Education written question – answered at on 20 December 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of expenditure on all maintained schools was spent on (a) head teachers and other teaching staff, (b) classroom assistants, (c) other staff, (d) other current (revenue) spending and (e) capital spending in (i) 1997 and (ii) the latest year for which figures are available.
The available information on what proportion of expenditure on all maintained schools was spent on (a) head teachers and other teaching staff, (b) classroom assistants, (c)other staff, (d) other current (revenue) spending and (e) capital spending in (i) 1997 and (ii) the latest year for which figures are available is contained within the following tables:
Table 1: (a) to (d)—Revenue expenditure on teaching staff and all other categories in maintained schools for 1996-97 and 2009-10 | ||||
1996-97 | 2009-10 | |||
£000 | Percentage | £000 | Percentage | |
Teaching staff(1) | 9,304,145 | 618 | 18,301,482 | 51.8 |
Education support staff(2) | 964,266 | 6.4 | 4,932,966 | 14.0 |
Other staff(3) | 1,132,196 | 7.5 | 3,260,570 | 9.2 |
Other current (revenue) spending(4) | 3,656,733 | 24.3 | 8,838,958 | 25.0 |
Total gross expenditure | 15,057,340 | 100.0 | 35,333,976 | 100.0 |
(1) Includes teachers employed directly by the school, including supernumerary/peripatetic teachers on short-term contracts and supply teaching staff who are covering curriculum release, long term absence, sickness absence and training absence. Relates to all contracted full time and part time teachers paid within the scope of the ‘The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 2009’ and includes expenditure on salaries and wages consisting of gross pay, including bonus and allowances, maternity pay and the employer's contributions to national insurance and superannuation. Also includes threshold payments and other payments relating to teacher reforms. Expenditure on supply teachers not employed directly from the school (i.e. paid via an agency or another third party) is also included. Does not include expenditure on teaching staff employed centrally by the local authority. (2) Salaries and wages of support staff employed directly by the school in support of students' learning: child care staff, classroom assistants/learning support assistants, exam invigilators, foreign language assistants, librarians, nursery assistants, pianists, residential child care officers at a residential special school, supply education support staff, workshop and technology technicians, expenditure on salaries and wages consisting of gross pay, including of bonus and allowances, maternity pay and the employer's contributions to national insurance and superannuation, educational welfare officers. Education support staff not employed directly by the school are excluded from education support staff totals. (3) 1996-97 only includes expenditure on caretakers, cleaners, maintenance staff, groundsmen, porters, messengers, security staff, car park attendants, escorts and other persons who carry out premises related work and any other staff not included, administrative and clerical staff and any other staff not covered by footnotes 1, 2 or 3. 2009-10 includes all spend on staff employed directly by the school in support of students' learning not previously included in teaching staff and education support staff. Staff not employed directly by the school are excluded from these totals. (4) Includes all other spend such as those on running expenses, premises related expenditure, supply and services expenditure, transport expenditure, third party payments and transfer payments, in maintained schools in England. Spend on centrally retained expenses is not included in these totals. Notes: 1. Includes all local authority maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools. 2.( )1999-2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RO1 form collected by the ODPM to the Section 52 form from the DFES 3. Cash terms figures (£000). The data are taken from the local authorities Section 251 Outturn statement for 2009-10. 4. The above data used are at 31 March 2011. These data will not match the information published on 6 January 2011 because it was amended by the local authorities. |
Table 2: (e): Capital spending on schools in 1996-97 and 2010-11 | ||
£ billion | ||
1996-97 | 2010-11 | |
Capital expenditure | 0.6 | 6.3 |
Notes: 1. Capital expenditure includes supported borrowing that was allocated to local authorities to fund capital investment in schools. 2. Capital expenditure does not include PFI. |
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