{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-and-early-years-finance-england-regulations-2025/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-and-early-years-finance-england-regulations-2025/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/42",
  "legislation_title": "The School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-and-early-years-finance-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Lump sums for primary and secondary schools",
  "text": "(1) In determining budget shares for primary and secondary schools (other than special schools, pupil referral units and nursery schools), excluding any amount to be allocated in respect of nursery classes or community early years provision in those schools, a local authority must ascertain and take into account in its formula the following factors.\n(2) A single sum for primary schools—\n(a) other than middle schools, of an equal amount to be given to each school; and\n(b) which are middle schools, of an amount to be calculated per school in accordance with the middle school single sum formula.\n(3) A single sum for secondary schools—\n(a) other than middle schools, of an equal amount to be given to each school; and\n(b) which are middle schools, of an amount to be calculated per school in accordance with the middle school single sum formula.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 17.2.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Middle school” has the meaning given by section 5(3) of the 1996 Act, by virtue of section 142(8) of the 1998 Act, which provides that (in the absence of a different meaning) the 1998 Act is to be construed as one with the 1996 Act. Section 5(3) was substituted by paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to, the 2006 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/42/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:41.279816+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}