The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2016

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 135

Local Government

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2016

Made

1st March 2016

Coming into force

2nd March 2016

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 1 and 9(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.

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 2016 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Revenue support grant for 2016-2017

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2016-2017 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 2016-2017 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 2016-2017

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 2016-2017 is £2,768,500,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2016-2017 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 2016-2017 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 2015-2016

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2015-2016 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 2015-2016 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 of, and column 2 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2015(3) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2015-2016) are revoked.

JOHN SWINNEY

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

1st March 2016

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON‑DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2016-2017

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non‑domestic rate income
	£m	£m
Aberdeen City	113.955	215.586
Aberdeenshire	311.601	98.451
Angus	168.495	29.410
Argyll & Bute	165.717	30.446
Clackmannanshire	77.339	16.269
Dumfries & Galloway	233.971	47.992
Dundee City	214.054	71.011
East Ayrshire	192.443	30.239
East Dunbartonshire	157.320	25.550
East Lothian	143.410	24.370
East Renfrewshire	160.806	15.623
Edinburgh (City of)	342.516	374.650
Eilean Siar	88.457	8.020
Falkirk	205.151	68.028
Fife	440.122	183.331
Glasgow City	846.118	373.351
Highland	310.782	127.682
Inverclyde	140.222	23.331
Midlothian	119.180	32.026
Moray	120.444	35.582
North Ayrshire	225.808	41.459
North Lanarkshire	484.043	120.544
Orkney Islands	57.832	9.869
Perth & Kinross	185.663	57.555
Renfrewshire	207.342	96.106
Scottish Borders	169.331	33.594
Shetland Islands	64.595	17.822
South Ayrshire	157.158	40.755
South Lanarkshire	247.922	303.113
Stirling	116.840	46.216
West Dunbartonshire	101.416	82.793
West Lothian	217.488	87.726
Scotland Total	6,787.541	2,768.500

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2015-2016

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant
	£m
Aberdeen City	130.618
Aberdeenshire	324.275
Angus	176.708
Argyll & Bute	176.473
Clackmannanshire	81.766
Dumfries & Galloway	245.581
Dundee City	237.825
East Ayrshire	200.279
East Dunbartonshire	163.375
East Lothian	147.620
East Renfrewshire	165.425
Edinburgh (City of)	354.576
Eilean Siar	93.467
Falkirk	223.140
Fife	478.560
Glasgow City	887.888
Highland	331.287
Inverclyde	147.211
Midlothian	124.498
Moray	124.550
North Ayrshire	234.519
North Lanarkshire	508.249
Orkney Islands	61.439
Perth & Kinross	194.219
Renfrewshire	211.713
Scottish Borders	178.319
Shetland Islands	70.155
South Ayrshire	163.697
South Lanarkshire	259.966
Stirling	123.484
West Dunbartonshire	108.034
West Lothian	217.938
Scotland Total	7,146.854

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 2016-2017 (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 2015-2016 (article 4 and Schedule 2); and

(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2015 (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 to the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).

(3)

S.S.I. 2015/56. Schedule 1 was amended by S.S.I. 2015/125.