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News Release
1st February 2007STAFFORDSHIRE SCHOOL FUNDING NEAR BOTTOM"Staffordshire schools have lost out again compared with other local education authorities with the funding they will receive from the Government for 2007-08" says Michael Fabricant. "Figures I have just obtained from the Department of Education reveal that out of 149 local education authorities in England, Staffordshire's funding ranks 132nd - just 17th from the very bottom. "When Staffordshire Labour MPs were campaigning for election back in 1997, they promised that a Labour Government would fund Staffordshire school students the same as anywhere else within a year of coming to office. Ten years later, a school in the City of London will receive £7,090 per pupil, a school in Surrey will receive £3,800 per pupil, yet our schools in Staffordshire will only receive £3,597 per pupil. So for a typical school of 800 pupils, a school in Surrey will £162,400 more than a similar school in Staffordshire while a school in the City of London will receive a staggering £2,794,400 more. Can this be fair?" Michael asks.
A table showing school funding per pupil for each local education authority in England for 2007-08 is shown below. | 2007-08 Allocations | rank | LEA | 2007-08
Guaranteed per
pupil unit of
funding (£) | | ENGLAND | 3,888.20 | 1 | City of London | 7,089.98 | 2 | Tower Hamlets | 6,028.42 | 3 | Camden | 5,922.61 | 4 | Hackney | 5,906.04 | 5 | Lambeth | 5,596.25 | 6 | Islington | 5,555.20 | 7 | Kensington and Chelsea | 5,532.73 | 8 | Southwark | 5,525.05 | 9 | Hammersmith and Fulham | 5,413.02 | 10 | Lewisham | 5,335.09 | 11 | Westminster | 5,203.08 | 12 | Greenwich | 5,120.20 | 13 | Wandsworth | 4,891.66 | 14 | Newham | 4,860.15 | 15 | Haringey | 4,790.71 | 16 | Brent | 4,663.30 | 17 | Ealing | 4,634.20 | 18 | Hounslow | 4,457.19 | 19 | Waltham Forest | 4,399.07 | 20 | Manchester | 4,389.95 | 21 | Barking and Dagenham | 4,378.90 | 22 | Barnet | 4,344.26 | 23 | Nottingham | 4,321.15 | 24 | Harrow | 4,310.75 | 25 | Birmingham | 4,270.47 | 26 | Merton | 4,270.05 | 27 | Enfield | 4,256.52 | 28 | Slough | 4,202.65 | 29 | Bristol, City of | 4,190.37 | 30 | Hillingdon | 4,179.20 | 31 | Liverpool | 4,136.36 | 32 | Salford | 4,135.37 | 33 | Richmond upon Thames | 4,119.38 | 34 | Blackburn with Darwen | 4,082.58 | 35 | Croydon | 4,079.87 | 36 | Luton | 4,077.60 | 37 | Reading | 4,069.04 | 38 | Kingston upon Thames | 4,068.61 | 39 | Sutton | 4,065.90 | 40 | Halton | 4,053.81 | 41 | Knowsley | 4,038.32 | 42 | Sandwell | 4,035.40 | 43 | Redbridge | 4,027.42 | 44 | Middlesbrough | 4,013.08 | 45 | Rochdale | 4,000.14 | 46 | Kingston Upon Hull, City of | 3,998.54 | 47 | Leicester | 3,971.83 | 48 | Bexley | 3,969.90 | 49 | North East Lincolnshire | 3,966.14 | 50 | Havering | 3,961.84 | 51 | Wolverhampton | 3,960.76 | 52 | Thurrock | 3,958.24 | 53 | Southampton | 3,947.63 | 54 | Oldham | 3,943.87 | 55 | Coventry | 3,942.35 | 56 | Brighton and Hove | 3,935.62 | 57 | Peterborough | 3,929.32 | 58 | South Tyneside | 3,922.81 | 59 | Bradford | 3,919.14 | 60 | Newcastle upon Tyne | 3,915.79 | 61 | Stoke-on-Trent | 3,903.85 | 62 | Portsmouth | 3,893.05 | 63 | Isle of Wight | 3,882.55 | 64 | Rotherham | 3,878.58 | 65 | Medway | 3,868.00 | 66 | Milton Keynes | 3,864.71 | 67 | Hartlepool | 3,863.50 | 68 | Windsor and Maidenhead | 3,863.14 | 69 | Southend-on-Sea | 3,860.30 | 70 | Walsall | 3,843.09 | 71 | Bracknell Forest | 3,834.96 | 72 | East Sussex | 3,831.15 | 73 | Redcar and Cleveland | 3,825.37 | 74 | Sunderland | 3,823.09 | 75 | Gateshead | 3,822.00 | 76 | Blackpool | 3,818.29 | 77 | Durham | 3,817.71 | 78 | Tameside | 3,817.62 | 79 | Derby | 3,814.28 | 80 | St Helens | 3,813.19 | 81 | Bolton | 3,810.09 | 82 | West Berkshire | 3,808.74 | 83 | Surrey | 3,800.87 | 84 | Stockton-on-Tees | 3,796.72 | 85 | Dudley | 3,785.70 | 86 | Wigan | 3,784.33 | 87 | Darlington | 3,781.94 | 88 | Kirklees | 3,781.45 | 89 | Doncaster | 3,778.33 | 90 | Sheffield | 3,778.19 | 91 | Bromley | 3,775.05 | 92 | Wirral | 3,765.19 | 93 | Lancashire | 3,765.17 | 94 | Leeds | 3,764.20 | 95 | Bury | 3,763.34 | 96 | Torbay | 3,760.05 | 97 | Kent | 3,755.56 | 98 | Sefton | 3,754.68 | 99 | Essex | 3,752.36 | 100 | Calderdale | 3,750.28 | 101 | Telford and Wrekin | 3,749.73 | 102 | Rutland | 3,735.33 | 103 | Hertfordshire | 3,730.25 | 104 | Plymouth | 3,728.28 | 105 | Buckinghamshire | 3,728.01 | 106 | Wakefield | 3,719.66 | 107 | Bath and North East Somerset | 3,714.67 | 108 | West Sussex | 3,711.30 | 109 | Stockport | 3,706.45 | 110 | Oxfordshire | 3,704.32 | 111 | Cheshire | 3,692.33 | 112 | Barnsley | 3,688.44 | 113 | Nottinghamshire | 3,682.41 | 114 | North Tyneside | 3,676.47 | 115 | North Yorkshire | 3,675.61 | 116 | Cumbria | 3,671.09 | 117 | Bournemouth | 3,665.38 | 118 | North Lincolnshire | 3,662.61 | 119 | Wokingham | 3,659.80 | 120 | Hampshire | 3,658.60 | 121 | Trafford | 3,652.72 | 122 | Derbyshire | 3,648.72 | 123 | Norfolk | 3,648.44 | 124 | Lincolnshire | 3,636.26 | 125 | Dorset | 3,634.80 | 126 | Bedfordshire | 3,632.61 | 127 | Warrington | 3,631.24 | 128 | Cambridgeshire | 3,622.90 | 129 | Warwickshire | 3,620.80 | 130 | York | 3,613.87 | 131 | Northamptonshire | 3,602.43 | 132 | Staffordshire | 3,597.57 | 133 | Swindon | 3,596.89 | 134 | Suffolk | 3,591.24 | 135 | Cornwall | 3,585.41 | 136 | Somerset | 3,582.05 | 137 | North Somerset | 3,574.26 | 138 | Gloucestershire | 3,573.84 | 139 | Poole | 3,567.77 | 140 | Solihull | 3,556.48 | 141 | Wiltshire | 3,553.70 | 142 | Worcestershire | 3,552.58 | 143 | Northumberland | 3,552.17 | 144 | Devon | 3,551.33 | 145 | Shropshire | 3,550.86 | 146 | East Riding of Yorkshire | 3,534.93 | 147 | Herefordshire | 3,522.64 | 148 | South Gloucestershire | 3,489.30 | 149 | Leicestershire | 3,429.21 | | | | | METROPOLITAN AUTHORITITES | 3,902 | | UNTIARY AUTHORITIES | 3,843 | | UPPER TIER AUTHORITIES | 3,667 | | | | | East of England | 3,721 | | East Midlands | 3,684 | | North East | 3,800 | | North West | 3,854 | | South East | 3,777 | | South West | 3,633 | | West Midlands | 3,831 | | Yorkshire and the Humber | 3,770 |
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