The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2015

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 56

Local Government

The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2015

Made

10th February 2015

Coming into force

11th February 2015

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 2015 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Revenue support grant for 2015-2016

2.—(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 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 2015-2016 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 2015-2016

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 2015-2016 is £2,799,500,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2015-2016 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 2015-2016 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 2014-2015

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2014-2015 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 2014-2015 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 2014(3) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2014-2015) are revoked.

JOHN SWINNEY

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

10th February 2015

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON‑DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2015-2016

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non‑domestic rate income
	£m	£m
Aberdeen City	123.653	210.945
Aberdeenshire	314.638	92.459
Angus	172.874	30.914
Argyll & Bute	174.207	27.949
Clackmannanshire	79.993	15.915
Dumfries & Galloway	240.248	51.027
Dundee City	231.036	60.670
East Ayrshire	195.592	32.979
East Dunbartonshire	159.115	25.288
East Lothian	144.213	26.182
East Renfrewshire	161.731	16.618
Edinburgh (City of)	339.555	392.404
Eilean Siar	92.669	7.951
Falkirk	217.904	62.582
Fife	466.171	167.299
Glasgow City	867.386	383.943
Highland	323.980	127.906
Inverclyde	144.515	23.735
Midlothian	121.515	31.947
Moray	122.282	36.934
North Ayrshire	230.187	43.101
North Lanarkshire	498.771	122.909
Orkney Islands	60.701	9.528
Perth & Kinross	188.328	59.571
Renfrewshire	207.578	103.321
Scottish Borders	173.319	33.840
Shetland Islands	69.401	16.949
South Ayrshire	159.783	42.851
South Lanarkshire	248.813	317.230
Stirling	120.692	45.580
West Dunbartonshire	104.133	84.385
West Lothian	212.044	94.588
Scotland Total	6,967.027	2,799.500

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2014-2015

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant
	£m
Aberdeen City	136.799
Aberdeenshire	309.990
Angus	173.863
Argyll & Bute	174.740
Clackmannanshire	83.260
Dumfries & Galloway	245.153
Dundee City	235.007
East Ayrshire	196.615
East Dunbartonshire	157.287
East Lothian	145.519
East Renfrewshire	160.697
Edinburgh (City of)	385.758
Eilean Siar	95.868
Falkirk	205.018
Fife	479.958
Glasgow City	908.557
Highland	331.568
Inverclyde	145.360
Midlothian	123.255
Moray	121.959
North Ayrshire	229.237
North Lanarkshire	508.047
Orkney Islands	59.357
Perth & Kinross	193.594
Renfrewshire	207.828
Scottish Borders	175.725
Shetland Islands	69.020
South Ayrshire	159.635
South Lanarkshire	275.118
Stirling	133.693
West Dunbartonshire	111.761
West Lothian	219.341
Scotland Total	7,158.587

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 2015-2016 (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 2014-2015 (article 4 and Schedule 2); and

(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2014 (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. 2014/36. Schedule 1 was amended by S.S.I. 2014/74.