The outturn statement is intended to:
- provide schools, parents and others with an interest in education with details about schools and LA funding and expenditure;
- provide data for the Departmental Annual Report (DAR);
- inform policy making;
- inform the Treasury for monitoring purposes;
- inform Parliament in its role of monitoring the Department’s accountability for public funds.
- inform MPs enabling them to ask about school and authority expenditure via the mechanisms of Parliamentary Questions or through the Education Select Committee.
All statements are prepared to a common format and the out turn statement must be presented in four parts for the prescribed period in the order specified.
