The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011

Order made by the Scottish Ministers, laid before the Scottish Parliament under paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Draft Scottish Statutory Instruments

2011 No.

Local Government

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011

Made

2nd March 2011

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

2nd March 2011

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 12 to 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.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Amendment of the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2011

2.  For Schedule 1 (revenue support grant and distribution of non-domestic rate income 2011-2012) to the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2011(2), substitute the Schedule 1 set out in the Schedule to this Order.

JOHN SWINNEY

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

2nd March 2011

Article 2

SCHEDULE

“SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON‑DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2011-2012

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non-domestic rate income
	£	£
Aberdeen City	175,770,000	161,429,000
Aberdeenshire	341,454,000	68,670,000
Angus	181,329,000	23,391,000
Argyll & Bute	186,393,000	25,582,000
Clackmannanshire	82,602,000	12,284,000
Dumfries & Galloway	263,101,000	38,488,000
Dundee City	239,422,000	61,315,000
East Ayrshire	202,449,000	25,318,000
East Dunbartonshire	163,309,000	20,346,000
East Lothian	149,674,000	19,319,000
East Renfrewshire	162,772,000	11,976,000
City of Edinburgh	448,054,000	297,442,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	102,492,000	5,983,000
Falkirk	223,648,000	55,518,000
Fife	504,325,000	135,006,000
Glasgow City	1,004,402,000	303,146,000
Highland	373,089,000	95,372,000
Inverclyde	154,738,000	18,700,000
Midlothian	127,940,000	23,254,000
Moray	129,966,000	27,053,000
North Ayrshire	238,241,000	33,082,000
North Lanarkshire	531,841,000	96,759,000
Orkney Islands	63,152,000	7,722,000
Perth & Kinross	203,384,000	45,285,000
Renfrewshire	234,127,000	85,237,000
Scottish Borders	190,666,000	23,948,000
Shetland Islands	77,402,000	14,308,000
South Ayrshire	167,607,000	34,835,000
South Lanarkshire	320,546,000	243,978,000
Stirling	138,022,000	31,891,000
West Dunbartonshire	131,391,000	65,977,000
West Lothian	233,695,000	69,386,000”

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2011 by replacing Schedule 1 to that Order with the Schedule 1 set out in the Schedule to this Order. Column 2 of the Schedule lists the amount of revenue support grant which is payable to each local authority in Scotland in respect of the financial year 2011-2012. Column 3 of the Schedule lists the amount of non-domestic rate income to be distributed to each local authority in Scotland in respect of the financial year 2011-2012.

(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. 2011/109.