The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 430 (S.15)

HOUSING, SCOTLAND

The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1994

Made

22nd February 1994

Coming into force

1st April 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 191 and 192 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned under the said sections 191 and 192 and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order, a draft of which has been approved by the House of Commons:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

(2) In this Order—;

“appropriate local authority” means a local authority specified in Schedule 1 to this Order (which lists authorities whose eligible expenditure and relevant income have been taken into account in estimating the aggregate amounts of eligible expenditure and relevant income for the purpose of fixing the aggregate amount of housing support grants); and

“the number of houses of the authority” means the estimate of the number of houses to which the housing revenue account of the authority at 30th September 1994 relates.

(3) In this Order any reference to any type of expenditure, charge or income which is estimated is a reference to such an estimate made by the Secretary of State.

Aggregate amount of grants for 1994-95

2.  The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1994-95 shall be £25,685,644.

Apportionment of grants for 1994-95

3.—(1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1994-95 shall be divided into 2 portions, the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”.

(2) The general portion shall amount to £23,619,305 and shall be apportioned among appropriate local authorities according to their respective estimated net expenditures assessed in the manner provided for in Schedule 2 to this Order.

(3) The hostel portion shall amount to £2,066,339 and shall be apportioned among those local authorities mentioned in Schedule 3 to this Order according to their respective estimated net expenditures for the year 1994-95 on those buildings specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (which provides for lodging houses and hostels as buildings for the purposes of a local authority’s housing revenue account).

James Douglas-Hamilton,

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

17th February 1994

We consent,

T.J.R. Wood,

Irvine Patnick,

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

22nd February 1994

Article 1(2)

SCHEDULE 1 APPROPRIATE LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR 1994-95

• District councils

  • Annandale and Eskdale

  • Badenoch and Strathspey

  • Caithness

  • City of Glasgow

  • Gordon

  • Kincardine and Deeside

  • Lochaber

  • Nairn

  • Ross and Cromarty

  • Skye and Lochalsh

  • Sutherland

• Islands councils

  • Shetland

  • Western Isles

Article 3(2)

SCHEDULE 2 ASSESSMENT OF ESTIMATED NET EXPENDITURE OF APPROPRIATE LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR 1994-95 FOR APPORTIONMENT OF GENERAL PORTION

The estimated net expenditure of an appropriate local authority shall be the amount arrived at by addition of the amounts specified in items 1 to 5 below less the amounts specified in items 6 and 7 below.

Expenditure

1.  Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the appropriate local authority’s housing revenue account for the year 1994-95 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 other than loan charges in respect of hostels and lodging houses.

2.  For supervision and management—

(a) £165.48 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority; and

(b) for authorities with stocks of houses not exceeding 9,000 a supplementary amount of—

(i) £66.19 in the case of an authority with not more than 3,000 houses;

(ii) £33.10 in the case of an authority with more than 3,000 but not more than 6,000 houses; or

(iii) £16.55 in the case of an authority with more than 6,000 but not more than 9,000 houses,

multiplied in each case by the number of houses of the authority.

3.  For repairs and maintenance—

(a) £475.72 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority; and

(b) supplementary amounts of—

(i) £737.37 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are 15 or more storeys; and

(ii) £333.00 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are between 5 and 14 storeys, with lifts.

4.  Estimated rents lost because of unlet houses.

5.  Estimated other miscellaneous expenditure which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.

Income

6.  £1812.91 multiplied by the number of the authority’s houses other than houses leased by the authority for periods of 5 years or less.

7.  Estimated other miscellaneous income which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.

Article 3(3)

SCHEDULE 3 LOCAL AUTHORITIES RECEIVING PROPORTION OF HOSTEL PORTION FOR 1994-95

• District councils

  • Aberdeen

  • Annandale and Eskdale

  • Argyll and Bute

  • Badenoch and Strathspey

  • City of Edinburgh

  • City of Glasgow

  • Cunninghame

  • East Kilbride

  • Eastwood

  • Falkirk

  • Gordon

  • Inverclyde

  • Inverness

  • Kilmarnock and Loudoun

  • Kyle and Carrick

  • Moray

  • North East Fife

  • Perth and Kinross

  • Renfrew

  • Stirling

• Islands council

  • Shetland

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order fixes for the year 1994-95 the aggregate amount of the housing support grants payable to some local authorities under section 191 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987; lists the authorities among whom the grants will be apportioned; and prescribes the method of apportionment among those authorities of the general and hostel portions of the aggregate amount.

(1)

1987 c. 26; sections 191(10) and 192(6) have been amended by the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43), Schedule 8, paragraphs 4 and 5 respectively.