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The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2008

Approved by the Scottish Parliament

Made

23rd January 2008

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

24th January 2008

Coming into force

8th February 2008

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of 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.

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2008 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Revenue support grant for 2008-2009

2.–(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2008-2009 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 2008-2009 shall be 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 2008-2009

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 2008 2009 is £1,962,800,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non-domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2008-2009 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 2008-2009 shall be 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 2007-2008

4.–(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2007-2008 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 2007-2008 shall be 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 2007(2) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of financial years 2007-2008) are revoked.

JOHN SWINNEY

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew´s House,

Edinburgh

23rd January 2008

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2008-2009

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Local Authority Amount of revenue support grant Amount of non-domestic rate income
£ £
Aberdeen City 229,303,000 79,357,000
Aberdeenshire 287,576,000 90,627,000
Angus 148,849,000 41,934,000
Argyll & Bute 170,011,000 35,056,000
Clackmannanshire 66,689,000 18,758,000
Dumfries & Galloway 220,587,000 56,783,000
Dundee City 219,461,000 54,535,000
East Ayrshire 167,404,000 45,759,000
East Dunbartonshire 126,922,000 40,454,000
East Lothian 119,991,000 35,609,000
East Renfrewshire 126,244,000 34,251,000
City of Edinburgh 523,182,000 177,798,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 93,506,000 10,108,000
Falkirk 193,561,000 57,416,000
Fife 463,355,000 137,682,000
Glasgow City 1,010,341,000 222,748,000
Highland 349,852,000 82,591,000
Inverclyde 128,168,000 31,278,000
Midlothian 114,643,000 30,415,000
Moray 116,117,000 33,277,000
North Ayrshire 200,237,000 51,973,000
North Lanarkshire 452,474,000 124,199,000
Orkney Islands 58,137,000 7,584,000
Perth & Kinross 171,087,000 53,776,000
Renfrewshire 241,705,000 65,053,000
Scottish Borders 155,388,000 42,287,000
Shetland Islands 81,264,000 8,393,000
South Ayrshire 144,985,000 42,836,000
South Lanarkshire 404,119,000 118,020,000
Stirling 123,639,000 33,683,000
West Dunbartonshire 147,523,000 34,999,000
West Lothian 209,108,000 63,561,000

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2007-2008

Column 1 Column 2
Local Authority Amount of revenue support grant
£
Aberdeen City 198,702,742
Aberdeenshire 249,027,534
Angus 128,836,867
Argyll & Bute 142,265,668
Clackmannanshire 55,500,940
Dumfries & Galloway 190,390,090
Dundee City 189,627,980
East Ayrshire 142,962,871
East Dunbartonshire 108,185,528
East Lothian 100,837,107
East Renfrewshire 105,976,177
City of Edinburgh 422,906,428
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 85,586,899
Falkirk 164,511,404
Fife 390,711,094
Glasgow City 850,318,470
Highland 299,041,977
Inverclyde 110,755,219
Midlothian 95,969,034
Moray 101,035,948
North Ayrshire 169,021,868
North Lanarkshire 384,716,120
Orkney Islands 51,714,004
Perth & Kinross 148,937,676
Renfrewshire 211,063,985
Scottish Borders 134,654,445
Shetland Islands 71,243,854
South Ayrshire 121,069,196
South Lanarkshire 340,908,606
Stirling 104,038,610
West Dunbartonshire 121,772,257
West Lothian 177,354,558

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 2008-2009 (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 2007-2008 (article 4 and Schedule 2);

(d) makes a consequential revocation in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2007 (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. Back [1]

(2)

S.S.I. 2007/65. Back [2]



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