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

2021 No.  

Local Government

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2021

Made

2021

Coming into force

2021

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 2021 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Revenue support grant for 2021-2022

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2021-2022 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 2021-2022 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 2021-2022

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 2021-2022 is £2,090,000,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2021-2022 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 2021-2022 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 2020-2021

4.—(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 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 2020-2021 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 2020(3) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2020-2021) are revoked.

Name

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

Date

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON‑DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2021-2022

Column 1Column 2Column 3
Local AuthorityAmount of revenue support grantAmount of non‑domestic rate income
£m£m
Aberdeen City150.000202.923
Aberdeenshire352.402104.867
Angus198.96019.767
Argyll & Bute180.58325.070
Clackmannanshire87.03513.650
Dumfries & Galloway266.46638.830
Dundee City283.23726.821
East Ayrshire226.55317.550
East Dunbartonshire186.75313.355
East Lothian163.32221.675
East Renfrewshire185.4237.234
Edinburgh, City of601.612188.796
Eilean Siar92.9346.157
Falkirk237.58960.775
Fife556.139135.763
Glasgow City1,073.599223.812
Highland377.736106.967
Inverclyde161.27412.019
Midlothian152.71718.811
Moray130.29541.237
North Ayrshire261.11028.520
North Lanarkshire572.21084.429
Orkney Islands64.0989.788
Perth & Kinross236.70734.864
Renfrewshire249.19781.663
Scottish Borders197.14526.668
Shetland Islands58.23926.690
South Ayrshire192.42123.358
South Lanarkshire278.093319.312
Stirling151.81727.158
West Dunbartonshire116.37481.408
West Lothian279.29260.063
Scotland Total8,321.3322,090.000

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2020-2021

Column 1Column 2
Local AuthorityAmount of revenue support grant
£m
Aberdeen City216.138
Aberdeenshire406.804
Angus212.704
Argyll & Bute197.412
Clackmannanshire96.256
Dumfries & Galloway290.101
Dundee City301.041
East Ayrshire242.457
East Dunbartonshire202.499
East Lothian178.661
East Renfrewshire195.940
Edinburgh, City of637.444
Eilean Siar98.006
Falkirk270.306
Fife626.778
Glasgow City1,204.630
Highland426.479
Inverclyde171.138
Midlothian166.367
Moray152.870
North Ayrshire282.283
North Lanarkshire629.086
Orkney Islands76.213
Perth & Kinross247.936
Renfrewshire278.666
Scottish Borders211.789
Shetland Islands73.776
South Ayrshire202.313
South Lanarkshire412.250
Stirling164.400
West Dunbartonshire154.631
West Lothian312.294
Scotland Total9,339.668

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 2021-2022 (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 2020-2021 (article 4 and schedule 2), and

(d)makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2020 (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. 2020/102. Schedule 1 was substituted by S.S.I. 2020/187.