The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2017

Draft Order laid before the Scottish Parliament under paragraph 2(3) of schedule 12 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Draft Scottish Statutory Instruments

2017 No.  

Local Government

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2017

Made

2017

Coming into force

2017

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 1 and 9(4) of schedule 12 of 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.

In accordance with paragraph 2(3) of that schedule(2), a draft of this Order has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2017 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Revenue support grant for 2017-2018

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2017-2018 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 2017-2018 is 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 2017-2018

3.—(1) The distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income arrived at under paragraph 9 of schedule 12 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 in respect of the financial year 2017-2018 is £2,665,800,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2017-2018 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 2017-2018 is 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 2016-2017

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2016-2017 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 2016-2017 is the amount redetermined in relation to that local authority set out in column 2 of that schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Revocations

5.  Article 2 and column 2 of schedule 1 of the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2016(3) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2016-2017) are revoked.

Name

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

Date

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON‑DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2017-2018

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non‑domestic rate income
	£m	£m
Aberdeen City	111.713	205.547
Aberdeenshire	306.181	95.828
Angus	166.052	27.233
Argyll & Bute	160.755	29.615
Clackmannanshire	76.004	14.928
Dumfries & Galloway	229.216	45.529
Dundee City	212.396	66.700
East Ayrshire	188.015	29.367
East Dunbartonshire	154.770	23.586
East Lothian	140.464	24.550
East Renfrewshire	158.666	14.427
Edinburgh (City of)	335.419	355.063
Eilean Siar	85.377	7.962
Falkirk	201.137	65.438
Fife	439.032	170.998
Glasgow City	813.748	373.238
Highland	307.011	122.421
Inverclyde	136.981	21.283
Midlothian	119.466	29.273
Moray	119.131	33.406
North Ayrshire	220.760	40.568
North Lanarkshire	473.405	114.474
Orkney Islands	56.983	9.688
Perth & Kinross	187.244	52.035
Renfrewshire	196.634	98.908
Scottish Borders	165.479	32.673
Shetland Islands	56.614	23.240
South Ayrshire	153.045	39.756
South Lanarkshire	248.735	287.862
Stirling	118.140	42.829
West Dunbartonshire	102.582	77.319
West Lothian	209.198	90.056
Scotland Total	6,650.353	2,665.800

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2016-2017

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant
	£m
Aberdeen City	115.384
Aberdeenshire	314.451
Angus	169.421
Argyll & Bute	166.251
Clackmannanshire	77.977
Dumfries & Galloway	235.645
Dundee City	216.366
East Ayrshire	193.640
East Dunbartonshire	159.542
East Lothian	144.370
East Renfrewshire	162.416
Edinburgh (City of)	344.919
Eilean Siar	88.826
Falkirk	206.724
Fife	443.581
Glasgow City	851.404
Highland	313.049
Inverclyde	140.922
Midlothian	119.976
Moray	121.198
North Ayrshire	226.808
North Lanarkshire	488.792
Orkney Islands	58.179
Perth & Kinross	187.100
Renfrewshire	209.072
Scottish Borders	170.080
Shetland Islands	64.873
South Ayrshire	158.197
South Lanarkshire	250.867
Stirling	118.135
West Dunbartonshire	102.225
West Lothian	218.861
Scotland Total	6,839.251

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 2017-2018 (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 2016-2017 (article 4 and schedule 2); and

(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2016 (article 5).

(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)

Paragraph 2(3) has been modified by paragraph 6 of schedule 3 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).

(3)

S.S.I. 2016/135.