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Pupil Funding

Mr. Michael Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the F40 group pupil entitlement model of funding; and if she will make a statement. [4831]

Jacqui Smith: The F40 group model provides a framework for local authorities to inform their decisions on the distribution of funding between their schools, as do other pupil entitlement or needs led models. I met representatives of the F40 group on Thursday 16 June to discuss their model.

Pupil Numbers (Gloucestershire)

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children attended schools in Gloucestershire local education authority area in 2004–05, broken down by local authority area; and what the projected figures are for 2005–06. [5194]

Jacqui Smith: The available information is given in the table.
Maintained primary and secondary schools⁽⁴⁵⁾: Actual and projected numbers of pupils (headcount) 2004/05 and 2005/06Gloucestershire Local Education Authority area

	Number (headcount) of pupils
	2004/05 (Provisional)(46)		2005/06 (Projected)(47)
	Primary level(48)	Secondary level(49)	Primary level(48)	Secondary level(49)
Cheltenham	6,350	5,960	n/a	n/a
Cotswold	5,240	5,770	n/a	n/a
Forest of Dean	5,670	5,550	n/a	n/a
Gloucester	8,330	8,750	n/a	n/a
Stroud	7,900	7,330	n/a	n/a
Tewkesbury	4,990	7,290	n/a	n/a
Gloucestershire LEA	38,480	40,650	44,320	41,210

n/a=not available
⁽⁴⁵⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.
⁽⁴⁶⁾ Source—Annual Schools Census. Figures are as at January 2005 and are provisional.
⁽⁴⁷⁾ Source—Surplus Places Survey 2004. Figures are not available at Local Authority level.
⁽⁴⁸⁾ Pupils aged four to 10 as at 31 August 2004.
⁽⁴⁹⁾ Pupils aged 11 and over as at 31 August 2004.
Note:
Pupils numbers nave been rounded to the nearest 10.





 
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Pupil Spending

Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average spending per (a) primary and (b) secondary pupil in each local education authority in England is in 2005–06. [5400]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested is given in the table as follows:

	Pupils aged 3–10	Pupils aged 11–15
England: per pupil (£)	3,840	4,700
Barking and Dagenham	4,320	5,290
Barnet	4,240	5,150
Barnsley	3,750	4,680
Bath and North East	—	—
Somerset	3,440	4,210
Bedfordshire	3,640	4,530
Bexley	3,760	4,640
Birmingham	4,200	5,260
Blackburn with Darwen	4,170	5,070
Blackpool	3,740	4,740
Bolton	3,800	4,560
Bournemouth	3,470	4,280
Bracknell Forest	3,690	4,770
Bradford	4,020	4,970
Brent	4,830	6,050
Brighton and Hove	3,840	4,760
Bristol, City of	3,870	5,050
Bromley	3,780	4,710
Buckinghamshire	3,680	4,530
Bury	3,600	4,420
Calderdale	3,740	4,580
Cambridgeshire	3,610	4,370
Camden	5,710	6,820
Cheshire	3,480	4,260
Cornwall	3,650	4,370
Coventry	3,900	4,760
Croydon	4,080	5,220
Cumbria	3,690	4,440
Darlington	3,720	4,550
Derby	3,770	4,630
Derbyshire	3,520	4,280
Devon	3,580	4,310
Doncaster	3,830	4,730
Dorset	3,450	4,240
Dudley	3,560	4,440
Durham	3,770	4,630
Haling	4,670	5,840
East Riding of Yorkshire	3,510	4,220
East Sussex	3,750	4,630
Enfield	4,280	5,190
Essex	3,690	4,550
Gateshead	3,830	4,820
Gloucestershire	3,500	4,280
Greenwich	5,200	6.460
Hackney	5,900	7,670
Halton	4,030	5,050
Hammersmith and Fulham	5,550	6,780
Hampshire	3,520	4,340
Haringey	4,980	6,290
Harrow	4,220	5,140
Hartlepool	3,920	4,880
Havering	3,730	4,710
Herefordshire	3,780	4,500
Hertfordshire	3,610	4,460
Hillingdon	4,120	5,060
Hounslow	4,550	5,470
Isle of Wight	3,780	4,690
Islington	5,700	7,210
Kensington and Chelsea	5,700	7,200
Kent	3,680	4,580
Kingston Upon Hull, City of	3,970	4,940
Kingston upon Thames	3,890	4,790
Kirklees	3,820	4,690
Knowsley	4,220	5,320
Lambeth	5,700	7,600
Lancashire	3,640	4,450
Leeds	3,710	4,630
Leicester	4,150	4,950
Leicestershire	3,330	4,060
Lewisham	5,340	6,950
Lincolnshire	3,640	4,440
Liverpool	4,150	5,190
Luton	4,120	5,140
Manchester	4,400	5,560
Medway	3,580	4,460
Merton	4,220	5,210
Middlesbrough	4,230	5,710
Milton Keynes	3,860	4,750
Newcastle upon Tyne	4,010	4,970
Newham	4,960	5,980
Norfolk	3,690	4,420
North East Lincolnshire	3,760	4,670
North Lincolnshire	3,720	4,550
North Somerset	3,520	4,340
North Tyneside	3,630	4,630
North Yorkshire	3,610	4,250
Northamptonshire	3,570	4,390
Northumberland	3,650	4,530
Nottingham	4,240	5,450
Nottinghamshire	3,480	4,240
Oldham	3,970	4,820
Oxfordshire	3,690	4,500
Peterborough	3,910	4,820
Plymouth	3,580	4,470
Poole	3,340	4,210
Portsmouth	3,800	4,780
Reading	4,080	5,290
Redbridge	4,030	4,810
Redcar and Cleveland	3,850	4,730
Richmond upon Thames	3,820	4,780
Rochdale	4,010	4,990
Rotherham	3,760	4,610
Rutland	3,660	4,390
Salford	3.990	5,010
Sandwell	3,980	4,920
Sefton	3,690	4,630
Sheffield	3,770	4,720
Shropshire	3,640	4,370
Slough	4,410	5,510
Solihull	3,480	4,270
Somerset	3,530	4,370
South Gloucestershire	3,380	4,220
South Tyneside	3,960	4,830
Southampton	3,930	4,860
Southend-on-Sea	3,770	4,720
Southwark	5,480	7,210
St. Helens	3,760	4,730
Staffordshire	3,400	4,180
Stockport	3,460	4,280
Stockton-on-Tees	3,780	4,710
Stoke-on-Trent	3,890	4,900
Suffolk	3,480	4,280
Sunderland	3,820	4,750
Surrey	3,660	4,520
Sutton	3,850	4,710
Swindon	3,560	4,410
Tameside	3,680	4,560
Telford and Wrekin	3,700	4,560
Thurrock	3,900	4,950
Torbay	3,530	4,400
Tower Hamlets	6,130	7,360
Trafford	3,530	4,350
Wakefield	3,670	4,470
Walsall	3,800	4,620
Waltham Forest	4,540	5,680
Wandsworth	5,050	6,360
Warrington	3,390	4,200
Warwickshire	3,520	4,310
West Berkshire	3,770	4,560
West Sussex	3,590	4,380
Westminster	5,450	6,460
Wigan	3,600	4,430
Wiltshire	3,590	4,290
Windsor and Maidenhead	3,770	4,690
Wirral	3,760	4,730
Wokingham	3,610	4,490
Wolverhampton	3,970	5,020
Worcestershire	3,400	4,240
York	3,400	4,270

Notes:
1. Total spending on schools by LEAs is not yet available. The figures provided show the funding allocated to each LEA by the Government for pupils aged 3–10 and 11–15.
2. Total funding includes funding via the relevant sub-blocks of the Education Formula Spending settlement / Standard Spending Assessment and revenue grants allocated at an LEA level. It includes the pensions transfer to EPS and the Learning and Skills Council, and is in cash terms.
3. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES Departmental Expenditure Limits relevant to pupils aged 3–10 and 11–15, and exclude EMAs and grants not allocated at LEA level. For those LEAs in receipt of advance of grant under the transitional support arrangements for 2004–05, advance grant funding is included in the year of payment (2004–05). There will be a consequential reduction in DfES grant for these LEAs in future years (either 2006–07 and 2007–08 or 2008–09, depending on the terms on which the advance was given to the LEA).
4. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC 3-year-old maintained pupils and estimated 3 to 4-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers.
5. Rounding: Per pupil figures are rounded to the nearest £10. Total allocation figures are rounded to the nearest £10 million.
6. 2005–06 figures are provisional as some grants have not yet been finalised/validated.





 
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