Explanatory note

These Regulations replace the Education (Outturn Statements) (Wales) Regulations 2000. They specify the information about local education authorities' (LEAs) expenditure on education which must be contained in a statement (referred to in the regulations as an “outturn statement”) which each LEA is required to prepare after the end of each financial year under section 52(2) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (regulation 5).

The Regulations also specify the form which outturn statements must take (regulation 4(1) and (2)) and the manner of, and time for, publication of such statements (regulations 6-8).

There are two main changes. First, an outturn statement is no longer to be prepared in 2 parts. The reason for this change is that there is no longer a requirement in the regulations prescribing the content of budget statements for such statements to include LEA — level information — see the Education (Budget Statements) (Wales) Regulations 2002. As a consequence, what used to be Part I of the outturn statement, which dealt with actual expenditure at LEA level, is no longer appropriate. Secondly, the regulations now provide for outturn statements to be prepared in both Welsh and English.

The 2000 Regulations are revoked (regulation 3).