Table 26: Local authority expenditure (1) on school meals, by sector, 2005-06
Calculation of expenditure per meal using these figures does not represent the average cost for the food components of school meals. Please read the footnote below before using information in this table.
| primary | secondary | special |
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number | spend | number | spend | number | spend |
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of meals | (£000) | of meals | (£000) | of meals | (£000) |
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Aberdeen City | 1,249,108 | 842 | 651,761 | 680 | - | - |
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Aberdeenshire | 1,776,967 | 1,271 | 1,072,008 | 1,373 | 28,745 | 34 |
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Angus | 619,559 | 1,136 | 428,027 | 903 | - | - |
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Argyll & Bute | 620,781 | 1,606 | 581,148 | 900 | 1,860 | 48 |
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Clackmannanshire | 279,530 | 512 | 310,519 | 390 | 11,325 | 24 |
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Dumfries & Galloway | 654,722 | 1,937 | 135,972 | 371 | 2,870 | 6 |
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Dundee City | 754,166 | 1,502 | 393,340 | 736 | 27,769 | 82 |
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East Ayrshire | 788,163 | 1,715 | 574,289 | 1,054 | 38,068 | 108 |
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East Dunbartonshire | 716,376 | 1,165 | 648,234 | 1,102 | 24,372 | 60 |
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East Lothian | 491,214 | 655 | 253,195 | 463 | - | - |
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East Renfrewshire | 532,029 | 1,257 | 579,411 | 1,069 | 18,800 | 75 |
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Edinburgh, City of | 1,726,122 | 2,746 | 759,430 | 1,207 | 102,410 | 164 |
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Eilean Siar | 235,220 | 790 | 158,650 | 581 | - | - |
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Falkirk | 1,361,120 | 2,260 | 823,080 | 1,291 | 42,940 | 136 |
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Fife | 2,314,722 | 5,125 | 1,800,645 | 3,987 | 36,140 | 80 |
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Glasgow City | 4,624,050 | 7,165 | 2,749,766 | 2,699 | 272,881 | 223 |
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Highland | 1,130,757 | 2,707 | 1,629,299 | 3,900 | 15,136 | 36 |
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Inverclyde | 614,879 | 1,414 | 400,159 | 823 | 31,500 | 105 |
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Midlothian | 563,327 | 1,600 | 442,862 | 1,258 | 27,802 | 79 |
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Moray | 538,624 | 354 | 373,333 | 289 | - | - |
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North Ayrshire | 1,063,891 | 2,383 | 357,979 | 933 | 16,599 | 23 |
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North Lanarkshire | 2,094,324 | 5,678 | 1,729,059 | 4,048 | 140,960 | 363 |
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Orkney Islands | 216,584 | 700 | 145,065 | 584 | - | - |
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Perth & Kinross | 763,976 | 1,295 | 481,489 | 817 | 2,106 | 4 |
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Renfrewshire | 1,170,541 | 1,312 | 954,167 | 750 | 46,928 | 192 |
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Scottish Borders | 601,469 | 1,315 | 529,286 | 1,342 | - | - |
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Shetland Islands | 256,260 | 608 | 259,160 | 917 | 9,288 | 29 |
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South Ayrshire | 687,257 | 1,578 | 393,837 | 931 | 11,993 | 33 |
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South Lanarkshire | 1,624,525 | 3,689 | 1,886,567 | 2,741 | 59,487 | 158 |
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Stirling | 464,715 | 807 | 291,807 | 744 | 8,751 | 17 |
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West Dunbartonshire | 660,541 | 1,659 | 522,006 | 1,142 | 22,840 | 166 |
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West Lothian | 1,089,321 | 2,215 | 762,243 | 1,595 | 20,000 | 17 |
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Scotland | 32,284,840 | 60,998 | 23,077,793 | 41,620 | 1,021,570 | 2,262 |
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(1) Making inter-authority comparisons of the expenditure data is not advisable without knowing exactly what each authority has included/excluded in the figures.
The figures represent the gross expenditure (i.e. not taking account of any income from school meals).
Figures are calculated based on audited data returned by the 32 Scottish local authorities. Blanket guidance for definitions of what should be recorded under "gross expenditure on school meals" is not provided. We expect that in some cases the figures do not include some elements of operating costs (property/admin costs etc.)
STOs (Significant Trading Operations) or PPP contracts may also be a factor. In some authorities the meals service will be managed by STOs, which means that the only cost that the education department incurs is the cost of free meals which is billed to the education department by the catering section.