Local Authority Budgeted Expenditure on Schools, 2011-12

The key points from the latest bulletin are:

• Total net revenue expenditure for education is budgeted to be £2,171 million, a decrease of 0.4% over the previous year.
• Gross schools expenditure is budgeted to be £2,475 million, an increase of 0.7% over the previous year.
• Gross schools expenditure per pupil is budgeted to be £5,462, a year-on-year increase of 1.0% or £53.  This can be broken down into: £4,162 per pupil delegated to schools and £1,299 per pupil retained for centrally funded school services.
• The funding delegated to schools is budgeted to be £1,886 million.  The amount of funding that local authorities delegate directly to schools ranges between 66% and 84% of overall gross schools budgeted expenditure.
• 76% of the total gross schools budgeted expenditure is delegated directly to schools.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3519
E-mail: stats.finance@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

June 2012 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)