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School Management Costs

Derek Wyatt: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment has been undertaken to compare management costs imposed by local authorities for the administration of her policies in schools. [54175]

Jacqui Smith: The Department does not collect information on management costs within local authorities. However the available information for the costs relating to central administration within local education authorities is given in the following table:
Local authority central administration⁽⁷¹⁾ ranked as a percentage of total education spending for financial year 2004–05⁽⁷²⁾

Local authority name	Central administration net current expenditure(71) (£)	Total education spending net current expenditure (£)	Expenditure on central administration as a percentage of total education spending	Ranking (from highest to lowest percentage of total education spending spent on central administration)(73)
England	560,717,875	33,294,983,910	1.7	—
Barking and Dagenham	3,497,542	146,987,102	2.4	29
Barnet	4,464,101	215,184,171	2.1	43
Barnsley	3,168,952	145,977,337	2.2	40
Bath and North East Somerset	2,453,151	107,302,299	2.3	33
Bedfordshire	1,782,204	259,303,729	0.7	143
Bexley	2,156,000	169,639,723	1.3	112
Birmingham	12,242,677	827,443,320	1.5	91
Blackburn with Darwen	2,998,785	113,431,229	2.6	23
Blackpool	2,015,189	94,129,430	2.1	42
Bolton	2,348,475	189,606,156	1.2	114
Bournemouth	1,458,023	86,343,883	1.7	69
Bracknell Forest	1,123,695	63,934,846	1.8	63
Bradford	7,495,685	364,979,401	2.1	44
Brent	1,614,518	201,768,885	0.8	139
Brighton and Hove	1,946,398	133,431,395	1.5	92
Bristol City of	3,138,681	215,485,577	1.5	93
Bromley	2,621,689	193,177,205	1.4	101
Buckinghamshire	7,047,408	328,998,756	2.1	41
Bury	2,177,794	114,724,055	1.9	53
Calderdale	6,296,915	143,064,537	4.4	6
Cambridgeshire	5,679,636	313,234,223	1.8	55
Camden	2,796,887	149,509,453	1.9	54
Cheshire	8,252,556	425,738,378	1.9	49
City of London3	443,317	3,738,630	11.9	2
Cornwall	6,618,857	329,344,344	2.0	47
Coventry	4,019,215	226,178,609	1.8	57
Croydon	3,019,147	219,330,095	1.4	99
Cumbria	3,405,557	326,735,872	1.0	129
Darlington	964,904	62,390,712	1.5	84
Derby	2,656,381	167,223,447	1.6	80
Derbyshire	5,985,352	452,578,115	1.3	105
Devon	7,040,185	397,563,956	1.8	59
Doncaster	4,134,337	210,880,206	2.0	48
Dorset	4,577,470	259,196,526	1.8	61
Dudley	2,114,206	209,764,332	1.0	130
Durham	2,878,503	333,872,414	0.9	137
Baling	7,158,210	205,460,411	3.5	11
East Riding of Yorkshire	3,209,491	200,641,767	1.6	77
East Sussex	360,454	292,834,817	0.1	149
Enfield	7,412,973	232,615,982	3.2	13
Essex	7,781,602	823,194,132	0.9	132
Gateshead	2,282,803	142,891,356	1.6	78
Gloucestershire	10,274,226	349,348,344	2.9	18
Greenwich	2,354,736	196,190,810	1.2	118
Hackney	7,560,565	162,540,025	4.7	4
Halton	2,390,688	94,534,011	2.5	27
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,006,018	108,453,087	0.9	135
Hampshire	9,438,351	701,265,696	1.3	102
Haringey	86,648	191,150,232	0.0	150
Harrow	1,217,836	131,788,047	0.9	136
Hartlepool	1,042,329	67,345,674	1.5	83
Havering	2,171,455	156,707,131	1.4	98
Herefordshire	1,605,444	98,210,636	1.6	74
Hertfordshire	8,436,383	705,922,748	1.2	119
Hillingdon	1,119,568	174,770,694	0.6	145
Hounslow	2,712,353	178,232,426	1.5	86
Isle of Wight	1,142,813	85,688,761	1.3	103
Isles Of Scilly(73)	318,968	2,616,422	12.2	1
Islington	3,605,848	139,303,314	2.6	24
Kensington and Chelsea	543,575	76,787,906	0.7	142
Kent	13,269,655	883,993,201	1.5	90
Kingston upon Hull City of	1,886,598	174,249,299	1.1	128
Kingston upon Thames	2,070,327	94,508,690	2.2	39
Kirklees	4,319,800	271,230,900	1.6	79
Knowsiey	2,191,849	115,210,777	1.9	52
Lambeth	2,945,995	170,296,754	1.7	66
Lancashire	8,705,686	750,413,163	1.2	125
Leeds	7,461,684	471,975,682	1.6	81
Leicester	1,653,204	224,476,605	0.7	140
Leicestershire	8,559,226	382,563,665	2.2	35
Lewisham	6,631,767	217,244,019	3.1	16
Lincolnshire	2,989,499	409,202,380	0.7	141
Liverpool	4,556,882	377,773,839	1.2	116
Luton	5,092,606	159,468,662	3.2	12
Manchester	4,498,752	352,987,395	1.3	111
Medway	1,314,100	194,123,827	0.7	144
Merton	4,709,240	114,827,621	4.1	9
Middlesbrough	1,597,571	96,117,215	1.7	71
Milton Keynes	2,377,313	156,290,552	1.5	87
Newcastle upon Tyne	2,380,758	185,149,569	1.3	110
Newham	6,530,090	255,966,840	2.6	25
Norfolk	2,742,939	525,932,056	0.5	147
North East Lincolnshire	664,094	106,822,003	0.6	146
North Lincolnshire	3,404,461	116,717,049"	2.9	19
North Somerset	1,950,008	110,933,655	1.8	62
North Tyneside	1,983,717	129,404,451	1.5	85
North Yorkshire	3,519,057	430,511,106	0.8	138
Northamptonshire	5,424,737	407,685,446	1.3	104
Northumberland	3,641,178	214,026,328	1.7	68
Nottingham	5,906,500	193,985,849	3.0	17
Nottinghamshire	9,253,125	478,640,705	1.9	50
Oldham	3,942,875	175,530,418	2.2	34
Oxfordshire	8,595,327	371,668,138	2.3	31
Peterborough	3,779,251	131,315,548	2.9	20
Plymouth	2,254,481	172,224,273	1.3	107
Poole	1,246,424	75,052,828	1.7	72
Portsmouth	2,649,173	112,883,835	2.3	30
Reading	1,533,633	79,614,901	1.9	51
Redbridge	3,347,260	192,758,669	1.7	64
Redcar and Cleveland	1,258,171	106,243,919	1.2	120
Richmond upon Thames	1,058,757	89,828,673	1.2	121
Rochdale	2,306,392	161,259,275	1.4	95
Rotherham	4,963,478	194,970,893	2.5	26
Rutland	339,339	21,789,629	1.6	82
Salford	1,764,882	150,772,105	1.2	123
Sandwell	3,365,941	224,061,787	1.5	89
Sefton	1,752,511	187,921,687	0.9	134
Sheffield	3,696,312	315,711,249	1.2	122
Shropshire	1,504,578	159,457,245	0.9	133
Slough	3,852,051	96,615,407	4.0	10
Solihull	2,991,651	136,104,069	2.2	38
Somerset	1,514,284	296,133,182	0.5	148
South Gloucestershire	1,977,000	157,865,932	1.3	113
South Tyneside	4,862,665	112,458,717	4.3	7
Southampton	3,794,644	135,139,091	2.8	21
Southend-on-Sea	1,490,830	113,682,074	1.3	106
Southwark	10,014,592	214,187,125	4.7	3
St. Helens	1,516,417	125,097,884	1.2	115
Staffordshire	4,976,204	495,767,539	1.0	131
Stockport	1,962,724	162,725,099	1.2	117
Stockton-on-Tees	2,103,677	129,025,009	1.6	75
Stoke-on-Trent	4,375,558	162,114,222	2.7	22
Suffolk	8,300,029	408,695,482	2.0	45
Sunderland	4,779,723	208,285,729	2.3	32
Surrey	10,026,368	578,937,725	1.7	65
Sutton	2,300,816	134,313,691	1.7	67
Swindon	2,294,823	113,428,106	2.0	46
Tameside	2,019,000	141,256,788	1.4	96
Telford and Wrekin	1,551,105	111,815,102	1.4	97
Thurrock	1,928,610	108,143,264	1.8	56
Torbay	1,986,909	81,915,361	2.4	28
Tower Hamlets	11,026,422	245,405,314	4.5	5
Trafford	1,899,459	125,761,395	1.5	88
Wakefield	2,420,042	207,747,175	1.2	124
Walsall	8,041,846	189,164,612	4.3	8
Waltham Forest	5,177,572	169,066,651	3.1	15
Wandsworth	2,098,459	153,533,914	1.4	100
Warrington	1,990,209	119,313,453	1.7	70
Warwickshire	7,295,198	327,872,209	2.2	36
West Berkshire	1,159,670	104,108,587	1.1	126
West Sussex	6,153,319	427,553,729	1.4	94
Westminster	1,642,638	125,928,235	1.3	108
Wigan	3,555,475	200,777,355	1.8	58
Wiltshire	2,867,529	262,171,741	1.1	127
Windsor and Maidenhead	1,487,289	84,086,977	1.8	60
Wirral	3,674,634	223,796,278	1.6	73
Wokingham	1,197,186	92,994,847	1.3	109
Wolverhampton	2,895,380	180,125,791	1.6	76
Worcestershire	6,950,942	315,747,798	2.2	37
York	3,105,994	99,640,100	3.1	14

⁽⁷¹⁾ Central administration covers the overall management of the local authority's responsibility in relation to education.
⁽⁷²⁾ 2004–05 figures in cash terms as reported by local authorities as at 23 February 2006.
⁽⁷³⁾ Due to having only one school, Isles of Scilly LA and City of London LA will have a different expenditure pattern than other authorities which will include some fixed central administration costs which are unavoidable regardless of the size of the local authority. Consequently the expenditure on central administration as a percentage of total education spending by City of London and Isles of Scilly LA's should not be compared with other authorities.



 
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