The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2021

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 157

Local Government

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2021

Made

19th March 2021

Coming into force

20th March 2021

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 S

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2021 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 1 in force at 20.3.2021, see art. 1

Revenue support grant for 2021-2022 S

F1 2.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 2 revoked (9.3.2022) by The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/84), arts. 1, 5

Distribution of non-domestic rate income for 2021-2022 S

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 2021-2022 is £2,090,000,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2021-2022 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 2021-2022 is 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.

Commencement Information

I2 Art. 3 in force at 20.3.2021, see art. 1

Revenue support grant for 2020-2021 S

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2020-2021 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 2020-2021 is the amount redetermined in relation to that local authority set out in column 2 of that schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Commencement Information

I3 Art. 4 in force at 20.3.2021, see art. 1

Revocations S

5.  Article 2 and column 2 of schedule 1 of the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2020(3) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2020-2021) are revoked.

Commencement Information

I4 Art. 5 in force at 20.3.2021, see art. 1

IVAN McKEE

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 S REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON‑DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2021-2022

Commencement Information

I5 Sch. 1 in force at 20.3.2021, see art. 1

Column 1	F2 ...	Column 3
Local Authority	F2 ...	Amount of non‑domestic rate income
	F2 ...	£m
Aberdeen City	F2 ...	202.923
Aberdeenshire	F2 ...	104.867
Angus	F2 ...	19.767
Argyll & Bute	F2 ...	25.070
Clackmannanshire	F2 ...	13.650
Dumfries & Galloway	F2 ...	38.830
Dundee City	F2 ...	26.821
East Ayrshire	F2 ...	17.550
East Dunbartonshire	F2 ...	13.355
East Lothian	F2 ...	21.675
East Renfrewshire	F2 ...	7.234
Edinburgh, City of	F2 ...	188.796
Eilean Siar	F2 ...	6.157
Falkirk	F2 ...	60.775
Fife	F2 ...	135.763
Glasgow City	F2 ...	223.812
Highland	F2 ...	106.967
Inverclyde	F2 ...	12.019
Midlothian	F2 ...	18.811
Moray	F2 ...	41.237
North Ayrshire	F2 ...	28.520
North Lanarkshire	F2 ...	84.429
Orkney Islands	F2 ...	9.788
Perth & Kinross	F2 ...	34.864
Renfrewshire	F2 ...	81.663
Scottish Borders	F2 ...	26.668
Shetland Islands	F2 ...	26.690
South Ayrshire	F2 ...	23.358
South Lanarkshire	F2 ...	319.312
Stirling	F2 ...	27.158
West Dunbartonshire	F2 ...	81.408
West Lothian	F2 ...	60.063
Scotland Total	F2 ...	2,090.000

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in sch. 1 revoked (9.3.2022) by The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/84), arts. 1, 5

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 S REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2020-2021

Commencement Information

I6 Sch. 2 in force at 20.3.2021, see art. 1

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant
	£m
Aberdeen City	216.138
Aberdeenshire	406.804
Angus	212.704
Argyll & Bute	197.412
Clackmannanshire	96.256
Dumfries & Galloway	290.101
Dundee City	301.041
East Ayrshire	242.457
East Dunbartonshire	202.499
East Lothian	178.661
East Renfrewshire	195.940
Edinburgh, City of	637.444
Eilean Siar	98.006
Falkirk	270.306
Fife	626.778
Glasgow City	1,204.630
Highland	426.479
Inverclyde	171.138
Midlothian	166.367
Moray	152.870
North Ayrshire	282.283
North Lanarkshire	629.086
Orkney Islands	76.213
Perth & Kinross	247.936
Renfrewshire	278.666
Scottish Borders	211.789
Shetland Islands	73.776
South Ayrshire	202.313
South Lanarkshire	412.250
Stirling	164.400
West Dunbartonshire	154.631
West Lothian	312.294
Scotland Total	9,339.668

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 2021-2022 (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 2020-2021 (article 4 and schedule 2), and

(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2020 (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. 2020/102. Schedule 1 was substituted by S.S.I. 2020/187.