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Written question asked by Peter Luff (Conservative) on Tuesday, 10 January 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 12 January 2006. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Monday, 23 January 2006 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Pupil Funding

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total funding per pupil in (a) cash and (b) real terms is for each local education authority in England for 2005–06, calculated on the basis used for the figures provided to the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire on 9 November 2004; what the figures are planned to be in (i) 2006–07 and (ii) 2007–08; and what the national average is for each year.
Answer

Total funding per pupil for each local education authority in 2005–06 in cash terms is set out in Table 1. Real terms figures are only used when making comparisons between one year and another.The funding methodology for schools and other local authority services is changing from 2006–07, so the Department is working on developing a new series to show funding on the new basis.

Table 1: Total funding per pupil aged 3–19, in cash terms, 2005–06
2005–06 (£)
301 Barking and Dagenham 4,830
302 Barnet 4,770
370 Bamsley 4,200
800 Bath and North East Somerset 3,930
820 Bedfordshire 4,140
303 Bexley 4,260
330 Birmingham 4,750
889 Blackburn with Darwen 4,610
890 Blackpool 4,230
350 Bolton 4,220
837 Bournemouth 3,960
867 Bracknell Forest 4,230
380 Bradford 4,530
304 Brent 5,440
846 Brighton and Hove 4,330
801 Bristol, City of 4,390
305 Bromley 4,350
825 Buckinghamshire 4,200
351 Bury 4,030
381 Calderdale 4,220
873 Cambridgeshire 4,000
202 Camden 6,280
875 Cheshire 3,930
908 Cornwall 4,060
331 Coventry 4,390
306 Croydon 4,610
909 Cumbria 4,140
841 Darlington 4,150
831 Derby 4,230
830 Derbyshire 3,930
878 Devon 4,000
371 Doncaster 4,330
835 Dorset 3,940
332 Dudley 3,990
840 Durham 4,240
307 Ealing 5,240
811 East Riding of Yorkshire 3,930
845 East Sussex 4,210
308 Enfield 4,800
881 Essex 4,160
390 Gateshead 4,340
916 Gloucestershire 3,950
203 Greenwich 5,820
204 Hackney 6,650
876 Halton 4,560
205 Hammersmith and Fulham 6,180
850 Hampshire 3,920
309 Haringey 5,580
310 Harrow 4,650
805 Hartlepool 4,430
311 Havering 4,250
884 Herefordshire 4,150
919 Hertfordshire 4,110
312 Hillingdon 4,650
313 Hounslow 5,070
921 Isle of Wight 4,310
206 Islington 6,400
207 Kensington and Chelsea 6,380
886 Kent 4,190
810 Kingston upon Hull, City of 4,450
314 Kingston upon Thames 4,470
382 Kirklees 4,250
340 Knowsley 4,750
208 Lambeth 6,410
888 Lancashire 4,080
383 Leeds 4,210
856 Leicester 4,570
855 Leicestershire 3,770
209 Lewisham 6,020
925 Lincolnshire 4,100
341 Liverpool 4,760
821 Luton 4,590
352 Manchester 4,970
887 Medway 4,100
315 Merton 4,720
806 Middlesbrough 4,780
826 Milton Keynes 4,360
391 Newcastle upon Tyne 4,550
316 Newham 5,470
926 Norfolk 4,090
812 North East Lincolnshire 4,220
813 North Lincolnshire 4,140
802 North Somerset 3,970
392 North Tyneside 4,150
815 North Yorkshire 4,030
928 Northamptonshire 4,000
929 Northumberland 4,190
892 Nottingham 4,830
891 Nottinghamshire 3,920
353 Oldham 4,420
931 Oxfordshire 4,140
874 Peterborough 4,420
879 Plymouth 4,120
836 Poole 3,860
851 Portsmouth 4,260
870 Reading 4,630
317 Redbridge 4,500
807 Redcar and Cleveland 4,330
318 Richmond upon Thames 4,230
354 Rochdale 4,500
372 Rotherham 4,230
857 Rutland 4,050
355 Salford 4,490
333 Sandwell 4,470
343 Sefton 4,240
373 Sheffield 4,250
893 Shropshire 4,040
871 Slough 4,980
334 Solihull 3,880
933 Somerset 3,950
803 South Gloucestershire 3,830
393 South Tyneside 4,440
852 Southampton 4,400
882 Southend-on-Sea 4,290
210 Southwark 6,190
342 St. Helens 4,270
860 Staffordshire 3,850
356 Stockport 3,850
808 Stockton-on-Tees 4,250
861 Stoke-on-Trent 4,400
935 Suffolk 3,940
394 Sunderland 4,330
936 Surrey 4,130
319 Sutton 4,430
866 Swindon 3,970
357 Tameside 4,130
894 Telford and Wrekin 4,120
883 Thurrock 4,360
880 Torbay 4,040
211 Tower Hamlets 6,740
358 Trafford 4,000
384 Wakefield 4,100
335 Walsall 4,280
320 Waltham Forest 5,120
212 Wandsworth 5,710
877 Warrington 3,810
937 Warwickshire 3,970
869 West Berkshire 4,300
938 West Sussex 4,030
213 Westminster 6,040
359 Wigan 4,030
865 Wiltshire 3,980
868 Windsor and Maidenhead 4,330
344 Wirral 4,310
872 Wokingham 4,130
336 Wolverhampton 4,500
885 Worcestershire 3,880
816 York 3,880
England 4,310
Notes: 1. Price Base: Cash. 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks from the education formula spending (EFS) settlement and include the pensions transfer to EFS and the Learning and Skills Council. 3. Total funding also includes ail revenue grants in DfES departmental expenditure limits relevant to pupils aged 3–19 and exclude education maintenance allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level. 4. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the EFS settlement calculations. 5. Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest £10. 6. Status: 2005–06 figures are provisional as some grants have not yet been finalised/audited.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
42022; 441 c1922-4W
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Finance Education Local education authorities Pupils Per capita costs
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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