This draft Order supersedes the draft of the same title which was laid before the Scottish Parliament on 19 February 2020 and published on 20 February 2020 (ISBN 978-0-11-104425-4). It is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that draft Order.
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.
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 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
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.
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, a draft of this Order has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.
Paragraph 2(3) has been modified by paragraph 6 of schedule 3 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).

1 Citation and commencement
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.

2 Revenue support grant for 2020-2021
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.

3 Distribution of non-domestic rate income for 2020-2021
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 £2,840,000,000.
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.

4 Revenue support grant for 2019-2020
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.

5 Revocations
Article 2 and column 2 of schedule 1 of the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2019 (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2019-2020) are revoked.
S.S.I. 2019/90.
Name Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh Date

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON‑DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2020-2021
Articles 2 and 3
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non‑domestic rate income
	£m	£m
Aberdeen City	84.901	249.963
Aberdeenshire	307.080	121.796
Angus	180.439	27.013
Argyll & Bute	161.665	35.400
Clackmannanshire	79.886	16.355
Dumfries & Galloway	236.864	54.213
Dundee City	247.081	50.000
East Ayrshire	205.598	26.835
East Dunbartonshire	166.888	23.166
East Lothian	147.983	27.782
East Renfrewshire	168.355	15.144
Edinburgh, City of	379.342	363.238
Eilean Siar	87.006	8.456
Falkirk	214.901	70.362
Fife	485.163	169.834
Glasgow City	882.468	362.512
Highland	321.985	140.321
Inverclyde	146.132	19.944
Midlothian	133.995	29.779
Moray	117.537	44.101
North Ayrshire	239.081	38.033
North Lanarkshire	517.230	108.490
Orkney Islands	59.506	10.671
Perth & Kinross	197.907	57.583
Renfrewshire	203.169	112.262
Scottish Borders	174.586	35.557
Shetland Islands	55.639	26.122
South Ayrshire	161.530	43.483
South Lanarkshire	226.351	343.864
Stirling	126.896	43.520
West Dunbartonshire	104.784	85.081
West Lothian	244.278	79.120
Scotland Total	7,066.226	2,840.000

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2019-2020
Article 4
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).