STAFFORDSHIRE 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 |
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 |