The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2009

Order made by the Scottish Ministers, laid before the Scottish Parliament under paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Draft Scottish Statutory Instruments

2009 No.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2009

Made

22nd January 2009

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

22nd January 2009

Coming into force

2009

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of powers conferred by paragraphs 1 and 9(4) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule they have consulted with such associations of local authorities as appear to them to be appropriate.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2009 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Revenue support grant for 2009–2010

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2009–2010 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1.

(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 in respect of the financial year 2009–2010 shall be the amount determined in relation to that local authority set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Distribution of non-domestic rate income for 2009–2010

3.—(1) The distributable amount of non domestic rate income arrived at under paragraph 9 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 in respect of the financial year 2009 2010 is £2,127,100,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2009–2010 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1.

(3) The amount of non domestic rate income distributed to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 in respect of the financial year 2009 2010 shall be that part of the distributable amount for that year determined in relation to that local authority set out in column 3 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Revenue support grant for 2008–2009

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2008 2009 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 2.

(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 in respect of the financial year 2008–2009 shall be the amount redetermined in relation to that local authority set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Distribution of non-domestic rate income for 2008–2009

5.—(1) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non-domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2008–2009 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 2.

(2) The amount of non-domestic rate income distributed to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 in respect of the financial year 2008–2009 shall be that part of the distributable amount for that year redetermined in relation to that local authority set out in column 3 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Revocations

6.  Articles 2 and 3 of, and Schedule 1 to the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2008(2) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable and the amount of non-domestic rate distributed to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2008 2009) are revoked.

JOHN SWINNEY

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

22nd January 2009

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2009–2010

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non domestic rate income
	£	£
Aberdeen City	242,625,000	86,528,000
Aberdeenshire	301,741,000	98,892,000
Angus	156,747,000	45,431,000
Argyll & Bute	176,990,000	37,773,000
Clackmannanshire	71,338,000	20,633,000
Dumfries & Galloway	232,943,000	61,321,000
Dundee City	229,131,000	58,778,000
East Ayrshire	174,372,000	49,442,000
East Dunbartonshire	137,708,000	43,355,000
East Lothian	124,933,000	39,050,000
East Renfrewshire	133,797,000	36,909,000
City of Edinburgh	553,304,000	193,545,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	96,878,000	10,875,000
Falkirk	207,547,000	62,322,000
Fife	486,818,000	149,065,000
Glasgow City	1,055,721,000	240,629,000
Highland	366,944,000	89,910,000
Inverclyde	133,780,000	33,526,000
Midlothian	117,958,000	32,877,000
Moray	121,392,000	35,920,000
North Ayrshire	209,777,000	56,136,000
North Lanarkshire	476,359,000	134,253,000
Orkney Islands	61,190,000	8,212,000
Perth & Kinross	181,205,000	58,774,000
Renfrewshire	247,553,000	70,129,000
Scottish Borders	166,692,000	46,076,000
Shetland Islands	83,878,000	9,076,000
South Ayrshire	153,203,000	46,183,000
South Lanarkshire	424,802,000	127,977,000
Stirling	130,874,000	36,466,000
West Dunbartonshire	158,686,000	37,665,000
West Lothian	222,908,000	69,372,000

Articles 4 and 5

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2008–2009

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non-domestic rate income
	£	£
Aberdeen City	234,656,942	79,680,000
Aberdeenshire	295,131,811	90,996,000
Angus	151,112,410	42,105,000
Argyll & Bute	173,916,198	35,199,000
Clackmannanshire	68,092,625	18,834,000
Dumfries & Galloway	224,316,519	57,014,000
Dundee City	223,973,760	54,757,000
East Ayrshire	171,732,176	45,945,000
East Dunbartonshire	130,745,970	40,619,000
East Lothian	122,774,958	35,754,000
East Renfrewshire	131,222,475	34,391,000
City of Edinburgh	538,569,075	178,524,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	94,093,482	10,149,000
Falkirk	199,000,171	57,650,000
Fife	471,998,578	138,244,000
Glasgow City	1,023,152,340	223,656,000
Highland	357,835,653	82,928,000
Inverclyde	130,554,437	31,405,000
Midlothian	116,883,584	30,539,000
Moray	117,936,955	33,413,000
North Ayrshire	205,653,221	52,185,000
North Lanarkshire	462,596,126	124,705,000
Orkney Islands	59,723,086	7,615,000
Perth & Kinross	174,355,628	53,995,000
Renfrewshire	250,732,852	65,318,000
Scottish Borders	158,997,090	42,459,000
Shetland Islands	81,831,637	8,427,000
South Ayrshire	147,657,040	43,011,000
South Lanarkshire	412,102,736	118,501,000
Stirling	127,940,421	33,820,000
West Dunbartonshire	151,074,325	35,142,000
West Lothian	215,520,242	63,820,000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order–

(a) determines the amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority in Scotland in respect of the financial year 2009–2010 (article 2 and Schedule 1);

(b) determines the amount of non domestic rate income to be distributed to each local authority in respect of that year (article 3 and Schedule 1);

(c) redetermines the amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2008–2009 (article 4 and Schedule 2);

(d) redetermines the amount of non-domestic rate income to be distributed to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2008–2009 (article 5 and Schedule 2); and

(e) makes a consequential revocation in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2008 (article 6).

(1)

1992 c. 14. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). The requirement to obtain Treasury consent was removed by section 55 of that Act.

(2)

S.S.I. 2008/33.