The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2004

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 14

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2004

Made

21st January 2004

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

22nd January 2004

Coming into force

6th February 2004

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 2004 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 2004–2005

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2004–2005 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 2004–2005 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 2004–2005

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 2004–2005 is £1,895,941,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non-domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2004–2005 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 2004–2005 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 2003–2004

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2003–2004 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 2003–2004 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.

Revenue Support Grant for 2002–2003

5.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2002–2003 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 3.

(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 in respect of the financial year 2002–2003 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

6.—(1) Article 2 of, and column 2 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2003(2) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of financial year 2003–2004) are hereby revoked.

(2) Article 4 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2003 (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of financial year 2002–2003) are hereby revoked.

ANDY KERR

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

21st January 2004

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON-DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2004–2005

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non-domestic rate income
	£	£
Aberdeen City	167,766,000	78,492,000
Aberdeenshire	199,957,000	85,248,000
Angus	102,121,000	40,557,000
Argyll & Bute	113,692,000	34,143,000
Clackmannanshire	45,228,000	17,978,000
Dumfries & Galloway	155,772,000	55,253,000
Dundee City	162,786,000	54,079,000
East Ayrshire	117,509,000	44,912,000
East Dunbartonshire	91,073,000	40,249,000
East Lothian	76,956,000	34,038,000
East Renfrewshire	77,783,000	33,618,000
City of Edinburgh	360,780,000	168,065,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	75,982,000	9,827,000
Falkirk	134,569,000	54,596,000
Fife	322,659,000	131,540,000
Glasgow City	750,692,000	216,551,000
Highland	246,257,000	78,069,000
Inverclyde	91,819,000	31,357,000
Midlothian	77,951,000	30,194,000
Moray	84,205,000	32,534,000
North Ayrshire	136,530,000	50,879,000
North Lanarkshire	307,712,000	120,531,000
Orkney Islands	42,684,000	7,205,000
Perth & Kinross	120,374,000	50,695,000
Renfrewshire	166,104,000	64,491,000
Scottish Borders	110,922,000	40,283,000
Shetland Islands	63,364,000	8,229,000
South Ayrshire	100,136,000	41,885,000
South Lanarkshire	282,678,000	113,315,000
Stirling	86,078,000	32,313,000
West Dunbartonshire	102,546,000	34,818,000
West Lothian	143,844,000	59,997,000

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2003–2004

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount
	£
Aberdeen City	166,121,832
Aberdeenshire	192,201,318
Angus	99,246,229
Argyll & Bute	109,501,059
Clackmannanshire	44,824,738
Dumfries & Galloway	149,968,097
Dundee City	165,911,263
East Ayrshire	118,725,538
East Dunbartonshire	86,360,204
East Lothian	74,613,591
East Renfrewshire	72,827,654
City of Edinburgh	355,284,770
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	74,216,461
Falkirk	129,468,733
Fife	309,004,796
Glasgow City	759,608,368
Highland	238,214,294
Inverclyde	95,367,157
Midlothian	73,519,695
Moray	80,237,038
North Ayrshire	138,531,546
North Lanarkshire	307,917,501
Orkney Islands	40,966,549
Perth & Kinross	114,920,317
Renfrewshire	165,680,183
Scottish Borders	108,426,872
Shetland Islands	61,312,155
South Ayrshire	98,949,094
South Lanarkshire	277,158,209
Stirling	83,499,582
West Dunbartonshire	106,618,601
West Lothian	137,936,300

Article 5

SCHEDULE 3 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2002–2003

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount
	£
Aberdeen City	149,694,269
Aberdeenshire	174,041,820
Angus	89,736,005
Argyll & Bute	101,530,396
Clackmannanshire	40,252,078
Dumfries & Galloway	136,743,988
Dundee City	151,500,800
East Ayrshire	105,842,310
East Dunbartonshire	76,013,179
East Lothian	66,607,027
East Renfrewshire	65,067,773
City of Edinburgh	320,882,730
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	69,784,300
Falkirk	117,122,431
Fife	276,435,246
Glasgow City	693,748,318
Highland	218,872,289
Inverclyde	84,988,165
Midlothian	64,652,589
Moray	72,697,969
North Ayrshire	124,500,528
North Lanarkshire	276,533,890
Orkney Islands	38,322,623
Perth & Kinross	104,138,938
Renfrewshire	147,019,178
Scottish Borders	98,420,786
Shetland Islands	56,993,008
South Ayrshire	89,383,685
South Lanarkshire	250,639,194
Stirling	76,073,977
West Dunbartonshire	95,355,353
West Lothian	125,012,777

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 2004–2005 (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 2003–2004 (article 4 and Schedule 2);

(d) redetermines the amount of revenue grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2002-03 (article 5 and Schedule 3); and

(e) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2003 (article 6).

(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. 2003/42.