The Budget (Scotland) Act 2020 Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2020

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 348

Public Finance And Accountability

The Budget (Scotland) Act 2020 Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2020

Made

3rd November 2020

Coming into force

4th November 2020

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 7(1) of the Budget (Scotland) Act 2020(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 7(2) of that Act, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Budget (Scotland) Act 2020 Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2020 and come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

(2) In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Budget (Scotland) Act 2020.

Amendment of amounts specified in section 4 (overall cash authorisations)

2.  In section 4 of the Act, for the amount specified in subsection (2) (the Scottish Administration), substitute “£48,463,426,000”.

Amendment of schedule 1 (the Scottish Administration)

3.—(1) The table in schedule 1 of the Act is amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In column 1 (purposes)—

(a) in relation to purpose 1, delete “(eHealth)” and after “care, support and rights;” insert “social care support;”,

(b) in relation to purpose 4, for the words from “funding” to “Student Loan Scheme” substitute “administration funding for the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS); funding administered by SAAS for fees, grants, bursaries, student loans and related costs of Higher Education student support;”,

(c) in relation to purpose 6, after “funding for National Islands Plan related initiatives;” insert “support for Ferguson Marine;”,

(d) in relation to purpose 8, after “Forestry and Land Scotland;” insert “VisitScotland;”, and

(e) in relation to purpose 9, after “expenditure in relation to the running costs of the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser;” insert “Enterprise and Skills Analytical Unit;” and for “cultural organisations;” substitute “cultural and heritage organisations;”.

(3) In column 2 (amount of resources (other than accruing resources)), for the amount specified—

(a) in relation to purpose 1, substitute “17,536,630,000”,

(b) in relation to purpose 2, substitute “13,390,705,000”,

(c) in relation to purpose 3, substitute “171,742,000”,

(d) in relation to purpose 4, substitute “4,538,183,000”,

(e) in relation to purpose 5, substitute “2,705,879,000”,

(f) in relation to purpose 6, substitute “3,921,605,000”,

(g) in relation to purpose 7, substitute “488,494,000”,

(h) in relation to purpose 8, substitute “905,008,000”,

(i) in relation to purpose 9, substitute “1,198,096,000”,

(j) in relation to purpose 10, substitute “3,710,541,000”,

(k) in relation to purpose 11, substitute “39,865,000”,

(l) in relation to purpose 12, substitute “141,868,000”,

(m) in relation to purpose 13, substitute “69,534,000”,

(n) in relation to purpose 15, substitute “4,500,000”,

(o) in relation to purpose 16, substitute “131,644,000”,

(p) in relation to purpose 17, substitute “2,048,000”,

(q) in relation to purpose 18, substitute “6,985,000”, and

(r) in the final row, in relation to the total amounts of resources, substitute “54,380,127,000”.

Amendment of schedule 3 (borrowing by statutory bodies)

4.—(1) The table in schedule 3 of the Act is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In column 1 (enactment), in relation to the fifth enactment for “(Scottish Water Business Stream Holdings Limited)” substitute “(Scottish Water Business Stream Holdings Limited and any subsidiary of it) (subsidiary as defined by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006(2))”.

(3) In column 2 (amount), for the amount specified in relation to the fifth enactment, substitute “100,000,000”.

KATE FORBES

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

3rd November 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Budget (Scotland) Act 2020 (“the Act”).

Regulation 2 amends the overall cash authorisations specified in section 4(2) of the Act in relation to the Scottish Administration.

Regulation 3(2) amends purposes 1, 4, 6, 8 and 9 for which the Scottish Ministers may use resources in financial year 2020/21.

Regulation 3(3) amends and inserts the amount of resources (other than accruing resources) that may be used for purposes 1 to 13 and 15 to 18 and the total amount of those resources for all the purposes.

Regulation 4 amends the reference to “Scottish Water Business Stream Holdings” to include any of its subsidiaries and amends the amount of resources that may be used by Scottish Water Business Stream Holdings Limited and any subsidiary of it for certain purposes in schedule 3 of the Act.

(1)

2020 asp 5, as amended by S.S.I. 2020/197.

(2)

2006 c.46.