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Euro

Mr. Wilkinson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what expenditure he has authorised to date by the Royal Mint for preparations to produce coins and banknotes denominated in euros. [16090]

Mrs. Angela Knight: I refer my hon. Friend to the answers that my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor gave him on 21 February 1996, Official Report, column 156.

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Statistics (Gender Breakdown)

Ms Jowell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps the Department is taking to collect statistics broken down by gender where relevant. [17693]

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Mrs. Gillan: Gender is a key characteristic of many of the statistics we collect in the Department.

Capital Spending

Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what has been the capital spending by each local education authority in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what have been the Government capital allocations in each of those years and in all subsequent years for which allocations have been made. [19263]

Mrs. Gillan: Table A gives capital spending by local education authorities for the years 1990-91 to 1994-95 inclusive.

Government capital allocations over the years 1990-91 to 1996-97 inclusive and are given in table B.

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Table A: Capital expenditure by LEAs 1990-91 to 1994-95£000s

	1990-91	1991-92	1992-93	1993-94	1994-95
	Total expenditure	Total expenditure	Total expenditure	Total expenditure	Total expenditure (provisional)
Corporation of London	18,181	0	25	2	2,779
Camden	1,256	2,819	1,542	409	1,353
Greenwich	(5)--	1,501	1,122	402	2,182
Hackney	1,492	1,203	1,212	1,535	2,585
Hammersmith and Fulham	2,169	2,071	4,738	3,398	2,304
Islington	3,872	1,947	598	851	1,283
Kensington and Chelsea	5,046	2,798	2,023	2,412	2,339
Lambeth	894	1,587	2,144	1,789	2,071
Lewisham	1,522	1,534	757	1,967	4,795
Southwark	(5)--	2,159	3,148	3,906	4,407
Tower Hamlets	19,602	17,103	12,918	12,068	11,718
Wandsworth	3,818	4,306	5,835	6,114	7,694
City of Westminster	1,301	1,848	1,298	1,025	3,016
Barking and Dagenham	2,073	7,249	6,604	3,013	5,561
Barnet	5,255	2,300	2,734	5,278	5,572
Bexley	2,666	2,365	3,206	5,606	5,411
Brent	6,447	3,727	2,496	1,639	1,321
Bromley	5,527	7,215	6,189	6,311	13,453
Croydon	15,764	8,439	4,532	3,772	7,045
Ealing	2,816	1,926	3,524	4,561	5,054
Enfield	20,457	16,146	2,990	2,356	2,131
Haringey	1,339	2,047	693	2,801	2,615
Harrow	3,057	3,538	5,442	5,099	5,741
Havering	7,618	4,848	2,739	1,024	1,631
Hillingdon	4,958	1,717	5,513	9,195	4,842
Hounslow	5,300	5,304	7,311	5,877	3,528
Kingston upon Thames	4,144	4,213	1,257	1,406	3,117
Merton	10,861	3,955	3,468	3,538	4,791
Newham	7,128	10,662	6,751	1,818	3,087
Redbridge	5,842	3,264	5,370	3,413	5,337
Richmond upon Thames	3,010	2,946	2,713	2,554	2,898
Sutton	7,536	7,292	3,907	3,426	4,353
Waltham Forest	6,973	3,441	5,869	7,264	3,996
Birmingham	14,121	14,507	12,690	12,853	16,647
Coventry	11,415	6,877	5,388	3,042	3,052
Dudley	4,640	6,667	10,935	4,047	4,746
Sandwell	4,352	2,740	2,190	5,581	5,625
Solihull	3,275	3,389	2,644	3,481	3,497
Walsall	2,957	2,447	2,508	1,528	1,791
Wolverhampton	2,189	2,631	3,224	3,304	2,298
Knowsley	2,885	1,297	2,548	2,496	2,069
Liverpool	3,371	2,477	2,367	3,457	6,277
St. Helens	4,530	7,084	2,168	1,698	1,708
Sefton	4,854	3,636	2,294	2,996	1,199
Wirral	4,135	4,630	2,718	1,294	1,165
Bolton	3,683	1,530	2,037	1,642	1,777
Bury	1,324	1,085	1,047	618	1,491
Manchester	(5)--	6,907	9,807	9,171	12,593
Oldham	4,701	10,989	8,573	4,278	6,148
Rochdale	4,640	7,362	9,114	2,068	3,129
Salford	4,868	3,651	2,096	3,365	3,726
Stockport	3,123	2,552	2,033	1,933	1,694
Tameside	2,250	1,949	1,910	1,231	2,549
Trafford	11,207	5,333	5,572	5,515	4,008
Wigan	3,980	5,322	3,813	1,323	1,044
Barnsley	2,011	1,910	4,133	2,704	1,662
Doncaster	478	410	794	1,580	5,800
Rotherham	1,976	1,331	2,401	1,855	486
Sheffield	(5)--	6,302	7,022	8,188	8,181
Bradford	10,019	12,505	12,102	9,380	10,612
Calderdale	2,149	2,153	2,227	1,856	1,999
Kirklees	4,779	4,463	7,514	9,087	6,683
Leeds	10,903	20,429	25,556	21,537	9,799
Wakefield	(5)--	3,299	5,609	11,768	11,471
Gateshead	4,384	5,078	3,992	1,837	1,577
Newcastle upon Tyne	2,520	3,387	2,490	3,280	6,037
North Tyneside	2,122	1,963	2,331	3,603	4,854
South Tyneside	4,650	4,584	1,911	1,849	1,014
Sunderland	4,229	4,223	5,855	5,553	0
Isles of Scilly	212	50	117	35	22
Avon	10,539	15,323	14,077	8,979	8,069
Bedfordshire	3,219	1,872	5,880	5,531	5,207
Berkshire	10,662	7,357	16,234	17,656	17,079
Buckinghamshire	13,941	13,312	11,931	9,766	12,078
Cambridgeshire	16,232	22,713	23,230	8,596	10,921
Cheshire	10,778	16,465	21,908	19,022	21,310
Cleveland	6,643	4,954	4,786	4,103	5,715
Cornwall	12,333	11,435	14,611	10,787	7,989
Cumbria	8,306	10,100	12,325	12,859	10,016
Derbyshire	16,357	14,459	15,921	10,512	11,057
Devon	26,053	32,599	26,643	25,308	23,282
Dorset	8,900	13,195	14,622	11,837	20,180
Durham	5,822	7,159	8,218	6,863	6,684
East Sussex	13,937	17,275	18,156	16,494	17,832
Essex	19,713	23,992	19,844	17,971	23,824
Gloucestershire	11,956	10,569	7,331	9,338	10,775
Hampshire	33,101	25,013	23,715	24,508	34,322
Hereford and Worcester	11,919	10,656	5,493	7,807	8,427
Hertfordshire	14,040	14,091	13,432	11,702	16,845
Humberside	10,291	8,578	9,379	7,123	5,307
Isle of Wight	2,712	3,299	2,184	2,597	4,044
Kent	18,956	24,964	25,898	23,190	28,825
Lancashire	20,675	20,255	24,096	25,019	27,548
Leicestershire	13,282	12,543	12,373	10,344	10,374
Lincolnshire	11,667	18,463	19,485	15,641	16,346
Norfolk	6,936	6,152	5,707	7,490	6,724
North Yorkshire	5,586	10,844	8,170	7,070	4,715
Northamptonshire	4,956	3,966	3,250	8,438	5,701
Northumberland	2,969	5,460	5,338	2,968	2,503
Nottinghamshire	6,294	6,318	7,772	5,767	5,966
Oxfordshire	11,583	3,524	10,784	11,824	18,543
Shropshire	6,561	7,384	4,256	4,856	7,623
Somerset	7,777	5,770	11,132	10,412	8,466
Staffordshire	8,949	10,160	10,792	6,917	9,536
Suffolk	12,377	11,109	12,328	11,256	10,900
Surrey	17,896	17,366	15,917	22,179	22,566
Warwickshire	5,618	3,602	4,200	4,726	6,485
West Sussex	17,028	14,753	13,845	21,437	21,431
Wiltshire	9,483	10,009	9,949	6,403	5,626
Total	812,749(6)	797,677	797,610	732,158	799,281

(5) LEA did not submit information.

(6) Totals have been grossed to compensate for non-returns.

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Table B: Local authority capital allocations: 1996-97£ million

	Education credit approvals	Receipts taken into account	Allocation for specialist schools(7)	Announced total education(8)
1990-91(9)	426.10	49.00	--	475.10
1991-92(9)	492.00	46.00	--	538.00
1992-93(9)	559.70	36.00	--	595.70
1993-94	381.50	62.00	--	443.50
1994-95	379.20	31.00	--	410.20
1995-96	395.90	31.00	2.10	429.00
1996-97(10)	423.00	35.00	4.30	462.30

(7) Allocations for specialist schools are by way of supplementary credit approval. The 1996-97 allocations are yet to be made.

(8) Total of annual capital guidelines (ACGs) and supplementary credit approvals (SCAs).

(9) Includes allocations to the further education sector prior to the establishment of the Further Education Funding Council.

(10) Figures include a £42 million reserve for SCAs which will issue during 1996-97.

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