News Release
4th December 2003
GOVERNMENT RELEASES FORMULA SPENDING SHARE FOR SCHOOLS 2004-05
"Like sucking blood out of a stone" says Michael Fabricant, the Government
(through Schools Minister David Miliband) has just released the formula
spending share per pupil for each of the local education authorities in
England for 2004-2005. Out of 151 local education authorities,
Staffordshire is 6th from the very bottom of worst funded.
In 2004-05 Staffordshire schools will have allocated £2,209 per primary
school allocated per pupil and £2,876 per secondary school pupil. This
compares with secondary school funding of £3,426 for Manchester and a
staggering £4,748 for Tower Hamlets in the east end of London.
"In an average secondary school of 1100 pupils, it means that next year a
headmaster in Greater Manchester will receive £605,000 than a similar school
in Staffordshire. This just cannot be fair" says Michael Fabricant. "I
have argued since I entered Parliament in 1992 that apart from children with
special educational needs, those needing to be taught English as a second
language, and central London where teachers are paid on a higher scale,
every school throughout the land should receive the same amount per primary
and secondary school pupil. I will continue to fight for this and I hope
that Labour Members of Parliament will fight for this too".
| LEA | Average primary formula spending share per pupil | Average secondary formula spending share per pupil |
|---|
Staffordshire | 2209 | 2876 |
| |
Tower Hamlets | 3817 | 4748 |
City of London | 3740 | 4627 |
Isles of Scilly | 3545 | 4239 |
Hackney | 3522 | 4478 |
Westminster | 3467 | 4327 |
Islington | 3424 | 4410 |
Lambeth | 3401 | 4423 |
Camden | 3366 | 4181 |
Southwark | 3342 | 4436 |
Hammersmith and Fulharn | 3254 | 4184 |
Lewisham | 3173 | 4206 |
Greenwich | 3166 | 4085 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 3122 | 3989 |
Wandsworth | 3100 | 4118 |
Newham | 3085 | 3808 |
Brent | 2992 | 3770 |
Haringey | 2967 | 3756 |
Ealing | 2914 | 3676 |
Hounslow | 2868 | 3597 |
Slough | 2773 | 3539 |
Waltham Forest | 2766 | 3592 |
Harrow | 2749 | 3464 |
Barnet | 2703 | 3477 |
Enfield | 2677 | 3416 |
Manchester | 2656 | 3426 |
Hillingdon | 2655 | 3426 |
Merton | 2653 | 3504 |
Redbridge | 2650 | 3341 |
Birmingham | 2631 | 3362 |
Barking and Dagenham | 2626 | 3427 |
Leicester | 2589 | 3139 |
Luton | 2574 | 3337 |
Reading | 2569 | 3404 |
Croydon | 2544 | 3416 |
Bradford | 2542 | 3240 |
Kingston upon Thames | 2534 | 3321 |
Nottingham City | 2526 | 3270 |
Sandwell | 2518 | 3233 |
Blackburn | 2513 | 3126 |
Liverpool | 2504 | 3236 |
Peterborough | 2503 | 3206 |
Sutton | 2494 | 3332 |
West Berkshire | 2489 | 3200 |
Knowsley | 2484 | 3198 |
Oldham | 2481 | 3178 |
Wolverhampton | 2476 | 3212 |
Richmond upon Thames | 2456 | 3295 |
Windsor & Maidenhead | 2455 | 3222 |
Middlesbrough | 2455 | 3172 |
Milton Keynes | 2453 | 3199 |
Rochdale | 2447 | 3176 |
Surrey | 2438 | 3222 |
Walsall | 2432 | 3158 |
Wokingham | 2425 | 3200 |
Southampton | 2421 | 3154 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 2418 | 3117 |
Isle of Wight Council | 2418 | 3085 |
Bracknell Forest | 2416 | 3222 |
City of Kingston-upon-Hull | 2408 | 3127 |
Salford | 2406 | 3135 |
Buckinghamshire | 2405 | 3123 |
Coventry | 2405 | 3102 |
Bexley | 2400 | 3186 |
Thurrock | 2399 | 3161 |
Halton | 2399 | 3135 |
Kirklees | 2399 | 3070 |
Oxfordshire | 2396 | 3087 |
Bolton | 2392 | 3074 |
City of Bristol | 2382 | 3153 |
Stoke on Trent | 2377 | 3095 |
Hertfordshire | 2370 | 3129 |
Hartlepool | 2366 | 3074 |
Herefordshire | 2362 | 2862 |
Portsmouth | 2361 | 3108 |
Havering | 2358 | 3162 |
Derby | 2358 | 3071 |
Bromley | 2356 | 3169 |
Doncaster | 2353 | 3012 |
Calderdale | 2352 | 3053 |
South Tyneside | 2347 | 3066 |
Cambridgeshire | 2345 | 2963 |
Cornwall | 2341 | 2935 |
Bedfordshire | 2340 | 3022 |
Wiltshire | 2338 | 2912 |
Lincolnshire | 2337 | 2893 |
Tameside | 2336 | 3063 |
Redcar and Cleveland | 2336 | 3026 |
Sheffield | 2334 | 3056 |
Cumbria | 2330 | 2896 |
Devon | 2326 | 2883 |
North Yorkshire | 2326 | 2836 |
North Lincolnshire | 2324 | 2941 |
Sunderland | 2323 | 3042 |
Wirral | 2322 | 3051 |
Blackpool | 2322 | 3046 |
Durham | 2322 | 2981 |
Norfolk | 2322 | 2905 |
Rutland | 2321 | 2826 |
Northumberland | 2320 | 2913 |
North East Lincolnshire | 2319 | 3012 |
Rotherham | 2313 | 3014 |
Shropshire | 2313 | 2844 |
Gateshead | 2309 | 3024 |
Leeds | 2309 | 3024 |
Dudley | 2306 | 3050 |
The Wrekin | 2306 | 2988 |
Barnsley | 2305 | 3011 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 2300 | 3003 |
Darlington | 2299 | 2985 |
St Helens | 2297 | 3018 |
Southend | 2293 | 3017 |
Northamptonshire | 2293 | 2972 |
Lancashire | 2293 | 2959 |
Warwickshire | 2291 | 2947 |
Brighton and Hove | 2284 | 3016 |
Kent | 2282 | 2968 |
Wakefield | 2280 | 2999 |
Bury | 2276 | 3013 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 2274 | 2858 |
West Sussex | 2273 | 2975 |
Essex | 2272 | 2967 |
Plymouth | 2271 | 2992 |
Swindon | 2266 | 2970 |
Somerset | 2266 | 2861 |
Gloucestershire | 2263 | 2910 |
East Sussex | 2262 | 2923 |
Torbay | 2261 | 2981 |
Hampshire | 2261 | 2949 |
Trafford | 2260 | 3001 |
North Tyneside | 2260 | 2981 |
Sefton | 2259 | 2988 |
Wigan | 2258 | 2994 |
Medway | 2258 | 2976 |
Suffolk | 2254 | 2870 |
Dorset | 2243 | 2844 |
Cheshire | 2242 | 2919 |
Nottinghamshire | 2238 | 2917 |
North Somerset | 2236 | 2931 |
Derbyshire | 2236 | 2894 |
Solihull | 2231 | 2952 |
Bournemouth | 2228 | 2940 |
Bath & North East Somerset | 2227 | 2936 |
South Gloucestershire | 2227 | 2914 |
Stockport | 2216 | 2948 |
Warrington | 2207 | 2940 |
Worcestershire | 2195 | 2869 |
Leicestershire | 2186 | 2827 |
York | 2182 | 2881 |
Poole | 2162 | 2885 |
