The Budget (Scotland) Act 2023 Amendment Regulations 2024

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 99

Public Finance And Accountability

The Budget (Scotland) Act 2023 Amendment Regulations 2024

Made

22nd March 2024

Coming into force

23rd March 2024

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 7(1) of the Budget (Scotland) Act 2023(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 2023 Amendment Regulations 2024 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 2023.

Amendment of amounts specified in section 4

2.  In section 4 (overall cash authorisations) of the Act—

(a) for the amount specified in subsection (2) (the Scottish Administration), substitute “£52,607,367,000”,

(b) for the amount specified in subsection (3)(a) (the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body), substitute “£117,709,000”,

(c) for the amount specified in subsection (3)(b) (Audit Scotland), substitute “£11,152,000”.

Amendment of schedule 1

3.—(1) Schedule 1 (the Scottish Administration) of the Act is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In column 1 (purposes) of the table—

(a) in relation to purpose 2—

(i) after “relating to housing;” insert “funding for the Scottish Fuel Poverty Advisory Panel;”,

(ii) after “social landlords;” insert “funding the operation of the Scottish Housing Regulator so that it can meet its statutory objectives;”,

(iii) for “participatory budgeting;” substitute “assessment and remediation of certain types of buildings with unsafe cladding; development of a register to document the assessment and completion of remediation of unsafe cladding and to establish one or more schemes to require developers to contribute towards such assessment and remediation;”,

(b) in relation to purpose 4, for “for employment support programmes” substitute “to support people and businesses to develop and apply their skills”,

(c) in relation to purpose 9—

(i) after “local government governance;” insert “supporting the delivery of statutory functions for Ministerial oversight of the Planning system; supporting regeneration policy and targeted investment to tackle inequalities and support inclusive economic development;”,

(ii) for “performance, delivery and resilience” substitute “strategy, performance and delivery”,

(iii) omit “funding of a strategy function which supports effective policy across the organisation;”.

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

(a) for the amount specified—

(i) in relation to purpose 1, substitute “19,073,727,000”,

(ii) in relation to purpose 2, substitute “6,674,486,500”,

(iii) in relation to purpose 3, substitute “1,323,973,000”,

(iv) in relation to purpose 4, substitute “5,174,359,770”,

(v) in relation to purpose 5, substitute “3,367,491,000”,

(vi) in relation to purpose 6, substitute “4,068,650,000”,

(vii) in relation to purpose 7, substitute “1,146,282,000”,

(viii) in relation to purpose 8, substitute “272,456,000”,

(ix) in relation to purpose 9, substitute “12,946,416,000”,

(x) in relation to purpose 10, substitute “209,493,000”,

(xi) in relation to purpose 11, substitute “32,535,000”,

(xii) in relation to purpose 13, substitute “5,413,000”,

(xiii) in relation to purpose 14, substitute “197,503,000”,

(xiv) in relation to purpose 15, substitute “2,459,000”,

(xv) in relation to purpose 17, substitute “23,220,000”,

(xvi) in relation to purpose 18, substitute “3,760,809,000”,

(xvii) in relation to purpose 19, substitute “11,126,000”,

(xviii) in relation to purpose 20, substitute “3,553,000”,

(b) in the final row, in relation to the total amount of resources, substitute “58,308,024,270”.

Amendment of schedule 2

4.—(1) The table in schedule 2 (direct-funded bodies) of the Act is amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

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

(a) in relation to purpose 1, substitute “132,890,000”,

(b) in relation to purpose 2, substitute “18,500,000”.

TOM ARTHUR

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

22nd March 2024

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Budget (Scotland) Act 2023 (“the Act”).

Regulation 2 amends the overall cash authorisations specified in section 4 of the Act.

Regulation 3(2) amends purposes 2, 4 and 9 in schedule 1 of the Act for which the Scottish Ministers may use resources in the financial year 2023/24.

Regulation 3(3) amends the amounts of resources other than accruing resources that may be used for purposes 1 to 15 and 17 to 20 in schedule 1 of the Act. It also amends the total amount of resources for all the purposes in that schedule.

Regulation 4 amends the amount of resources other than accruing resources that may be used for purposes 1 and 2 in schedule 2 of the Act.

(1)

2023 asp 2, as amended by S.S.I. 2023/357.