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 1REVENUE 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 City151.879257.797
Aberdeenshire371.196134.839
Angus213.54527.934
Argyll & Bute184.12137.645
Clackmannanshire93.78017.764
Dumfries & Galloway276.49960.313
Dundee City267.88573.704
East Ayrshire242.34630.467
East Dunbartonshire196.77024.099
East Lothian149.56458.108
East Renfrewshire196.21915.695
Edinburgh, City of519.171377.317
Eilean Siar95.7939.106
Falkirk256.02175.322
Fife599.616172.108
Glasgow City1,081.275358.472
Highland372.126156.979
Inverclyde169.38621.333
Midlothian155.21535.215
Moray137.94055.314
North Ayrshire276.68043.955
North Lanarkshire607.439121.640
Orkney Islands62.15011.473
Perth & Kinross242.22160.754
Renfrewshire238.261131.323
Scottish Borders209.01837.818
Shetland Islands58.34524.302
South Ayrshire195.16547.708
South Lanarkshire319.072341.536
Stirling152.85645.636
West Dunbartonshire122.92093.396
West Lothian291.30487.928
Scotland Total8,505.7783,047.000

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2022-2023

Column 1

Local Authority

Column 2

Amount of revenue support grant

£m

Aberdeen City135.772
Aberdeenshire372.924
Angus220.480
Argyll & Bute191.979
Clackmannanshire95.864
Dumfries & Galloway291.937
Dundee City315.925
East Ayrshire255.745
East Dunbartonshire210.391
East Lothian182.376
East Renfrewshire205.587
Edinburgh, City of654.430
Eilean Siar97.813
Falkirk260.070
Fife609.335
Glasgow City1,159.207
Highland397.858
Inverclyde179.255
Midlothian169.732
Moray142.533
North Ayrshire289.389
North Lanarkshire635.874
Orkney Islands60.701
Perth & Kinross259.507
Renfrewshire271.055
Scottish Borders216.297
Shetland Islands48.429
South Ayrshire216.211
South Lanarkshire254.817
Stirling165.248
West Dunbartonshire114.402
West Lothian306.229
Scotland Total8,987.373

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).