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Metropolitan authorities	2008-09 guaranteed per pupil unit of funding (£)
Barnsley	3,848
Birmingham	4,448
Bolton	3,978
Bradford	4,107
Bury	3,926
Calderdale	3,912
Coventry	4,110
Doncaster	3,941
Dudley	3,949
Gateshead	3,986
Kirklees	3,947
Knowsley	4,236
Leeds	3,926
Liverpool	4,320
Manchester	4,571
Newcastle upon Tyne	4,096
North Tyneside	3,836
Oldham	4,118
Rochdale	4,171
Rotherham	4,045
Salford	4,309
Sandwell	4,214
Sefton	3,917
Sheffield	3,947
Solihull	3,750
South Tyneside	4,092
St. Helens	3,977
Stockport	3,902
Sunderland	3,990
Tameside	3,983
Trafford	3,852
Wakefield	3,881
Walsall	4,023
Wigan	3,948
Wirral	3,937
Wolverhampton	4,145

Unitary authorities	2008-09 guaranteed per pupil unit of funding (£)
Bath and North East Somerset	3,891
Blackburn with Darwen	4,254
Blackpool	3,982
Bournemouth	3,825
Bracknell Forest	4,017
Brighton and Hove	4,103
Bristol, City of	4,366
Darlington	3,944
Derby	3,978
East Riding of Yorkshire	3,715
Halton	4,226
Hartlepool	4,029
Herefordshire	3,687
Isle of Wight	4,051
Kingston upon Hull, City of	4,168
Leicester	4,151
Luton	4,251
Medway	4,034
Middlesbrough	4,182
Milton Keynes	4,080
North East Lincolnshire	4,134
North Lincolnshire	3,822
North Somerset	3,757
Nottingham	4,500
Peterborough	4,098
Plymouth	3,889
Poole	3,724
Portsmouth	4,061
Reading	4,260
Redcar and Cleveland	3,990
Rutland	3,898
Slough	4,404
South Gloucestershire	3,647
Southampton	4,117
Southend-on-Sea	4,026
Stockton-on-Tees	3,960
Stoke-on-Trent	4,070
Swindon	3,775
Telford and Wrekin	3,911
Thurrock	4,141
Torbay	3,922
Warrington	3,819
West Berkshire	3,984
Windsor and Maidenhead	4,040
Wokingham	3,844
York	3,801

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Upper tier authorities	2008-09 guaranteed per pupil unit of funding (£)
Bedfordshire	3,817
Buckinghamshire	3,899
Cambridgeshire	3,787
Cheshire	3,880
Cornwall	3,742
Cumbria	3,831
Derbyshire	3,825
Devon	3,707
Dorset	3,799
Durham	3,982
East Sussex	3,997
Essex	3,924
Gloucestershire	3,744
Hampshire	3,824
Hertfordshire	3,896
Kent	3,938
Lancashire	3,927
Leicestershire	3,596
Lincolnshire	3,795
Norfolk	3,807
North Yorkshire	3,854
Northamptonshire	3,785
Northumberland	3,711
Nottinghamshire	3,842
Oxfordshire	3,870
Shropshire	3,715
Somerset	3,752
Staffordshire	3,776
Suffolk	3,763
Surrey	3,976
Warwickshire	3,789
West Sussex	3,877
Wiltshire	3,713
Worcestershire	3,729
Notes: 1. This covers funding through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). 2. This figure does not represent the totality of ‘education’ funding allocated in that year.

Schools

Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what studies his Department has (a) conducted and (b) reviewed on the ideal size of state schools in urban and rural areas; and if he will make a statement. [190657]

Jim Knight [holding answer 3 March 2008]: The Department commissioned an international research review in 2004 on the impact of secondary school size on student, teacher and school outcomes. The research was conducted by the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating (EPPI) Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London on behalf of the Department. The research found no consistent relationship between the size of the school and pupil outcomes and was based mainly on studies from the US. The Department has not commissioned research to investigate the question of ideal school size in urban or rural areas, or on ideal primary school size.

The Secretary of State will not be making a statement on this issue.

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