UK School-Market Dataset

Table 16: EPC School Book Survey 2003
Amount spent by subject: estimate of total in £s (Primary)
This table is compiled by taking the mean total spend in table 15 and multiplying it by the number of schools in table 1

PRIMARY	England (LEA)	Wales	England (IND)	Scotland	N. Ireland	Totals
Number of schools	17,985	1,624	1,857	2,271	920	24657
English	£24,873,255	£1,432,368	£2,141,121	£2,243,748	£1,909,000	£32,599,492
Maths	£8,830,635	£797,384	£1,598,877	£1,753,212	£1,003,720	£13,983,828
Science	£5,233,635	£449,848	£1,374,180	£858,438	£328,440	£8,244,541
Technology/Home Economics	£4,226,475	£617,120	£586,812	£272,520	£198,720	£5,901,647
IT/Computing	£4,226,475	£617,120	£586,812	£347,463	£331,200	£6,109,070
Modern Languages	£593,505	£99,064	£820,794	£190,764	£220,800	£1,924,927
History	£3,273,270	£272,832	£913,644	£408,780	£172,960	£5,041,486
Geography	£3,093,420	£237,104	£861,648	£327,024	£184,000	£4,703,196
RE/Moral Education	£2,859,615	£224,112	£612,810	£619,983	£190,440	£4,506,960
Art	£1,924,395	£165,648	£369,543	£156,699	£71,760	£2,688,045
Music	£1,636,635	£181,888	£733,515	£163,512	£80,960	£2,796,510
Physical Education	£1,942,380	£175,392	£200,556	£68,130	£49,680	£2,436,138
Library	£14,765,685	£610,624	£2,980,485	£1,140,042	£216,200	£19,713,036
Totals	£77,479,380	£5,880,504	£13,780,797	£8,550,315	£4,957,880	£110,648,876
Total spend from totals estimate	£60,807,285	£4,243,512	£14,573,736	£7,142,295	£5,498,840	£92,265,668

Source: Schoolbook Spending in the UK 2002/2003 (November 2003) - page 6 and 14

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