The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2018

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

2018 No.  

Local Government

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2018

Made

2018

Coming into force

2018

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 2018 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Revenue support grant for 2018-2019

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2018-2019 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 2018-2019 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 2018-2019

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 2018-2019 is £2,636,000,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2018-2019 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 2018-2019 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 2017-2018

4.—(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 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 2017-2018 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 2017(3) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2017-2018) 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 2018-2019

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non‑domestic rate income
	£m	£m
Aberdeen City	92.762	227.801
Aberdeenshire	297.395	110.710
Angus	171.099	25.101
Argyll & Bute	158.627	33.035
Clackmannanshire	76.850	15.326
Dumfries & Galloway	234.449	44.229
Dundee City	231.008	55.553
East Ayrshire	193.968	26.073
East Dunbartonshire	158.681	21.791
East Lothian	144.112	23.744
East Renfrewshire	160.458	14.318
Edinburgh (City of)	360.822	340.474
Eilean Siar	86.194	7.702
Falkirk	205.167	65.958
Fife	463.534	154.138
Glasgow City	864.827	340.778
Highland	308.220	126.537
Inverclyde	141.667	18.363
Midlothian	125.530	28.115
Moray	114.762	40.151
North Ayrshire	225.973	39.471
North Lanarkshire	491.636	104.339
Orkney Islands	59.056	9.376
Perth & Kinross	190.432	51.953
Renfrewshire	181.263	120.105
Scottish Borders	168.350	32.790
Shetland Islands	56.457	23.852
South Ayrshire	157.591	38.299
South Lanarkshire	248.728	295.500
Stirling	120.671	42.273
West Dunbartonshire	103.694	78.812
West Lothian	226.727	79.333
Scotland Total	6,820.710	2,636.000

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2017-2018

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant
	£m
Aberdeen City	116.541
Aberdeenshire	312.589
Angus	168.576
Argyll & Bute	162.798
Clackmannanshire	77.529
Dumfries & Galloway	233.367
Dundee City	217.465
East Ayrshire	190.949
East Dunbartonshire	159.146
East Lothian	143.430
East Renfrewshire	161.493
Edinburgh (City of)	345.757
Eilean Siar	86.251
Falkirk	205.396
Fife	448.957
Glasgow City	834.785
Highland	314.143
Inverclyde	138.971
Midlothian	122.372
Moray	121.061
North Ayrshire	224.701
North Lanarkshire	485.511
Orkney Islands	57.643
Perth & Kinross	190.637
Renfrewshire	201.151
Scottish Borders	167.744
Shetland Islands	57.428
South Ayrshire	156.390
South Lanarkshire	256.865
Stirling	120.712
West Dunbartonshire	105.129
West Lothian	213.469
Scotland Total	6,798.956

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 2018-2019 (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 2017-2018 (article 4 and schedule 2); and

(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2017 (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. 2017/87.