The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2023

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

2023 No.

Local Government

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2023

Made

2023

Coming into force

2023

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 2023 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Revenue support grant for 2023-2024

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2023-2024 are specified in column 1 of schedule 1.

(2) The amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of schedule 1 in respect of the financial year 2023-2024 is the amount set out in column 2 of that schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Distribution of non-domestic rate income for 2023-2024

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 2023-2024 is £3,047,000,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non-domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2023-2024 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 2023-2024 is the amount set out in column 3 of that schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Redetermination of revenue support grant for 2022-2023

4.—(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 2.

(2) The amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of schedule 2 in respect of the financial year 2022-2023 is the amount 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 2022(3) 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 2023-2024

Column 1 Local Authority	Column 2 Amount of revenue support grant £m	Column 3 Amount of non-domestic rate income £m
Aberdeen City	151.879	257.797
Aberdeenshire	371.196	134.839
Angus	213.545	27.934
Argyll & Bute	184.121	37.645
Clackmannanshire	93.780	17.764
Dumfries & Galloway	276.499	60.313
Dundee City	267.885	73.704
East Ayrshire	242.346	30.467
East Dunbartonshire	196.770	24.099
East Lothian	149.564	58.108
East Renfrewshire	196.219	15.695
Edinburgh, City of	519.171	377.317
Eilean Siar	95.793	9.106
Falkirk	256.021	75.322
Fife	599.616	172.108
Glasgow City	1,081.275	358.472
Highland	372.126	156.979
Inverclyde	169.386	21.333
Midlothian	155.215	35.215
Moray	137.940	55.314
North Ayrshire	276.680	43.955
North Lanarkshire	607.439	121.640
Orkney Islands	62.150	11.473
Perth & Kinross	242.221	60.754
Renfrewshire	238.261	131.323
Scottish Borders	209.018	37.818
Shetland Islands	58.345	24.302
South Ayrshire	195.165	47.708
South Lanarkshire	319.072	341.536
Stirling	152.856	45.636
West Dunbartonshire	122.920	93.396
West Lothian	291.304	87.928
Scotland Total	8,505.778	3,047.000

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2022-2023

Column 1 Local Authority	Column 2 Amount of revenue support grant £m
Aberdeen City	135.772
Aberdeenshire	372.924
Angus	220.480
Argyll & Bute	191.979
Clackmannanshire	95.864
Dumfries & Galloway	291.937
Dundee City	315.925
East Ayrshire	255.745
East Dunbartonshire	210.391
East Lothian	182.376
East Renfrewshire	205.587
Edinburgh, City of	654.430
Eilean Siar	97.813
Falkirk	260.070
Fife	609.335
Glasgow City	1,159.207
Highland	397.858
Inverclyde	179.255
Midlothian	169.732
Moray	142.533
North Ayrshire	289.389
North Lanarkshire	635.874
Orkney Islands	60.701
Perth & Kinross	259.507
Renfrewshire	271.055
Scottish Borders	216.297
Shetland Islands	48.429
South Ayrshire	216.211
South Lanarkshire	254.817
Stirling	165.248
West Dunbartonshire	114.402
West Lothian	306.229
Scotland Total	8,987.373

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 2023-2024 (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 2022-2023 (article 4 and schedule 2), and

(d) makes consequential revocations of article 2 and column 2 of schedule 1 of the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2022, which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2022-2023 (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. 2022/84.