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The table below shows England's local education authorities ranked according to how much they are spending per pupil on core administration, from the most down to the least.

The columns show, from left to right,:

• what percentage of each authority's Local Schools Budget is being delegated to schools this year
• the amount delegated, in £ per pupil
• the amount retained per pupil by the LEA for core administration, including the costs of the chief education officer and the education committee, and various planning and regulatory functions.

Note: There are 150 local education authorities. The figures supplied by the Department for Education exclude the City of London and the Isles of Scilly because they are so small. They are, however, included in the England averages shown in the table.

Local education authority	% of LSB	Funding £	Admin £
England Averages	84.2%	2,373	47
Redbridge	85.9%	2,512	73
Wandsworth	83.4%	3,080	73
Harrow	83.1%	2,555	73
Islington	82.2%	3,055	73
Lambeth	81.4%	3,219	73
Haringey	81.2%	2,892	73
Hounslow	84.4%	2,667	70
Kensington and Chelsea	81.9%	3,554	67
Richmond upon Thames	81.4%	2,377	67
Tower Hamlets	86.5%	3,595	66
Camden	81.1%	3,323	66
Southwark	85.2%	3,183	65
Barking and Dagenham	82.5%	2,587	65
Northumberland	81.3%	2,177	65
Sutton	84.8%	2,466	63
Hartlepool	84.3%	2,251	63
Greenwich	84.1%	3,114	63
Windsor and Maidenhead	83.7%	2,386	63
Knowsley	82.8%	2,462	63
Bracknell Forest	82.3%	2,236	63
Somerset	84.8%	2,272	62
East Sussex	81.9%	2,337	62
Portsmouth	86.3%	2,547	61
Lewisham	86.3%	3,098	61
Newcastle upon Tyne	86.2%	2,408	61
Hackney	83.4%	3,283	61
St. Helens	84.0%	2,275	60
Bromley	83.3%	2,333	60
Merton	82.8%	2,546	60
Birmingham	87.4%	2,718	59
Redcar and Cleveland	86.6%	2,285	59
Croydon	84.9%	2,561	59
Wokingham	84.1%	2,282	59
Calderdale	84.1%	2,238	59
Bexley	83.9%	2,265	59
Westminster	81.0%	3,288	59
Hammersmith and Fulham	85.9%	3,239	58
Surrey	83.8%	2,294	58
Brighton and Hove	81.0%	2,352	58
Southampton	86.1%	2,502	57
South Tyneside	83.3%	2,250	57
Leicester	80.6%	2,338	57
Barnet	86.7%	2,635	56
Solihull	86.0%	2,164	56
Bath & North East Somerset	84.2%	2,373	56
Thurrock	83.8%	2,390	56
Blackburn with Darwen	82.6%	2,469	56
Bury	84.6%	2,169	55
Rutland	84.4%	2,401	55
East Riding of Yorkshire	82.5%	2,242	55
Halton	86.7%	2,473	54
Liverpool	86.4%	2,631	54
Peterborough	86.0%	2,474	54
Sandwell	83.2%	2,339	54
North Lincolnshire	81.7%	2,261	54
Brent	88.0%	2,823	53
Rochdale	83.7%	2,216	53
North Somerset	82.3%	2,171	53
Manchester	81.8%	2,625	53
Torbay	81.5%	2,232	53
Slough	86.7%	2,644	52
Medway	84.7%	2,360	52
York	84.3%	2,256	52
Wolverhampton	83.8%	2,389	52
Gateshead	83.4%	2,311	52
Newham	83.2%	2,678	52
Devon	80.5%	2,146	52
Leeds	86.2%	2,369	51
Bournemouth	85.0%	2,354	51
Waltham Forest	84.1%	2,896	51
Nottingham	83.8%	2,541	51
Worcestershire	83.2%	2,167	51
South Gloucestershire	82.8%	2,190	51
Herefordshire	81.2%	2,192	51
Havering	87.1%	2,454	50
Luton	84.5%	2,510	50
North Tyneside	81.9%	2,192	50
Blackpool	81.5%	2,220	50
Wigan	87.3%	2,349	49
Rotherham	87.0%	2,367	49
Stockton-on-Tees	85.7%	2,352	49
North East Lincolnshire	85.3%	2,377	49
West Sussex	83.4%	2,293	49
West Berkshire	86.5%	2,376	48
Poole	85.9%	2,283	48
Middlesbrough	84.5%	2,361	48
Enfield	83.5%	2,602	48
Kirklees	86.7%	2,358	47
Tameside	84.6%	2,218	47
Leicestershire	84.2%	2,186	47
Milton Keynes	83.6%	2,285	47
Doncaster	83.0%	2,298	47
Ealing	81.9%	2,616	47
Stoke-on-Trent	85.9%	2,246	46
Reading	84.3%	2,420	46
Plymouth	83.8%	2,331	46
Coventry	83.8%	2,445	46
Cornwall	79.8%	2,141	46
Salford	86.0%	2,511	45
Wirral	82.8%	2,279	45
Kingston upon Thames	84.3%	2,386	44
Derby	83.0%	2,242	44
Cambridgeshire	81.7%	2,141	44
Southend-on-Sea	89.8%	2,587	43
Kent	83.2%	2,339	43
City of Kingston Upon Hull	83.1%	2,340	43
Dorset	80.2%	2,177	43
Sheffield	83.9%	2,318	42
Hillingdon	87.1%	2,557	41
Nottinghamshire	86.0%	2,254	41
Derbyshire	85.5%	2,170	41
Sunderland	85.5%	2,271	41
City of Bristol	85.2%	2,532	41
Buckinghamshire	80.5%	2,143	41
Dudley	86.0%	2,255	40
Swindon	85.8%	2,233	40
Telford & Wrekin	84.1%	2,284	40
Sefton	86.4%	2,399	39
Suffolk	85.4%	2,325	39
Norfolk	85.0%	2,305	39
Isle of Wight	83.1%	2,435	39
Trafford	83.1%	2,220	39
Oldham	86.2%	2,409	38
Bolton	84.2%	2,258	38
Durham	82.3%	2,278	38
Northamptonshire	87.2%	2,320	37
Hampshire	85.5%	2,280	37
Staffordshire	84.9%	2,120	37
Gloucestershire	84.2%	2,181	37
Shropshire	83.5%	2,197	37
Darlington	82.6%	2,149	37
Bedfordshire	85.0%	2,354	36
Lancashire	81.4%	2,235	35
Barnsley	82.3%	2,158	34
Warrington	86.4%	2,219	33
Walsall	85.9%	2,300	33
Cumbria	85.6%	2,336	33
Warwickshire	85.3%	2,266	33
Cheshire	84.4%	2,239	33
North Yorkshire	83.8%	2,339	33
Wiltshire	83.8%	2,185	32
Bradford	83.7%	2,363	31
Wakefield	82.3%	2,169	30
Oxfordshire	84.6%	2,286	29
Stockport	82.7%	2,140	29
Hertfordshire	84.7%	2,338	28
Essex	84.4%	2,371	27
Lincolnshire	87.9%	2,279	21
England Averages	84.2%	2,373	47