The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Amendment Order 2008

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 136

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Amendment Order 2008

Approved by the Scottish Parliament

Made

12th March 2008

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

13th March 2008

Coming into force

28th March 2008

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of 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 2008 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 2008

2.  For Schedule 1 to the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2008 (2), substitute the Schedule contained in the Schedule to this Order.

JOHN SWINNEY

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

12th March 2008

Article 2

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2008–2009

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non-domestic rate income
	£	£
Aberdeen City	232,603,000	79,357,000
Aberdeenshire	291,109,000	90,627,000
Angus	150,241,000	41,934,000
Argyll & Bute	171,425,000	35,056,000
Clackmannanshire	67,337,000	18,758,000
Dumfries & Galloway	222,453,000	56,783,000
Dundee City	221,223,000	54,535,000
East Ayrshire	168,875,000	45,759,000
East Dunbartonshire	128,573,000	40,454,000
East Lothian	121,354,000	35,609,000
East Renfrewshire	127,632,000	34,251,000
City of Edinburgh	530,080,000	177,798,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	93,800,000	10,108,000
Falkirk	195,392,000	57,416,000
Fife	468,045,000	137,682,000
Glasgow City	1,018,124,000	222,748,000
Highland	353,087,000	82,591,000
Inverclyde	129,208,000	31,278,000
Midlothian	115,750,000	30,415,000
Moray	117,259,000	33,277,000
North Ayrshire	201,970,000	51,973,000
North Lanarkshire	456,146,000	124,199,000
Orkney Islands	58,368,000	7,584,000
Perth & Kinross	173,241,000	53,776,000
Renfrewshire	244,071,000	65,053,000
Scottish Borders	156,912,000	42,287,000
Shetland Islands	81,520,000	8,393,000
South Ayrshire	146,648,000	42,836,000
South Lanarkshire	408,041,000	118,020,000
Stirling	125,012,000	33,683,000
West Dunbartonshire	148,731,000	34,999,000
West Lothian	211,198,000	63,561,000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2008 by replacing Schedule 1 to that Order with the Schedule contained in this Order. Only the figures contained in column 2 of the Schedule are affected. Column 2 of that Schedule lists the amount of revenue support grant which is payable to each local authority in Scotland in respect of the financial year 2008–2009.

(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. 2008/33.