Local Government Act 1987

Block grant: education

2Adjustments between England and Wales.

(1)Schedule 10 to the 1980 Act (block grant adjustment for education) shall be amended as follows—

(a)in paragraphs 1(2), (3)(a) and (b) and (4) for “education expenditure” there shall be substituted “qualifying education expenditure”,

(b)in paragraph 1(3)(a) and (b) the words “(after taking account of recoupment)” shall be omitted, and

(c)paragraph 3(4) shall be omitted.

(2)In that Schedule the following shall be substituted for paragraph 3(3)—

“(3)References to the qualifying education expenditure for a year are to the aggregate of the following amounts of expenditure in connection with further education of an advanced character, including the training of teachers, namely—

(a)such amount of expenditure to which paragraph 5 below applies as the Secretary of State estimates has been or will be incurred for the year by all local authorities in England and Wales, and

(b)such amounts of expenditure to which paragraph 6 below applies as are, or he estimates will be, specified for the year by or under regulations made under paragraph 6(1)(a) and (b) below.

(3A)References to the qualifying education expenditure for a year of local authorities in England or Wales (as the case may be) are to such of the qualifying education expenditure for the year as the Secretary of State estimates has been or will be incurred for the year by all local authorities in England or Wales (as the case may be).”

(3)Subsections (1) and (2) above shall have effect in relation to the year beginning in 1988 and subsequent years.

(4)In relation to the year beginning in 1986 and to that beginning in 1987—

(a)after the passing of this Act Part I of Schedule 10 to the 1980 Act shall have effect with the amendments mentioned in subsections (1) and (2) above, and

(b)anything done (including an adjustment made) after the passing of this Act under that Part shall be done by reference to that Part with those amendments.

(5)In this section “the 1980 Act” means the [1980 c. 65.] Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 and “year” has the same meaning as in Part VI of that Act.

3Adjustments for advanced further education.

(1)When the Secretary of State pays 1987 block grant to an English local education authority he may make an adjustment designed to conclude the course of action adopted by him before the passing of this Act as regards 1981 block grant in purported compliance with paragraph 6 of Schedule 10 to the 1980 Act and regulations under that paragraph.

(2)Any adjustment under subsection (1) above shall be made by a method determined by the Secretary of State.

(3)Any method determined under subsection (2) above shall be determined in accordance with principles to be applied to all English local education authorities.

(4)Before he determines any method under subsection (2) above the Secretary of State shall consult such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned and any local education authority with whom consultation appears to him to be desirable.

(5)References in this section to 1981 block grant and 1987 block grant are respectively to block grant for the year beginning in 1981 and block grant for the year beginning in 1987.

(6)In this section “the 1980 Act” means the [1980 c. 65.] Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, “local authority” means any body which is a local authority for the purposes of Part VI of that Act, and “year” has the same meaning as in that Part.

(7)This section shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.