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Education: Per Capita Costs
Chris Ruane:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the amount of money available to each English local education authority per school pupil was in the school year 1996-97 in (a) actual and (b) real terms at 2007 prices, ranked in order of the amount of grant available from his Department. [122107]
Jim Knight
[holding answer 21 February 2007]: The figures in the following table show the education blocks of the 1996-97 Standard Spending Assessment (SSA) settlement (part of the Local Government Finance
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Settlement from what was then Department of Environment) plus Grants for Education, Support and Training from the then Department for Education and Employment. The table does not include the Isles of Scilly and the City of London due to their small size.
| Funding for pupils aged five to 15 and reflects the 132 local authorities that existed in 1996-97 |
| LEA | Cash terms | Real terms |
|
Tower Hamlets
|
3,520
|
4,370
|
|
Lambeth
|
3,500
|
4,350
|
|
Hackney
|
3,470
|
4,310
|
|
Southwark
|
3,320
|
4,120
|
|
Islington
|
3,300
|
4,100
|
|
Camden
|
3,260
|
4,050
|
|
Hammersmith and Fulham
|
3,230
|
4,010
|
|
Lewisham
|
3,210
|
3,990
|
|
Greenwich
|
3,130
|
3,890
|
|
Westminster
|
3,080
|
3,820
|
|
Wandsworth
|
3,050
|
3,790
|
|
Kensington and Chelsea
|
3,030
|
3,760
|
|
Haringey
|
3,030
|
3,760
|
|
Newham
|
3,010
|
3,740
|
|
Brent
|
2,970
|
3,690
|
|
Waltham Forest
|
2,870
|
3,560
|
|
Ealing
|
2,750
|
3,420
|
|
Hounslow
|
2,710
|
3,370
|
|
Manchester
|
2,670
|
3,320
|
|
Enfield
|
2,650
|
3,290
|
|
Barking and Dagenham
|
2,640
|
3,280
|
|
Croydon
|
2,620
|
3,250
|
|
Redbridge
|
2,600
|
3,230
|
|
Knowsley
|
2,580
|
3,200
|
|
Merton
|
2,550
|
3,170
|
|
Barnet
|
2,540
|
3,150
|
|
Harrow
|
2,540
|
3,150
|
|
Liverpool
|
2,540
|
3,150
|
|
Hillingdon
|
2,530
|
3,140
|
|
Birmingham
|
2,510
|
3,120
|
|
Sutton
|
2,500
|
3,100
|
|
Bexley
|
2,460
|
3,050
|
|
Newcastle upon Tyne
|
2,450
|
3,040
|
|
Havering
|
2,440
|
3,030
|
|
Kingston upon Thames
|
2,430
|
3,020
|
|
Middlesbrough
|
2,430
|
3,020
|
|
Wolverhampton
|
2,420
|
3,010
|
|
Isle of Wight Council
|
2,420
|
3,010
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
2,410
|
2,990
|
|
Bradford
|
2,400
|
2,980
|
|
Bromley
|
2,390
|
2,970
|
|
City of Kingston-upon-Hull
|
2,390
|
2,970
|
|
Sandwell
|
2,380
|
2,960
|
|
Bedfordshire(1)
|
2,380
|
2,960
|
|
Essex(1)
|
2,380
|
2,960
|
|
Coventry
|
2,370
|
2,940
|
|
Redcar and Cleveland
|
2,370
|
2,940
|
|
Berkshire(1)
|
2,370
|
2,940
|
|
Salford
|
2,360
|
2,930
|
|
Doncaster
|
2,360
|
2,930
|
|
East Sussex(1)
|
2,360
|
2,930
|
|
Kent(1)
|
2,360
|
2,930
|
|
Surrey
|
2,360
|
2,930
|
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|
Richmond upon Thames
|
2,350
|
2,920
|
|
Buckinghamshire(1)
|
2,350
|
2,920
|
|
Wirral
|
2,340
|
2,910
|
|
Rochdale
|
2,340
|
2,910
|
|
South Tyneside
|
2,340
|
2,910
|
|
Oldham
|
2,330
|
2,890
|
|
Gateshead
|
2,330
|
2,890
|
|
Sunderland
|
2,320
|
2,880
|
|
City of Bristol
|
2,320
|
2,880
|
|
Hartlepool
|
2,320
|
2,880
|
|
Walsall
|
2,310
|
2.870
|
|
Sheffield
|
2,310
|
2,870
|
|
Cornwall
|
2,310
|
2,870
|
|
Durham(1)
|
2,310
|
2,870
|
|
West Sussex
|
2,310
|
2,870
|
|
Rotherham
|
2,300
|
2,860
|
|
Calderdale
|
2,300
|
2,860
|
|
Hampshire(1)
|
2,300
|
2,860
|
|
Oxfordshire
|
2,300
|
2,860
|
|
Kirklees
|
2,290
|
2,840
|
|
Stockton-on-Tees
|
2,290
|
2,840
|
|
North East Lincolnshire
|
2,290
|
2,840
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
2,290
|
2,840
|
|
Norfolk
|
2,290
|
2,840
|
|
North Lincolnshire
|
2,280
|
2,830
|
|
Nottinghamshire(1)
|
2,280
|
2,830
|
|
Barnsley
|
2,270
|
2,820
|
|
North Tyneside
|
2,270
|
2,820
|
|
Cambridgeshire(1)
|
2,270
|
2,820
|
|
Cumbria
|
2,270
|
2,820
|
|
Devon(1)
|
2,270
|
2,820
|
|
Lancashire(1)
|
2,270
|
2,820
|
|
Northumberland
|
2,270
|
2,820
|
|
St. Helens
|
2,260
|
2,810
|
|
Sefton
|
2,260
|
2,810
|
|
Bolton
|
2,260
|
2,810
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
2,260
|
2,810
|
|
Leicestershire(1)
|
2,260
|
2,810
|
|
Shropshire(1)
|
2,260
|
2,810
|
|
Leeds
|
2,250
|
2,790
|
|
Somerset
|
2,240
|
2,780
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
2,230
|
2,770
|
|
Wigan
|
2.220
|
2,760
|
|
Derbyshire(1)
|
2,220
|
2,760
|
|
Dorset(1)
|
2,220
|
2,760
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
2,220
|
2,760
|
|
Hereford and Worcester(1)
|
2,220
|
2,760
|
|
Wiltshire(1)
|
2,220
|
2,760
|
|
Tameside
|
2,210
|
2,740
|
|
Trafford
|
2,210
|
2,740
|
|
Wakefield
|
2,210
|
2,740
|
|
Cheshire(1)
|
2,210
|
2,740
|
|
Suffolk
|
2,210
|
2,740
|
|
Warwickshire
|
2,210
|
2,740
|
|
Dudley
|
2,200
|
2,730
|
|
Bury
|
2,200
|
2,730
|
|
East Riding of Yorkshire
|
2,200
|
2,730
|
|
York
|
2,200
|
2,730
|
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|
Staffordshire(1)
|
2,190
|
2,720
|
|
Bath and North East Somerset
|
2,180
|
2,710
|
|
Solihull
|
2,170
|
2,690
|
|
Stockport
|
2,160
|
2,680
|
|
North Somerset
|
2,160
|
2,680
|
|
South Gloucestershire
|
2,120
|
2,630
|
|
England
|
2,370
|
2,940
|
(1) LEAs affected by local government re-organisation in 1997-98.
Notes:
1. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of Standard Spending Assessment (SSA) settlement and Grants for Education, Support and Training.
2. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to per pupil are those underlying the SSA settlement calculations.
3. Figures are rounded to the nearest £10. Cash and real terms at 2005-06 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 21 December 2006.
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