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Local Government Finance: Special Education Needs

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much each local authority spent on out-of-authority placements for special educational needs in each of the last three years, broken down by (a) social services, (b) education and (c) other. [122355]

Jim Knight: I have been asked to reply.

The Department does not collect local authority expenditure at the detail requested. However, the following table provides the available budget information on inter-authority recoupment by local authorities in England from 2004-05 to 2006-07:

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Budgeted gross expenditure on inter-authority recoupment( 1)
£
LEA name	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
England	153,026,734	162,555,495	179,209,612
Barking and Dagenham	1,158,667	1,700,000	1,860,000
Barnet	2,725,720	2,874,300	3,072,883
Barnsley	472,000	432,000	432,000
Bath and North East Somerset	344,648	363,223	300,038
Bedfordshire	978,040	1,098,722	1,161,544
Bexley	2,091,000	2,251,000	2,347,000
Birmingham	1,099,276	1,121,262	1,143,687
Blackburn with Darwen	772,000	822,001	710,000
Blackpool	498,699	396,747	424,216
Bolton	(110,275)	(93,920)	823,000
Bournemouth	707,700	737,000	829,851
Bracknell Forest	1,356,360	1,428,490	1,580,950
Bradford	1,079,480	1,450,721	1,843,522
Brent	1,387,000	1,441,000	1,605,000
Brighton and Hove	274,190	285,500	325,010
Bristol City of	1,954,105	1,893,264	1,964,901
Bromley	2,201,650	2,209,170	2,453,210
Buckinghamshire	1,565,000	1,729,284	2,013,547
Bury	694,435	632,124	595,724
Calderdale	197,850	210,775	491,840
Cambridgeshire	979,258	1,409,166	1,358,482
Camden	1,487,700	1,632,400	2,224,500
Cheshire	742,899	912,728	1,079,107
City of London	193,500	90,400	92,400
Cornwall	704,000	693,000	696,000
Coventry	598,985	610,600	622,710
Croydon	2,051,721	2,415,071	4,168,720
Cumbria	183,253	186,495	153,680
Darlington	299,460	282,152	290,421
Derby	770,086	793,188	816,587
Derbyshire	1,832,620	1,867,172	2,517,383
Devon	1,493,000	1,318,000	1,293,093
Doncaster	680	700	700
Dorset	2,697,200	3,038,300	1,748,400
Dudley	735,600	750,300	996,945
Durham	710,992	647,902	601,277
Ealing	1,617,800	1,534,700	1,583,000
East Riding of Yorkshire	2,189,380	2,508,700	3,008,880
East Sussex	947,857	1,135,277	1,717,408
Enfield	2,494,400	2,388,306	1,849,480
Essex	2,612,328	2,713,514	2,832,011
Gateshead	450,906	458,609	450,857
Gloucestershire	475,260	602,301	768,481
Greenwich	1,671,040	1,684,880	1,659,880
Hackney	3,148,228	3,388,165	3,843,962
Halton	926,392	950,990	891,270
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,845,661	2,278,260	2,636,700
Hampshire	3,204,000	3,275,000	3,382,900
Haringey	1,318,800	1,607,398	1,591,699
Harrow	1,317,760	1,289,668	1,160,731
Hartlepool	624,514	644,241	583,477
Havering	616,870	495,650	458,110
Herefordshire	98,000	5,044	(39,811)
Hertfordshire	1,045,720	1,060,883	1,083,692
Hillingdon	483,696	1,247,150	1,282,820
Hounslow	1,038,506	1,707,769	1,975,029
Isle of Wight	28,251	41,804	57,646
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0
Islington	2,324,681	2,518,405	2,952,396
Kensington and Chelsea	2,060,356	2,134,311	2,088,543
Kent	1,177,675	1,977,135	1,997,135
Kingston upon Hull City of	1,035,627	824,024	949,914
Kingston upon Thames	802,100	1,042,000	1,071,000
Kirklees	126,900	124,800	283,800
Knowsley	469,037	569,058	701,057
Lambeth	2,472,621	3,650,000	4,850,000
Lancashire	3,111,313	1,181,200	3,151,400
Leeds	731,050	745,310	773,800
Leicester	1,612,800	1,811,701	1,874,000
Leicestershire	2,432,523	2,592,201	2,416,614
Lewisham	3,821,564	3,213,834	3,264,406
Lincolnshire	50,084	492,066	1,117,290
Liverpool	350,720	357,704	816,000
Luton	1,614,904	1,334,736	1,160,570
Manchester	848,500	891,505	1,407,360
Medway	1,448,800	1,292,700	1,688,525
Merton	1,345,330	1,582,999	2,428,020
Middlesbrough	612,732	523,910	319,499
Milton Keynes	750,649	789,268	816,366
Newcastle upon Tyne	454,270	556,980	628,520
Newham	2,021,442	2,239,180	2,000,728
Norfolk	478,879	506,350	516,480
North East Lincolnshire	356,289	529,610	660,000
North Lincolnshire	727,239	849,718	838,990
North Somerset	221,350	226,500	319,770
North Tyneside	294,442	187,828	189,129
North Yorkshire	1,602,296	1,621,493	1,440,585
Northamptonshire	2,168,530	2,331,150	2,427,100
Northumberland	499,160	577,840	674,620
Nottingham	1,060,000	1,081,200	1,092,010
Nottinghamshire	2,794,242	2,851,658	2,918,410
Oldham	439,000	322,070	291,150
Oxfordshire	31,609	214,859	(442,052)
Peterborough	137,309	(143,718)	120,398
Plymouth	287,408	287,408	306,764
Poole	469,040	549,836	759,096
Portsmouth	569,200	569,200	809,400
Reading	2,315,717	2,523,674	2,819,700
Redbridge	349,644	795,903	818,897
Redcar and Cleveland	806,800	817,072	880,044
Richmond upon Thames	715,800	735,600	854,600
Rochdale	646,236	569,941	672,345
Rotherham	374,268	120,545	344,246
Rutland	166,400	195,250	214,775
Salford	926,303	986,340	875,296
Sandwell	991,653	1,101,600	1,156,600
Sefton	224,507	227,750	474,922
Sheffield	686,361	602,313	773,239
Shropshire	1,576,191	1,730,102	1,954,041
Slough	822,760	1,122,850	1,024,921
Solihull	482,973	495,100	853,975
Somerset	264,170	420,000	420,000
South Gloucestershire	1,320,000	1,509,000	1,583,000
South Tyneside	184,252	189,763	195,411
Southampton	564,499	580,300	441,508
Southend-on-Sea	462,701	691,247	818,897
Southwark	2,210,034	2,435,000	956,958
St. Helens	301,635	301,876	350,126
Staffordshire	1,739,560	1,993,050	1,942,879
Stockport	473,222	484,106	494,756
Stockton-on-Tees	745,281	754,258	724,172
Stoke-on-Trent	1,944,948	1,138,680	1,684,840
Suffolk	100,000	103,000	108,000
Sunderland	248,422	300,985	335,191
Surrey	2,303,161	2,388,952	2,638,838
Sutton	1,139,500	1,097,100	1,057,526
Swindon	0	24,724	(41,037)
Tameside	606,350	833,770	995,030
Telford and Wrekin	241,712	251,380	451,000
Thurrock	902,209	875,500	709,402
Torbay	894,890	848,404	525,780
Tower Hamlets	1,519,554	1,587,489	1,610,640
Trafford	638,193	538,297	653,943
Wakefield	245,280	0	0
Walsall	228,860	368,670	473,835
Waltham Forest	450,857	644,479	1,507,822
Wandsworth	1,994,412	2,268,553	2,515,264
Warrington	677,557	594,432	615,470
Warwickshire	803,244	847,333	1,073,642
West Berkshire	810,022	942,990	993,991
West Sussex	635,300	900,400	983,561
Westminster	2,898,000	3,382,700	3,875,800
Wigan	208,696	310,199	414,034
Wiltshire	1,923,493	1,772,272	1,707,623
Windsor and Maidenhead	1,144,110	1,165,800	1,194,950
Wirral	191,900	246,700	403,700
Wokingham	652,984	668,486	687,550
Wolverhampton	625,000	623,700	482,000
Worcestershire	553,360	586,535	600,026
York	198,214	204,750	210,540
Notes: 1. Budgeted gross expenditure on inter-authority recoupment includes any estimated expenditure in relation to transactions between authorities in accordance with regulations made under sections 493 or 494 of the 1996 Act or section 207 of the 2002 Act (recoupment between authorities). 2. Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 20 February 2007.

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