The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2020

This draft Order supersedes the draft of the same title which was laid before the Scottish Parliament on 4 March 2020 and published on 5 March 2020 (ISBN 978-0-11-104452-0). It is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that draft Order.

Draft Order laid before the Scottish Parliament under paragraph 2(3) of schedule 12 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Draft Scottish Statutory Instruments

2020 No.

Local Government

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2020

Made

2020

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

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

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2020 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Revenue support grant for 2020-2021

2.—(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 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 2020-2021 is 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 2020-2021

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 2020-2021 is £1,868,030,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2020-2021 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 2020-2021 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.

Revenue support grant for 2019-2020

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2019-2020 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 2019-2020 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.

Revocations

5.  Article 2 and column 2 of schedule 1 of the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2019(3) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2019-2020) are revoked.

Name

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

Date

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON‑DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2020-2021

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non‑domestic rate income
	£m	£m
Aberdeen City	170.449	164.415
Aberdeenshire	348.764	80.112
Angus	189.684	17.768
Argyll & Bute	173.781	23.284
Clackmannanshire	85.484	10.757
Dumfries & Galloway	255.418	35.659
Dundee City	264.193	32.888
East Ayrshire	214.782	17.651
East Dunbartonshire	174.816	15.238
East Lothian	157.491	18.274
East Renfrewshire	173.538	9.961
Edinburgh, City of	503.658	238.922
Eilean Siar	89.900	5.562
Falkirk	238.982	46.281
Fife	543.288	111.709
Glasgow City	1,006.535	238.445
Highland	370.009	92.297
Inverclyde	152.958	13.118
Midlothian	144.187	19.587
Moray	132.630	29.008
North Ayrshire	252.097	25.017
North Lanarkshire	554.360	71.360
Orkney Islands	63.158	7.019
Perth & Kinross	217.614	37.876
Renfrewshire	241.590	73.841
Scottish Borders	186.755	23.388
Shetland Islands	64.579	17.182
South Ayrshire	176.412	28.601
South Lanarkshire	344.036	226.179
Stirling	141.790	28.626
West Dunbartonshire	133.902	55.963
West Lothian	271.356	52.042
Scotland Total	8,038.196	1,868.030

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2019-2020

Column	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant
	>£m
Aberdeen City	72.248
Aberdeenshire	298.681
Angus	178.011
Argyll & Bute	160.249
Clackmannanshire	78.101
Dumfries & Galloway	236.128
Dundee City	232.133
East Ayrshire	202.583
East Dunbartonshire	167.665
East Lothian	148.755
East Renfrewshire	168.983
Edinburgh, City of	360.861
Eilean Siar	86.611
Falkirk	212.188
Fife	482.655
Glasgow City	880.598
Highland	306.652
Inverclyde	144.989
Midlothian	129.016
Moray	116.504
North Ayrshire	233.288
North Lanarkshire	511.480
Orkney Islands	59.283
Perth & Kinross	194.981
Renfrewshire	208.016
Scottish Borders	171.298
Shetland Islands	55.476
South Ayrshire	160.702
South Lanarkshire	223.733
Stirling	125.230
West Dunbartonshire	103.824
West Lothian	236.124
Scotland Total	6,947.046

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 2020-2021 (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 2019-2020 (article 4 and schedule 2), and

(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2019 (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. 2019/90.