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.
2022 No.
Local Government
The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2022
Made 2022
Coming into force 2022

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 2022 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

2 Revenue support grant for 2022-2023
1 The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2022-2023 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 2022-2023 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 2022-2023
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 2022-2023 is £2,766,000,000.
2 The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2022-2023 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 2022-2023 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 2021-2022
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 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 2021-2022 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 2021 (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2021-22) are revoked.
S.S.I. 2021/157.
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 2022-2023
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	122.790	268.557
Aberdeenshire	357.829	138.786
Angus	213.526	26.160
Argyll & Bute	186.812	33.179
Clackmannanshire	91.953	18.065
Dumfries & Galloway	281.880	51.388
Dundee City	303.581	35.496
East Ayrshire	246.282	23.226
East Dunbartonshire	200.718	17.675
East Lothian	175.395	28.686
East Renfrewshire	197.273	9.574
Edinburgh, City of	629.056	249.861
Eilean Siar	95.675	8.149
Falkirk	247.479	80.433
Fife	583.776	179.675
Glasgow City	1,114.114	296.203
Highland	383.594	141.565
Inverclyde	173.505	15.906
Midlothian	163.366	24.895
Moray	135.363	54.575
North Ayrshire	279.246	37.745
North Lanarkshire	610.149	111.737
Orkney Islands	58.903	12.954
Perth & Kinross	251.110	46.141
Renfrewshire	258.085	108.076
Scottish Borders	209.091	35.294
Shetland Islands	46.405	35.322
South Ayrshire	207.802	30.913
South Lanarkshire	233.276	422.591
Stirling	158.754	35.942
West Dunbartonshire	107.578	107.740
West Lothian	292.011	79.491
Scotland Total	8,616.377	2,766.000

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2021-2022
Article 4
Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant
	£m
Aberdeen City	178.273
Aberdeenshire	385.024
Angus	215.977
Argyll & Bute	193.142
Clackmannanshire	95.923
Dumfries & Galloway	290.334
Dundee City	310.263
East Ayrshire	247.246
East Dunbartonshire	205.219
East Lothian	178.677
East Renfrewshire	201.583
Edinburgh, City of	662.890
Eilean Siar	97.390
Falkirk	263.133
Fife	615.887
Glasgow City	1,185.570
Highland	412.145
Inverclyde	174.944
Midlothian	166.584
Moray	143.906
North Ayrshire	284.512
North Lanarkshire	629.564
Orkney Islands	67.581
Perth & Kinross	256.725
Renfrewshire	278.795
Scottish Borders	214.017
Shetland Islands	61.795
South Ayrshire	210.787
South Lanarkshire	327.822
Stirling	165.456
West Dunbartonshire	132.023
West Lothian	308.811
Scotland Total	9,161.998

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 2022-2023 (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 2021-2022 (article 4 and schedule 2), and
(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2021 (article 5).