Per capita spend on schools

NI Assembly - Written Answers for Questions - Friday 26th March 2010

Department of Education

Per Capita Spend on Schools

Mr J Shannon asked the Minister of Education how much her Department has spent, per capita, on (i) Irish-medium primary schools; (ii) preparatory departments of grammar schools; (iii) controlled primary schools; and (iv) maintained primary schools, in each of the last three years.

(AQW 5359/10)

The latest full financial year for which this data is available is 2008/09. The amount of per capita delegated and non-delegated recurrent expenditure for each of the financial years 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09 is shown in the table below.

	Delegated and Non-Delegated Expenditure Per Capita (£)
	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09
Irish Medium Primary Schools	3,306	3,575	3,950
Controlled Primary Schools	3,046	3,288	3,577
Maintained Primary Schools	3,036	3,261	3,458
Preparatory Department of Grammar	816	871	902

Footnotes:

1. Expenditure information in relation to Irish-medium Units, attached to English-medium host schools has not been provided as it is not possible to disaggregate the expenditure of the Unit from the host school.
2. Expenditure information in relation to the preparatory departments attached to three Controlled Grammar Schools has not been included as the SEELB has advised that it is not possible to disaggregate the expenditure of the preparatory departments from the host grammar schools. The number of pupils attending these three preparatory departments has not therefore been included in the per capita calculations for the three years listed in table above.

Source - http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/qanda/2007mandate/writtenans/2009/100326.htm#4