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Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his latest estimate is of the average level of funding per pupil in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools; and what proportion of funding per pupil was delivered through local education authorities in each year since 1996-97. [150840]
Jim Knight: All revenue funding to pupils aged three to 19 has been delivered through local education authorities since 1996-97.
The revenue funding figures per pupil aged three to 10 and 11 to 15 for England for years 1997-98 to 2005-06 are provided in the following table. Comparable figures are not available for 1996-97.
| Primary (3 to10-year-olds) | Secondary (11 to 15-year-olds) | |
| Notes: 1. Price Base: Real terms at 2005-06 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 27 September 2906. 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of Standard Spending Assessment/Education Formula Spending (EFS) settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS. 3. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DCSF Departmental Expenditure Limits relevant to pupils aged three to 15 and exclude Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level. 4. The pupil numbers used to convert m figures to per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations. 5. Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 6. Status: Some of the grant allocations have not been finalised. If these do change, the effect on the funding figures is expected to be minimal. | ||
The revenue per pupil figures shown in the table below are taken from the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) which was introduced in April 2006 and are in cash terms. They are not comparable with those for the years 1997-98 to 2005-06 because the introduction of the DSG in 2006-07 fundamentally changed how local authorities are funded.
The 1997-98 to 2005-06 figures are based on Education Formula Spending (EFS) which formed the education part of the Local Government Finance Settlement, plus various grants. This was an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education rather than what they spent. In addition, the DSG has a different coverage to EFS. EFS comprised a schools block and an LEA block (to cover LEA central functions) whereas DSG only covers the school block. LEA block items are still funded through DCLG's Local Government Finance Settlement but education items cannot be separately identified. Consequently, there is a break in the Department's time series as the two sets of data are not comparable. An alternative time series is currently under development.
To provide a comparison for 2006-07 DSG, the Department have isolated the schools block equivalent funding in 2005-06; as described this does not represent the totality of ‘education’ funding in that year. As the DSG is just a mechanism for distributing funding there is not a primary/secondary split available. There are other grants that support the schools budget, these are not included in the provided DSG figures. The figures are for all funded pupils aged three to 15.
| Revenue per pupil( 1) | |
| (1) In cash terms Notes: 1. The revenue funding per pupil figures only run to 2005-06 because the Department cannot provide a consistent time series beyond that year as the introduction of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) in 2006-07 fundamentally changed how local authorities are funded. The 1997-98 to 2005-06 figures are based on Education Formula Spending (EFS) which formed the education part of the Local Government Finance Settlement, plus various grants. This was an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education rather than what they spent. In 2006-07 funding for schools changed with the introduction of the DSG which is based largely on an authority's previous spending. 2. In addition, DSG has a different coverage to EFS: EFS comprised a schools block and an LEA block (to cover LEA central functions) whereas DSG only covers the school block. LEA block items are still funded through DCLG's Local Government Finance Settlement but education items cannot be separately identified. This means we have a break in our time series as the two sets of data are not comparable, an alternative time series is currently under development. 3. To provide a comparison for 2006-07 DSG, we have isolated the schools block equivalent funding in 2005-06; as described this does not represent the totality of ‘education’ funding in that year. 4. Some of the grant allocations have not been finalised. If these do change, the effect on the funding figures is expected to be minimal. | |
Mr. Anthony Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average amount spent on each school pupil was in (a) 1997 and (b) 2007. [151960]
Jim Knight: The requested information is contained in the following table:
| School based expenditure per pupil( 1'2'3'4) and combined local authority and school based expenditure per pupil5:1997-98 and 2005-06( 6, 7) | |||||||
| Cash terms figures( 8) as reported by local authorities as at 19 July 2007. | |||||||
| School based expenditure per pupil( 1, 2, 3) | |||||||
| Primary | Pre-primary and primary( 4) | Secondary | Special | Total (excluding pre-primary)( 4) | Total (including pre-primary)( 4) | Total combined local authority and school based expenditure per pupil( 5) | |
| (1) 1999-2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RO1 form collected by the ODPM to the Section 52 form from the DFES. 2002-03 saw a further break in the time series following the introduction of Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) and the associated restructuring of the outturn tables. (2) School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by local authority maintained schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure. The pupil data are drawn from the DFES Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis. (3) The school based expenditure calculation for 2005-06 is broadly similar to the calculation in 1997-98. However, 1997-98 includes all premature retirement compensation (PRC) and Crombie payments, mandatory PRC payments and other indirect employee expenses whereas only the schools element of these categories is included in 2005-06. Also, for some LAs, expenditure that had previously been attributed to the school sectors was reported within the LA part of the form from 2002-03 onwards and hence would be excluded from the 2005-06 school based expenditure figures, though this is not quantifiable from existing sources. (4) Expenditure was not distinguished between the pre-primary and primary sectors until the inception of Section 52 for the 1999-2000 financial year. Comparable figures for school based expenditure in local authority maintained nursery schools are not available from 2002-03 onwards and consequently direct comparisons should not be made between the pre-primary and primary figures and total (including pre-primary) figures for 1997-98 and 2005-06. (5) Combined local authority and school based expenditure includes all expenditure on the education of children in local authority maintained establishments and pupils educated by the authority other than in maintained establishments. This includes both school based expenditure and all elements of central LA expenditure except youth and community and capital expenditure from revenue (CERA). Certain elements of central local authority expenditure cannot be attributed to a particular phase of education and consequently a sector breakdown is not available. Pupil figures include all pre-primary pupils, including those under fives funded by the authority and being educated in private settings, pupils educated in maintained mainstream schools and any other local authority maintained pupils. All pupil numbers are adjusted to be on a financial year basis. (6) Spending in 1997-98 reflects the transfer of monies from local government to central government for the nursery vouchers scheme. These were returned to local government from 1998-99. (7) Figures for 1999-2000 onwards reflect the return of GM schools to local authority maintenance. (8) Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. | |||||||
Pupils: Personal Records
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what information is held by (a) schools, (b) local education authorities and (c) the Government on the family circumstances of pupils; and if he will make a statement. [149152]
Jim Knight: It is for schools and local education authorities to decide what information they hold on the family circumstances of pupils. The Department holds information on all pupils in maintained schools on their eligibility for free school meals, and on which pupils are subject to a care order or accommodated by a local authority. There are also some research exercises which collect information on the family circumstances of a limited sample of pupils.
Schools
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools appealed against their local education authority number on the basis of its being too (a) low and (b) high in each year since 1996-97; and what proportion of appeals was successful in each year. [150677]
Jim Knight: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Schools: Capital Expenditure
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much capital expenditure there was on schools in each local authority area in each year since 2003-04, excluding spending on academies; and if he will make a statement. [151882]
Jim Knight: Capital allocations for schools made so far in each local authority area in each year since 2003-04, excluding spending on academies, are set out in the following table.
| £000 | ||||||
| Local authority name | Local authority number | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
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