The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2002

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 70

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2002

Approved by the Scottish Parliament

Made

22nd January 2002

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

24th January 2002

Coming into force

1st February 2002

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 2002 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 2002–2003

2.—(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 1 to this Order.

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

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 2002–2003 is £1,718,104,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non-domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2002–2003 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order.

(3) The amount of non-domestic rate income distributed to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order in respect of the financial year 2002–2003 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 2001–2002

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2001–2002 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order.

(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order in respect of the financial year 2001–2002 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

5.  Article 3 of, and column 2 of Schedule 2 to, the Local Government Finance (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2001(2) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of financial year 2001–2002) are hereby revoked.

ANDY KERR

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

22nd January 2002

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON-DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2002–2003

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non-domestic rate income
	£	£
Aberdeen City	137,471,000	70, 963,000
Aberdeenshire	161,045,000	76,321,000
Angus	82,278,000	36,676,000
Argyll & Bute	93,717,000	29,826,000
Clackmannanshire	37,343,000	16,279,000
Dumfries & Galloway	126,725,000	48,977,000
Dundee City	139,243,000	47,936,000
East Ayrshire	96,698,000	40,522,000
East Dunbartonshire	70,284,000	37,207,000
East Lothian	60,858,000	30,663,000
East Renfrewshire	59,478,000	30,162,000
City of Edinburgh	293,099,000	152,317,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	66,848,000	9,130,000
Falkirk	109,710,000	48,480,000
Fife	257,211,000	117,707,000
Glasgow City	649,764,000	204,701,000
Highland	204,869,000	70,073,000
Inverclyde	76,987,000	28,419,000
Midlothian	60,484,000	27,613,000
Moray	67,729,000	28,537,000
North Ayrshire	112,878,000	46,643,000
North Lanarkshire	259,965,000	110,055,000
Orkney Islands	36,938,000	6,544,000
Perth & Kinross	94,096,000	44,886,000
Renfrewshire	135,799,000	59,448,000
Scottish Borders	91,063,000	35,910,000
Shetland Islands	55,411,000	7,538,000
South Ayrshire	81,495,000	38,268,000
South Lanarkshire	233,191,000	103,262,000
Stirling	69,880,000	28,627,000
West Dunbartonshire	87,372,000	31,778,000
West Lothian	116,403,000	52,636,000

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2001–2002

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount
	£
Aberdeen City	126,596,000
Aberdeenshire	145,859,299
Angus	74,220,651
Argyll & Bute	86,186,694
Clackmannanshire	34,670,000
Dumfries & Galloway	116,868,904
Dundee City	130,666,000
East Ayrshire	91,472,022
East Dunbartonshire	64,138,000
East Lothian	55,030,241
East Renfrewshire	53,619,000
City of Edinburgh	269,269,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	63,664,190
Falkirk	101,138,000
Fife	239,657,000
Glasgow City	619,827,200
Highland	185,820,381
Inverclyde	72,751,000
Midlothian	57,584,000
Moray	63,537,199
North Ayrshire	104,830,332
North Lanarkshire	243,896,500
Orkney Islands	35,802,289
Perth & Kinross	85,137,353
Renfrewshire	126,530,000
Scottish Borders	82,307,431
Shetland Islands	52,841,000
South Ayrshire	74,337,892
South Lanarkshire	217,263,000
Stirling	64,342,377
West Dunbartonshire	83,659,000
West Lothian	111,806,000

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 2002–2003 (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 2001–2002 (article 4 and Schedule 2); and

(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2001 (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)

S.S.I. 2001/260.