36.2 |5.3 |0.0
Lincolnshire |10,592 |2,225 |0 |31.5 |6.6 |0.0 |11,854 |1,684 |0 |33.9 |4.8 |0.0
Norfolk |11,316 |1,172 |0 |31.3 |3.2 |0.0 |11,725 |910 |0 |31.6 |2.5 |0.0
North Yorkshire |12,488 |2,487 |76 |31.9 |6.4 |0.2 |14,655 |2,779 |113 |36.5 |6.9 |0.3
Northamptonshire |13,526 |1,366 |41 |35.0 |3.5 |0.1 |12,985 |1,173 |37 |32.9 |3.0 |0.1
Northumberland |10,319 |2,931 |100 |39.0 |11.1 |0.4 |10,199 |2,588 |0 |38.6 |9.8 |0.0
Nottinghamshire |19,140 |1,934 |149 |34.3 |3.5 |0.3 |19,520 |2,081 |0 |34.1 |3.6 |0.0
Oxfordshire |12,364 |1,993 |205 |40.6 |6.5 |0.7 |11,850 |1,762 |37 |36.6 |5.4 |0.1
Shropshire |7,227 |1,267 |40 |33.8 |5.9 |0.2 |7,876 |1,466 |36 |34.6 |6.4 |0.2
Somerset |9,960 |1,759 |37 |39.4 |7.0 |0.1 |10,586 |2,194 |36 |40.0 |8.3 |0.1
Staffordshire |22,977 |7,901 |252 |36.8 |12.6 |0.4 |24,458 |10,235 |180 |37.6 |15.8 |0.3
Suffolk |13,962 |1,133 |115 |34.5 |2.8 |0.3 |12,400 |699 |0 |29.9 |1.7 |0.0
Surrey |13,401 |2,403 |0 |37.5 |6.7 |0.0 |15,892 |3,392 |0 |38.4 |8.2 |0.0
Warwickshire |7,031 |1,133 |90 |31.6 |5.1 |0.4 |6,452 |724 |0 |28.7 |3.2 |0.0
West Sussex |15,197 |2,842 |109 |42.3 |7.9 |0.3 |14,336 |2,481 |0 |38.7 |6.7 |0.0
Wiltshire |10,871 |1,715 |37 |35.7 |5.6 |0.1 |11,026 |2,590 |0 |35.5 |8.3 |0.0
|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------
England |916,462 |183,404 |7,207 |35.6 |7.1 |0.3 |973,304 |205,701 |3,006 |36.5 |7.7 |0.1
Single Regeneration Budget
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what adjustment is proposed to the total standard spending to take account of any transfer of funding for education functions from local authorities to the single regeneration budget in the 1995 96 financial year; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Robin Squire: A total of £47.326 million was transferred from education's share of total standard spending to the single regeneration budget in 1995 96. The single regeneration budget is designed, through education and other services, to encourage local regeneration and foster partnerships between local groups.
General National Vocational Qualifications
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what adjustment is proposed to the total spending to take account of the transfer of funding of GNVQs from local authorities to central Government in the 1995 96 financial year; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Boswell: We propose to transfer £0.25 million from local authority finance in 1995 96 for the funding of GNVQs. This transfer will be reflected in the cost to schools of candidates registered for GNVQs in 1995 96. The Government have announced that they will be providing £23 million new money over three years to support vocational education. Details of the package will be announced shortly.
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Expenditure Plans
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make a statement on the relationship between the planned provision for Ofsted for 1995 96 as set out in her answer of 29 November, Official Report, column 680, and in table 1 of the Department for Education and Office of Standards in Education departmental report for 1994 95 to 1996 97; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Forth: Planned provision for Ofsted of £98 million in 1995 96, reflects the latest estimate of the volume of primary and special school inspections next year.
The plans continue to allow for sufficient funding for a full programme of inspections to be carried out as required by legislation. Her Majesty's chief inspector announced on 8 December a range of measures designed to stimulate the market for inspections.
School Inspections
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the cost of schools inspection in (a) 1992 and (b) 1994 in constant prices.
Mr. Forth: In 1992 93 the DFE's provision for HMI and Ofsted was £30.5 million. It is not possible to disaggregate overall school inspection costs within this total. Local authorities spent some £149 million on their school inspection and advisory services. In 1994 95, Ofsted's planned expenditure is £67 million; of this, some 55 per cent. is for the purchase of school inspections. Details of the estimated outturn
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expenditure by local authorities on school inspections and advisory services for 1994 95 are not yet available.Oliver Wiley
Sir Anthony Grant: To ask the Secretary of State for Education when she expects the appeal on behalf of Oliver Wiley under section 8(6) of the Education Act 1981 for special educational provision, lodged in February, to be determined.
Mr. Forth: I expect that a decision will be made early in the new year. I shall, of course, inform my hon. Friend of the outcome.
Debt Charge Reimbursement Scheme
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what adjustment is proposed to the total standard spending to take account of the transfer of funding, due to the recalculation of the debt charge reimbursement scheme from local authorities to the Further Education Funding Council for the 1995 96 financial year; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Boswell: We propose to transfer £1.084 million into local authority finance in 1995 96 in respect of the debt charge reimbursement scheme. This reflects the fact that the amount of money paid by the Further Education Funding Council--FEFC--under the scheme is lower than had been assumed when the original transfer of funds from local authorities to the FEFC was calculated.
Ofsted
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what adjustments were made to the total standard spending to take account of the transfer of functions from local authorities to the Office for Standards in Education in each financial year since 1992 93; (2) what adjustment is proposed to the total standard spending to take account of any transfer functions for local authorities to the Office for Standards in Education in the 1995 96 financial year; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Forth: The amounts transferred from local authority finance to Ofsted were £19 million in 1993 94 and a further £37 million in 1994 95. There are no proposals for further transfers in 1995 96. The phased transfer reflects the gradual transfer of functions from local authorities to Ofsted.
Cash Limits
Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what changes she plans to cash limits on votes within her responsibility for 1994 95.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard: The cash limit for class X, vote 1, schools, research and miscellaneous services will be reduced by £3.5 million from £803,796,000 to £800,296,000. The reduction will be used to offset an increase in the non-voted cash limit DFE-LACAP for local authority capital for school building projects. The local authority capital cash limit DFE-LACAP will therefore be increased by £3.5 million from £39,398,000 to £42,898,000.
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Postgraduate Students
Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what changes she intends to make to her Department's scheme of support for postgraduate students for the academic year 1995 96.
Mr. Boswell: Under the Department's postgraduate bursary support scheme, more than 750 students received support in 1994 95. My right hon. Friend has decided, in the light of other demands and priorities, to reduce the funding available for the scheme by 10 per cent. from 1995 96. The funding reduction will not affect students already on course.
The maximum level of fees payable through the scheme will be £2,430 for 1995 96. This will preserve the value of the postgraduate fee in real terms.
HEALTH
Health Authority Staff
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff have been employed, by category, by each family health services authority in each of the last five years.
Mr. Malone: The available information will be placed in the Library. Family health services authorities were created in September 1990. Since 1990 it has not been possible to identify the numbers and categories of staff employed by individual authorities.
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff have been employed, by category, by each regional health authority in each of the last five years.
Mr. Malone: The information available will be placed in the Library. It is not possible to identify the numbers of medical and dental staff employed by individual authorities nor has it been possible since 1990 to identify the numbers and categories of non-medical staff by individual authority.
Treatment Costs
Mrs. Beckett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the average cost of (a) treating a patient on the hospital waiting list, (b) providing an out-patient appointment, (c) treating a patient in an emergency in casualty, (d) treating an NHS patient in a private hospital under the last waiting list initiative, (e) a modern health centre suitable for general practitioners and their staff, (f) a heart bypass operation, (g) a hip replacement operation, (h) a cataract removal operation and (i) treating an asthma attack sufferer.
Mr. Sackville: Information on the treatment costs of elective hospital admissions is not separately available. The average cost for all acute in-patient and day case episodes in 1992 93--the latest year for which information is available--was about £1,004, and for an out- patient attendance £59.
The available expenditure information does not distinguish patients treated in an emergency in accident and emergency departments from those returning for routine follow-up appointments.
Five hundred and twelve waiting list patients were treated in private facilities as part of the additional activity purchased in February and March 1994 under the last
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stage of the central waiting times fund, at an average cost of £1, 552 each. For the details I refer the right hon. Member to the reply the then Minister for Health, my right hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Dr. Mawhinney), gave the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr Blunkett) on 14 June at columns 387-88 . The treatments purchased included complex and costly procedures resulting in a relatively high average cost per case.The provision of premises is a matter for general practitioners and the costs of providing them are not available centrally.
The information requested for the average cost of heart bypass, hip replacement and cataract removal operations, and of treating asthma attack sufferers, is not available centrally.
Alcoholism
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the effect of the implementation of proposals in the recent Green Paper "Tackling Drugs Together", on the levels of alcoholism.
Mr. Bowis: "Tackling Drugs Together" sets out the Government's strategy for combating illegal drug use, not alcoholism.
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health to what use the funds made available to the Health Education Authority for its alcohol programme have been put; and what is to become of the various projects funded by this money following the Health Education Authority's announcement that it intends to discontinue the programme.
Mr. Bowis: The Health Education Authority has not discontinued its alcohol work. Its budget for 1994 95 includes £1,159,000 for this work. This has financed the Drinkwise campaign, workplace activities, dissemination of the sensible drinking message, support for health authorities' purchasing functions and other work.
Obesity
Mr. Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of (a) men and (b) women in each regional health authority were obese in 1986 87 and in each year since then for which figures are available.
Mr. Sackville: The data are not available centrally in the form requested.
However, information at national level has been published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. Figures derived from: (i) the "Dietary and Nutritional Survey of British Adults", published in "Health of the Nation: One Year On", show that in England in 1986 87, 7 per cent. of men and 12 per cent. of women aged between 16 and 64 were obese;
(ii) the "Health Survey for England for 1992", using data for 1991 and 1992 combined, show that in England, 13 per cent. of men and 15 per cent. of women aged between 16 and 64 were obese.
Information at below national level, in the format requested, will be available when data are published in 1995 in the "Health Survey for England for 1993".
Copies of these publications are available in the Library.
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Hepatitis C Virus
Mr. Gunnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many HCV tests are given annually by the NHS.
Mr. Sackville: The number of tests for hepatitis C virus conducted by the national health service for diagnostic purposes is not available centrally.
Mr. Gunnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what additional costs will be incurred on HCV testing following the High Court decision on HCV ownership.
Mr. Dowd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the estimated cost to the national health service of being unable to buy hepatitis C virus testing kits from Murex Diagnostics.
Mr. Sackville: The cost effects on HCV testing should be minimal, as the costs of the kits remaining on the market are comparable to those which are now withdrawn.
Mr. Gunnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what consideration she has given to the High Court decision that the hepatitis C virus is owned by an American company.
Mr. Sackville: The High Court decision related to patent rights for hepatitis C virus test kits. All current manufacturers of such test kits are in overseas ownership. We are satisfied that there will continue to be an adequate supply of test kits to the United Kingdom, and that continuing competition will ensure that these kits are supplied on a value-for-money basis.
Mr. Gunnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what new arrangements will be needed for HCV testing following the High Court decision on HCV ownership.
Mr. Dowd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what arrangements have been made to obtain hepatitis C virus kits since Murex Diagnostics has been prevented from doing so.
Mr. Sackville: In some cases centres will need to establish a different source of supply for HCV test kits following the High Court decision on patent rights for such kits. Two existing kits will no longer be available, but there will continue to be an adequate supply of good quality HCV test kits from three manufacturers which will still be competing for the United Kingdom market.
Mr. Dowd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the names of the companies which supplied hepatitis C virus testing kits before Murex Diagnostics was prevented from doing so; and what are the names of those which have supplied them since.
Mr. Sackville: Ortho Diagnostic Systems Ltd., Abbot Laboratories Ltd., Organon Teknika Ltd., and Murex Diagnostics previously supplied such test kits to the United Kingdom market until the recent High Court decision relating to patent rights. Ortho and Abbott continue to supply, and Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur Ltd. has recently entered the market, also under licence.
Community Health Councils
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which health regions advertise community health council posts externally only after internal advertising among existing health region staff has failed to result in an appointment; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Malone: It is a matter for the regional health authorities how they deal with community health council
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vacancies as they arise. The hon. Member may wish to contact the chairmen of the regional health authorities for further information.Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidelines she has issued to health regions about the practice of advertising posts in community health councils externally only after internal advertisement among regional health authority staff has failed to result in an appointment.
Mr. Malone: No guidance of this nature has been issued to regions.
Social Services
Mr. Thurnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list for each local authority in Greater Manchester and Lancashire, their use of independent organisations to carry out social services work, in order of the proportion of work placed outside the local authority's own social services department.
Mr. Bowis: Information is not collected centrally about the use of independent organisations by social services authorities.
Health Guidance
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she consulted the Audit Commission before health guidance TEL (94) (2) was issued.
Mr. Malone: No. The Audit Commission has responsibility for the external audit of the national health service, and it is not its role to set policy or manage the NHS.
NHS Trusts
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 9 December, Official Report , column 395 , how many individuals received termination payments from each of the NHS trusts listed.
Mr. Malone: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Darlington (Mr. Milburn) on 19 December. Official Report, columns 985 86.
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the salary plus bonus payments for the chief executive of each NHS trust.
Mr. Malone: Remuneration details of chief executives are published locally in trusts' annual accounts.
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 9 December, Official Report , columns 394 95 , what reasons were given by each NHS trust for the termination of employment in each case.
Mr. Malone: These are matters for individual trusts which have always been and remain free to determine the terms of their staffs' employment contracts.
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the policy of her Department as to cancelled operations in NHS trust run hospitals.
Mr. Sackville: The national health service undertakes over 3.5 million operations every year, the vast majority on time. Our aim is to continue to reduce the number of occasions where operations have to be cancelled. We have set a national patients charter standard so that where an operation is unavoidably cancelled on the day it is due to
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take place, the patient will be offered a new date within one month of the cancellation.Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the limitations on NHS trust chairmen and non-executive directors seeking posts or contracts with health authorities or trusts.
Mr. Malone: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on 30 November at column 787.
Mr. Soley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) of 9 December 1994, Official Report, column 395, how many termination payments have been made by NHS trusts to employees below the rank of general and senior managers; and what is the total amount for each trust to date.
Mr. Malone: This information is not available centrally.
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many employees of NHS trusts have been (a) dismissed, (b) made redundant, (c) given early retirement and (d) had their contracts revoked with compensation in excess of (i) the NHS redundancy provisions, (ii) £100,000 gross and (iii) £250,000 gross; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Malone: This information is not available centrally.
Pharmacists (Prescription Fraud)
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many pharmacists have been discovered by her Department to have engaged in the practice of fraudulently collecting a prescription fee from a customer and ticking the exempt box on the prescription form during the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Malone: This information is not available centrally.
Nursing Statistics
Mr. Barry Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many (a) home helps and (b) district nurses per 1,000 people over the age of 65 years there are in the United Kingdom; and if she will publish comparative data for other European countries;
(2) how many (a) home helps (b)
district nurses per 1,000 people over the age of 65 there are; and what are the equivalent figures for other European countries.
Mr. Bowis: For England, the latest available information is for 30 September 1993 and is shown in the table:
|Number per 1,000
------------------------------------------------------
Home helps<1> |6.6
District nurses |1.2
Note:
<1> Whole-time equivalent numbers of home helps
directly employed by social services departments.
Source:
The home help figures are derived from the annual
Department of Health census of local authority social
services staff.
The district nurses figures are derived from the
Department's non-medical work force census.
The Population data used are the Office of Population
Censuses and Surveys mid-year 1993 England figures.
Information relating to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are matters for my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales and for Scotland and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland respectively. The Department does not hold comparable information about other European countries.
Prescriptions
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many items on NHS prescriptions were dispensed in 1993;
(2) how many and what percentage of NHS patients had to pay the full cost of their prescriptions in the latest year for which figures are available;
(3) how many items on NHS prescriptions dispensed in 1993 cost less than the charge for the prescription.
Mr. Malone: In 1993, some 445.43 million prescription items were dispensed by community pharmacists, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors or personally administered to patients by prescribing doctors in England, of which an estimated 222.825 million had a total cost of less than the prescription charge. Figures for the number of patients who paid prescription charges are not available.
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the criteria that enable NHS patients to get their prescriptions free of charge.
Mr. Malone: The categories of patient exempt from, or entitled to remission of charges for prescribed drugs and appliances dispensed by community pharmacists, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors are shown in the table. Drugs and appliances personally administered or applied to patients by general medical practitioners and prescribing nurses, supplied to hospital in-patients and prescribed for contraceptive purposes or for the treatment of venereal disease are free. Patients exempt from, or entitled to remission of, charges for prescribed drugs and appliances dispensed by community pharmacists, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors: EXEMPT
Children under 16;
Young people under 19 in full-time education;
Men aged 65 and over
Women aged 60 and over
Pregnant women and women who have had a baby in the last 12 months;
Recipients of war service disablement pensions whose treatment is for their pensionable disability;
People with one of the following medical conditions;
Permanent fistula (including caecostomy, colostomy, laryngostomy, ileostomy or urostomy) requiring continuous surgical dressings or an appliance;
Forms of hypoadrenalism (including Addison's disease) for which specific substitution therapy is essential;
Diabetes insipidus and other forms of hypopituitarism;
Diabetes Mellitus except where treatment is by diet alone; Hypoparathyroidism;
Myasthenia gravis;
Myxoedema, or other conditions where supplemental thyroid hormone is necessary;
Epilepsy requiring continuous anti-convulsive therapy;
A continuing physical disability which prevents the patient from leaving home except with the help of another person.
CHARGE REMISSION
Recipients of income support and their partners;
Recipients of family credit and their partners;
Holders of AG2 certificates for full help under the NHS low income scheme and their partners
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