Regulation 3 Prescribed form of, and information to be contained in, budget statements

(1)

A budget statement shall be prepared in four parts, and shall contain the information prescribed for the purposes of section 52(1) of the 1998 Act, as follows—

(a)

Part 1 shall be in the form prescribed in Schedule 1 and shall contain the information, relating to the authority’s planned expenditure for the financial year to which the budget statement relates, specified in the notes to Part 1 in Schedule 1;

(b)

Part 2 shall be in the form prescribed in Schedule 2 and shall contain the information, with respect to the authority’s planned expenditure for each school for the financial year to which the budget statement relates, specified in the notes to Part 2 in Schedule 2;

(c)

Part 3 shall be in the form prescribed in Schedule 3 and shall contain the information with respect to the authority’s allocation formula specified in the notes to Part 3 in Schedule 3; and

(d)

Part 4 shall contain the information with respect to the budget share of each school for the financial year to which the budget statement relates specified in Schedule 4.

(2)

The following information must appear at the top of each of Parts 1 to 4 of a budget statement—

(a)

the financial year to which the budget statement relates;

(b)

the authority’s name;

(c)

the authority’s LEA number;

(d)

E-mail address;

(e)

the name of a person who can deal with queries in relation to the completed form;

(f)

that person’s telephone number;

(g)

the version number; and

(h)

the date that the form was completed.

(3)

Where a person is carrying out functions on behalf of an authority then the authority shall include information in Parts 1 to 4 of the budget statement as if expenditure by that person in carrying out those functions were expenditure by the authority.