Regulation 11 Calculation of an amount in respect of the provision of school meals.

Subject to regulations 14 (apportionment) and 20 (schools becoming grant-maintained in the financial year in question pursuant to proposals published under section 49 of the 1993 Act), the funding authority shall determine an amount in respect of the provision of school meals calculated by the application of the following formula—

where

• M is the number of registered pupils in receipt of free school meals at the school;

• F is the total of the local education authority’s planned expenditure for the financial year in question in providing meals to pupils in receipt of free school meals at relevant schools;

• P is the number of registered pupils in receipt of free school meals at relevant schools;

• S is the number of registered pupils at the school who bought meals at the school on a date in the preceding financial year determined by the funding authority;

• G is the total of the local education authority’s planned expenditure for the financial year in question on school meals, other than free school meals, at relevant schools and excluding expenditure to be met from any charges for such meals; and

• B is the number of registered pupils at relevant schools who bought meals at those schools on a date in the preceding financial year determined by the funding authority.

In paragraph (1)—

• “number of registered pupils” means the number of pupils on a school’s register on a date determined by the funding authority;

• “planned expenditure” means the initial amount appropriated by the local education authority for meeting expenditure at all relevant schools excluding any such expenditure falling within their aggregated budget; and

• “relevant schools” means all primary or all secondary schools or all special schools maintained or formerly maintained by the authority required to be covered by a statement for the year under section 42 of the 1988 Act^f1, according as to whether the school is a primary school, a secondary school or a special school.