The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2001

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 96

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2001

Approved by the Scottish Parliament

Made

24th January 2001

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

25th January 2001

Coming into force

8th February 2001

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 1 and 9 (4) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to them to be appropriate in accordance with paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2001 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Revenue support grant for 2001-2002

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2001-2002 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order.

(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order in respect of the financial year 2001-2002 shall be 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 2001-2002

3.—(1) The distributable amount of non-domestic rate income arrived at under paragraph 9 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 in respect of the financial year 2001-2002 is £1,553,926,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non-domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2001-2002 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order.

(3) The amount of non-domestic rate income distributed to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order in respect of the financial year 2001-2002 shall be 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 2000-2001

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2000-2001 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order.

(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order in respect of the financial year 2000-2001 shall be 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 of, and column 2 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2000(2) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of financial year 2000-2001) are hereby revoked.

ANGUS MACKAY

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

24th January 2001

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON-DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2001-2002

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant £	Amount of non-domestic rate income £
Aberdeen City	123,330,000	64,550,000
Aberdeenshire	141,779,000	69,039,000
Angus	71,852,000	33,342,000
Argyll & Bute	84,003,496	27,237,000
Clackmannanshire	33,752,000	14,731,000
Dumfries & Galloway	113,225,000	44,561,000
Dundee City	125,524,000	43,842,000
East Ayrshire	87,300,000	36,711,000
East Dunbartonshire	62,155,000	33,600,000
East Lothian	53,494,000	27,450,000
East Renfrewshire	51,867,000	27,101,000
City of Edinburgh	262,350,000	137,116,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	63,093,000	8,366,000
Falkirk	98,712,000	43,823,000
Fife	233,212,000	105,999,000
Glasgow City	601,182,200	185,602,000
Highland	181,835,000	63,320,000
Inverclyde	69,133,000	25,859,000
Midlothian	55,179,000	24,794,000
Moray	62,008,000	25,865,000
North Ayrshire	102,205,000	42,318,000
North Lanarkshire	235,943,500	99,546,000
Orkney Islands	35,382,000	5,949,000
Perth & Kinross	82,748,000	40,685,000
Renfrewshire	121,953,000	53,798,000
Scottish Borders	80,157,000	32,297,000
Shetland Islands	52,383,000	6,903,000
South Ayrshire	72,237,000	34,680,000
South Lanarkshire	210,482,000	93,347,000
Stirling	62,830,000	25,711,000
West Dunbartonshire	79,333,000	28,831,000
West Lothian	104,322,000	46,953,000

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2000-2001

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount £
Aberdeen City	111,098,000
Aberdeenshire	126,296,000
Angus	65,753,300
Argyll & Bute	75,852,000
Clackmannanshire	29,871,000
Dumfries & Galloway	101,602,000
Dundee City	113,754,000
East Ayrshire	80,297,000
East Dunbartonshire	54,687,000
East Lothian	48,908,000
East Renfrewshire	46,122,000
City of Edinburgh	237,763,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	59,153,000
Falkirk	86,034,000
Fife	209,080,000
Glasgow City	541,373,800
Highland	164,978,000
Inverclyde	63,787,000
Midlothian	48,262,000
Moray	55,365,000
North Ayrshire	91,884,000
North Lanarkshire	209,986,500
Orkney Islands	32,193,000
Perth & Kinross	75,191,000
Renfrewshire	111,306,000
Scottish Borders	74,035,015
Shetland Islands	48,593,000
South Ayrshire	65,925,000
South Lanarkshire	188,969,000
Stirling	55,594,000
West Dunbartonshire	69,698,000
West Lothian	97,431,000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

This Order–

(a) determines the amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority in Scotland in respect of the financial year 2001-2002 (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 2000-2001 (article 4 and Schedule 2);

(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2000 (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)

S.S.I. 2000/40