You asked
Please provide any data you hold on local authority education spending. Ideally from 1980s to present.
We said
Thank you for your request.
Unfortunately we do not hold or publish data on local authority education spending. We would recommend referring to the following spending data;
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data
There are also some accompanying earlier datasets available at the National Archives. Should you have further queries, please contact the Department for Education who may be able to assist.