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Legal Services

Annabelle Ewing: To ask the Advocate-General with respect to which subject areas the Office of the Solicitor to the Advocate-General has provided legal services to the Department for Work and Pensions. [33418]

The Advocate-General [holding answer 4 February 2002]: The Office of the Solicitor to the Advocate- General provides legal services to the Department for Work and Pensions and its agencies (other than the Employment Service) in the following subject areas: social security; child support; pensions; and employment. A full range of legal services is provided including court and tribunal work, primary and subordinate legislation and general advisory work.

Office Budget

Annabelle Ewing: To ask the Advocate-General what is the budgetary provision for the total cost of her office in 2001–02. [33419]

The Advocate-General [holding answer 4 February 2002]: In my answer of 25 January 2002, Official Report, column 1127W on departmental costs I explained that the

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Office of the Advocate-General for Scotland forms part of the Scotland Office with the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland. Not all the costs of the Scotland Office can be separately allocated to each of these two offices and no separate budgetary provisions are made.

EDUCATION AND SKILLS

Learning and Skills Councils

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what was (a) the total bill for salaries and expenses for board members, (b) the administrative operating costs and (c) the total annual budget in the latest year for which figures are available for each of the learning and skills councils in England. [30196]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The administrative operating costs and the total annual budget for the latest year for which figures are available, for each of the learning and skills councils in England, are detailed in the table.

The amount of salary and expenses paid to LSC Board members is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council.

Learning and Skills Council Budget Data 2001–02

	LSC/National Office Directorate	Admin budget	Programme budget	Budget total
East Midlands	Derbyshire	2,961,207	84,199,461	87,160,668
East Midlands	Nottinghamshire	3,471,336	126,235,090	129,706,426
East Midlands	Lincolnshire and Rutland	2,000,523	43,099,739	45,100,262
East Midlands	Leicestershire	2,595,228	88,082,684	90,677,912
East Midlands	Northamptonshire	2,028,258	46,143,926	48,172,184
East of England	Norfolk	2,308,116	58,646,515	60,954,631
East of England	Cambridgeshire	2,669,927	55,396,126	58,066,053
East of England	Suffolk	1,853,759	45,350,782	47,204,541
East of England	Bedfordshire and Luton	2,072,032	47,448,103	49,520,135
East of England	Hertfordshire	2,389,925	69,363,760	71,753,685
East of England	Essex	3,526,304	125,324,915	128,851,219
Greater London	London North	2,849,098	114,039,787	116,888,885
Greater London	London West	4,212,485	125,480,762	129,693,247
Greater London	London Central	4,945,555	210,772,438	215,717,993
Greater London	London East	4,838,360	213,164,413	218,002,773
Greater London	London South	3,464,543	118,194,063	121,658,606
North East	Northumberland	1,603,832	18,299,048	19,902,880
North East	Tyne and Wear	4,658,853	137,312,786	141,971,639
North East	County Durham	2,261,677	46,739,421	49,001,098
North East	Tees Valley	3,015,845	98,659,567	101,675,412
North West	Cumbria	1,952,868	42,691,367	44,644,235
North West	Lancashire	3,931,820	166,715,753	170,647,573
North West	Greater Merseyside	4,417,319	172,348,608	176,765,927
North West	Greater Manchester	6,264,609	306,386,007	312,650,616
North West	Cheshire and Warrington	2,561,104	75,273,022	77,834,126
South East	Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire	3,368,112	94,250,521	97,618,633
South East	Berkshire	2,755,023	61,423,348	64,178,371
South East	Hampshire and Isle of Wight	4,309,889	180,221,626	184,531,515
South East	Surrey	2,886,200	78,874,210	81,760,410
South East	Sussex	3,410,021	116,510,117	119,920,138
South East	Kent and Medway	3,499,610	107,634,064	111,133,674
South West	Devon and Cornwall	3,769,338	144,983,848	148,753,186
South West	Somerset	1,755,420	54,263,188	56,018,608
South West	Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole	2,441,213	50,060,473	52,501,686
South West	West of England	3,119,672	86,833,647	89,953,319
South West	Wiltshire	2,120,452	58,677,976	60,798,428
South West	Gloucestershire	2,334,200	43,876,871	46,211,071
West Midlands	Shropshire	1,535,707	45,273,080	46,808,787
West Midlands	Staffordshire	2,687,697	101,759,898	104,447,595
West Midlands	Black Country	4,070,795	132,672,736	136,743,531
West Midlands	Birmingham and Solihull	4,159,367	176,594,243	180,753,610
West Midlands	Herefordshire and Worcestershire	2,586,116	64,093,095	66,679,211
West Midlands	Coventry and Warwickshire	2,625,394	92,396,130	95,021,524
Yorkshire and The Humber	North Yorkshire	2,402,925	63,883,458	66,286,383
Yorkshire and The Humber	West Yorkshire	5,736,359	190,682,080	196,418,439
Yorkshire and The Humber	South Yorkshire	4,674,720	133,142,449	137,817,169
Yorkshire and The Humber	Humberside	2,921,390	96,114,879	99,036,269
Sub-total		148,024,204	4,809,590,080	4,957,614,284
National	National Office	91,975,798	498,375,920	590,351,718
Total		240,000,002	5,307,966,000	5,547,966,002

Important notes: As at 31 January 2002

The Administration Budget is the latest negotiated position with DfES and includes £27 million transitional costs. The Programme Budget has been taken from version two of the budget data. Version three totals are not as yet broken down by individual LSC. The LSC has yet to complete a full financial year therefore budget data rather than actual expenditure has been provided.

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Primary Pupils (Expenditure)

Mr. Todd: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list for each local education authority ranked in order of total spend in 2000–01 the money spent per primary age pupil on their education (a) by the local education authority, (b) by central Government, allocated direct to schools, to local authorities and other agencies and (c) in total in (i) 1996–97 and (ii) 2000–01. [30622]

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Mr. Timms: The information requested is not collected in the way it has been asked for. Data collected from section 52 and RO1 returns do not distinguish between what local authorities spend and how grants provided by central Government are spent. The following table includes figures using data taken from Net Current Expenditure (after recharges) per pupil per LEA:

LEAs ranked by per pupil spend 1999–2000

	Pre-primary/primary
LEA name	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000
England	2,130	2,070	2,190	2,340
City of London	5,280	5,080	5,190	5,930
Isles of Scilly	3,160	3,190	3,160	4,140
Westminster	3,100	3,180	3,430	3,850
Kensington and Chelsea	3,450	3,510	3,510	3,720
Hackney	3,260	3,110	3,210	3,610
Lambeth	3,660	3,120	3,230	3,460
Camden	3,110	3,000	3,160	3,450
Tower Hamlets	3,190	3,160	3,250	3,380
Hammersmith and Fulham	2,950	2,950	2,950	3,370
Southwark	3,030	2,960	3,010	3,290
Islington	2,810	2,880	3,060	3,270
Greenwich	2,820	2,660	2,820	3,140
Wandsworth	2,620	2,680	2,790	3,110
Lewisham	2,900	2,880	2,940	3,030
Haringey	2,910	2,730	2,840	3,020
Waltham Forest	2,460	2,400	2,390	2,990
Birmingham	2,340	2,310	2,520	2,760
Brent	2,500	2,520	2,720	2,750
Hounslow	2,510	2,410	2,560	2,730
Harrow	2,580	2,440	2,460	2,710
Newham	2,330	2,180	2,320	2,690
Barking and Dagenham	2,450	2,350	2,510	2,590
Barnet	2,470	2,370	2,540	2,580
Ealing	2,450	2,380	2,470	2,580
Slough	—	—	2,260	2,560
Nottingham City	—	—	2,390	2,540
Merton	2,300	2,400	2,490	2,530
Sutton	2,280	2,200	2,310	2,530
Enfield	2,330	2,290	2,400	2,520
Croydon	2,370	2,250	2,340	2,500
City of Bristol	2,220	2,210	2,280	2,490
Rutland	—	2,240	2,420	2,470
Coventry	2,150	2,210	2,370	2,460
Gateshead	2,180	2,130	2,170	2,460
Portsmouth	—	2,180	2,290	2,460
Southampton	—	2,200	2,280	2,450
Sandwell	2,210	2,200	2,310	2,430
York	1,900	1,900	1,980	2,420
Windsor and Maidenhead	—	—	2,190	2,420
Blackburn	—	—	2,190	2,420
Luton	—	2,250	2,340	2,400
Newcastle upon Tyne	2,270	2,320	2,320	2,390
North East Lincolnshire	2,050	1,930	2,150	2,390
Isle of Wight	2,120	2,170	2,300	2,390
Bromley	2,060	2,010	2,210	2,380
Richmond upon Thames	2,330	2,290	2,330	2,380
Bath and North East Somerset	2,200	2,100	2,180	2,380
Kingston upon Thames	2,190	2,130	2,210	2,370
Wolverhampton	2,210	2,140	2,210	2,370
Oldham	2,080	2,040	2,170	2,370
Sheffield	2,020	1,970	2,060	2,370
Bradford	2,220	2,540	2,570	2,360
Stockton-on-Tees	1,930	1,880	2,080	2,360
Leicester	—	2,180	2,140	2,360
Suffolk	2,170	2,100	2,190	2,360
Knowsley	2,150	2,130	2,230	2,350
Liverpool	2,010	2,010	2,170	2,350
Thurrock	—	—	2,170	2,350
Cumbria	2,160	2,170	2,240	2,350
Barnsley	2,010	1,970	2,080	2,340
Leeds	2,140	2,000	2,180	2,340
North Tyneside	2,030	1,990	2,110	2,330
Durham	—	2,060	2,180	2,330
Halton	—	—	2,180	2,330
Hillingdon	2,360	2,180	2,270	2,320
Bolton	2,090	2,010	2,240	2,320
Manchester	2,170	2,100	2,210	2,320
Kirklees	2,100	2,000	2,160	2,320
Salford	2,040	1,970	2,020	2,310
Doncaster	2,140	2,190	2,160	2,310
Reading	—	—	2,110	2,310
Kent	—	—	2,110	2,310
Oxfordshire	2,030	2,000	2,150	2,310
Brighton and Hove	—	2,130	2,160	2,300
Cornwall	2,100	2,000	2,130	2,300
Bedfordshire	—	2,030	2,100	2,280
Stoke on Trent	—	1,930	2,130	2,280
Blackpool	—	—	1,970	2,280
Rotherham	1,940	1,860	2,010	2,270
Sunderland	1,990	1,960	2,110	2,270
City of Kingston-upon-Hull	2,060	1,990	2,180	2,270
East Sussex	—	1,940	2,050	2,270
Redbridge	2,150	2,090	2,130	2,260
Wirral	2,020	1,900	2,100	2,260
Plymouth	—	—	2,150	2,260
Nottinghamshire	—	—	2,190	2,260
Havering	2,060	2,000	2,100	2,250
St. Helens	2,050	2,030	2,160	2,250
Redcar and Cleveland	1,950	2,000	2,100	2,250
North Lincolnshire	2,240	2,120	2,220	2,250
Milton Keynes	—	1,970	2,080	2,250
Bracknell Forest	—	—	2,100	2,250
Rochester and Gillingham	—	—	2,090	2,250
Shropshire	—	—	2,120	2,250
Northumberland	2,070	1,950	2,110	2,250
Surrey	2,110	2,060	2,190	2,250
Calderdale	2,030	1,970	2,110	2,240
North Yorkshire	2,000	1,960	2,050	2,240
Derby	—	1,950	2,130	2,240
Southend	—	—	2,030	2,240
South Tyneside	1,970	1,900	2,050	2,230
The Wrekin	—	—	2,070	2,230
Sefton	2,080	2,020	2,100	2,220
North Somerset	2,120	2,100	2,220	2,220
Hampshire	—	2,020	2,040	2,220
Devon	—	—	2,050	2,220
Essex	—	—	2,140	2,220
West Sussex	2,020	2,000	2,070	2,220
Bexley	1,970	1,880	2,040	2,210
Lancashire	—	—	2,080	2,210
Somerset	1,910	1,950	2,030	2,210
Dudley	1,890	1,830	2,070	2,200
Rochdale	1,960	1,940	2,000	2,200
West Berkshire	—	—	2,000	2,200
Cambridgeshire	—	—	2,100	2,200
Torbay	—	—	2,020	2,200
Norfolk	1,950	2,060	2,090	2,200
Warwickshire	2,060	1,960	2,100	2,200
Walsall	2,100	2,030	2,130	2,190
South Gloucestershire	1,990	1,950	2,110	2,190
Cheshire	—	—	2,100	2,190
Herefordshire	—	—	2,080	2,190
Wakefield	2,010	1,900	2,030	2,180
Leicestershire	—	1,910	2,080	2,180
Wokingham	—	—	1,890	2,180
Dorset	—	2,030	2,150	2,170
Tameside	1,920	1,910	2,010	2,150
Middlesbrough	1,990	1,980	1,980	2,150
Bournemouth	—	1,860	2,100	2,150
Wiltshire	—	1,980	2,000	2,150
Hertfordshire	2,130	1,980	2,070	2,150
Northamptonshire	1,970	1,870	1,990	2,150
Buckinghamshire	—	1,970	2,050	2,130
Darlington	—	1,890	2,070	2,130
Gloucestershire	1,940	1,910	2,020	2,130
Wigan	1,940	1,870	2,010	2,120
Warrington	—	—	2,010	2,120
Solihull	2,020	1,900	2,000	2,110
Bury	2,040	1,860	1,900	2,100
Trafford	1,880	1,830	1,940	2,090
Poole	—	1,850	1,930	2,090
Peterborough	—	—	2,140	2,090
Worcestershire	—	—	2,010	2,070
Lincolnshire	2,000	1,910	1,930	2,060
Derbyshire	—	1,900	1,980	2,050
Stockport	1,930	1,800	1,930	2,040
Hartlepool	1,810	1,830	1,990	2,040
Staffordshire	—	1,770	1,870	2,030
East Riding of Yorkshire	1,990	1,910	1,890	2,020
Swindon	—	1,820	1,880	1,880
Pre LGR Bedfordshire	2,100	—	—	—
Pre LGR Buckinghamshire	2,040	—	—	—
Pre LGR Derbyshire	1,980	—	—	—
Pre LGR Dorset	1,980	—	—	—
Pre LGR Durham	2,060	—	—	—
Pre LGR East Sussex	2,070	—	—	—
Pre LGR Hampshire	2,120	—	—	—
Pre LGR Leicestershire	1,980	—	—	—
Pre LGR Staffordshire	1,840	—	—	—
Pre LGR Wiltshire	1,980	—	—	—
Pre LGR Berkshire	2,030	1,890	—	—
Pre LGR Cambridgeshire	2,120	2,030	—	—
Pre LGR Cheshire	1,970	1,970	—	—
Pre LGR Devon	1,980	1,930	—	—
Pre LGR Essex	2,090	1,990	—	—
Pre LGR Hereford and Worcester	2,020	1,940	—	—
Pre LGR Kent	2,030	1,990	—	—
Pre LGR Lancashire	1,990	1,950	—	—
Pre LGR Nottinghamshire	2,150	2,100	—	—
Pre LGR Shropshire	1,930	1,920	—	—

Notes:

1. Information for 2000–01 is not yet available.

2. Figures for 1996–97 to 1998–99 include grant maintained schools. Figures for 1990–2000 include ex-GM schools.

3. All figures are in real terms at 2000–01 prices (using GDP deflators published by Treasury on 20 December 2001), and rounded to the nearest £10.

4. Expenditure data for 1990–2000 are taken from section 52 outturn statements completed by local education authorities and returned to DfES.

5. A number of LEAs have yet to submit clean section 52 outturn data for 2000–01. Full information for 2000–02 is therefore not yet available.

6. Data for previous years are taken from DTER's Revenue Outturn Returns.

7. Pupil numbers used in calculating per pupil figures are financial year averages, based on January Annual School Census returns.

8. Per pupil amounts are shown for years in which LEAs existed—local government re-organisation affected a number of LEAs between 1996–97 and 1998–99.

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