The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2020

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

2020 No.

Local Government

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2020

Made

2020

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

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 2020 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Revenue support grant for 2020-2021

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2020-2021 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 2020-2021 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 2020-2021

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 2020-2021 is £2,790,000,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2020-2021 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 2020-2021 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 2019-2020

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2019-2020 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 2019-2020 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 2019(3) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2019-2020) are revoked.

Name

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

Date

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON‑DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2020-2021

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non‑domestic rate income
	£m	£m
Aberdeen City	85.962	245.563
Aberdeenshire	304.657	119.652
Angus	178.849	26.537
Argyll & Bute	160.588	34.776
Clackmannanshire	79.290	16.067
Dumfries & Galloway	235.006	53.259
Dundee City	245.322	49.119
East Ayrshire	203.906	26.362
East Dunbartonshire	165.316	22.759
East Lothian	146.639	27.293
East Renfrewshire	166.747	14.877
Edinburgh, City of	378.307	356.843
Eilean Siar	86.426	8.307
Falkirk	213.391	69.123
Fife	481.679	166.844
Glasgow City	878.218	356.130
Highland	319.946	137.851
Inverclyde	145.060	19.593
Midlothian	132.923	29.254
Moray	116.694	43.324
North Ayrshire	237.234	37.364
North Lanarkshire	513.095	106.580
Orkney Islands	59.028	10.483
Perth & Kinross	196.303	56.569
Renfrewshire	202.044	110.286
Scottish Borders	173.123	34.931
Shetland Islands	55.361	25.662
South Ayrshire	160.294	42.718
South Lanarkshire	226.746	337.810
Stirling	125.995	42.754
West Dunbartonshire	104.609	83.583
West Lothian	242.467	77.727
Scotland Total	7,021.226	2,790.000

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2019-2020

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant
	£m
Aberdeen City	72.248
Aberdeenshire	298.681
Angus	178.011
Argyll & Bute	160.249
Clackmannanshire	78.101
Dumfries & Galloway	236.128
Dundee City	232.133
East Ayrshire	202.583
East Dunbartonshire	167.665
East Lothian	148.755
East Renfrewshire	168.983
Edinburgh, City of	360.861
Eilean Siar	86.611
Falkirk	212.188
Fife	482.655
Glasgow City	880.598
Highland	306.652
Inverclyde	144.989
Midlothian	129.016
Moray	116.504
North Ayrshire	233.288
North Lanarkshire	511.480
Orkney Islands	59.283
Perth & Kinross	194.981
Renfrewshire	208.016
Scottish Borders	171.298
Shetland Islands	55.476
South Ayrshire	160.702
South Lanarkshire	223.733
Stirling	125.230
West Dunbartonshire	103.824
West Lothian	236.124
Scotland Total	6,947.046

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 2020-2021 (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 2019-2020 (article 4 and schedule 2), and

(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2019 (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. 2019/90.