This document establishes the legal framework and administrative criteria for the allocation of education support grants by the Secretary of State. The regulations define the specific purposes for which grants may be paid to local education authorities in England and Wales. It serves as a formal instrument of statutory law, outlining the conditions, eligibility requirements, and financial limitations governing the distribution of these funds.

This text is a primary source document used by legal researchers and historians to understand the administrative structure of British education policy in the early 1990s. Readers note the highly technical and formal nature of the prose, which is characteristic of statutory instruments.