Statutory Instruments
1996 No. 755 (S.86)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND
The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1996

Made
12th February 1996

Laid before the House of Commons
14th February 1996

Coming into force
10th March 1996

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraphs 1 and 9(4) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be appropriate in accordance with paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1996 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.

Revenue support grant for 1996-97

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 1996-97 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order.

(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order in respect of the financial year 1996-97 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 1996-97

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 1996-97 is £1,313,035,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non-domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 1996-97 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order.

(3) The amount of non-domestic rate income distributed to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order in respect of the financial year 1996-97 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 1995-96

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 1995-96 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order.

(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order in respect of the financial year 1995-96 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.

Revenue support grant for 1994-95

5.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 1994-95 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order.

(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order in respect of the financial year 1994-95 shall be the amount redetermined 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 1993-94

6.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 1993-94 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order.

(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order in respect of the financial year 1993-94 shall be the amount redetermined in relation to that local authority set out in column 4 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Revocations

7.  The following provisions (which previously determined and redetermined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial years 1993-94, 1994-95 and 1995-96) are hereby revoked—

(a)in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1994(2), article 2 and Schedule 1; and

(b)in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1995(3), articles 2, 4 and 5 and Schedule 1.

Michael Forsyth
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
7th February 1996

We consent,

Bowen Wells
Liam Fox
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
12th February 1996

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON-DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 1996-97

Column 1
Column 2
Column 3

Local Authority
Amount of revenue support grant
Amount of non-domestic rate income

£
£

Aberdeen City
124,961,000
56,050,000

Aberdeenshire
130,879,000
57,834,000

Angus
64,016,000
28,589,000

Argyll & Bute
79,884,000
23,409,000

Clackmannanshire
31,709,000
12,497,000

Dumfries & Galloway
103,354,000
37,812,000

Dundee City
117,856,000
38,695,000

East Ayrshire
84,299,000
31,608,000

East Dunbartonshire
59,699,000
28,308,000

East Lothian
51,351,000
22,206,000

East Renfrewshire
45,215,000
22,314,000

City of Edinburgh
248,149,000
113,487,000

Falkirk
85,614,000
36,464,000

Fife
221,694,000
90,079,000

City of Glasgow
598,763,000
159,507,000

Highland
172,903,000
53,085,000

Inverclyde
71,923,000
22,866,000

Midlothian
52,232,000
20,469,000

Moray
58,593,000
22,347,000

North Ayrshire
94,206,000
35,584,000

North Lanarkshire
229,203,000
83,596,000

Orkney
31,598,000
5,068,000

Perth & Kinross
72,875,000
33,770,000

Renfrewshire
118,802,000
45,318,000

Scottish Borders
75,337,000
27,042,000

Shetland
40,861,000
5,853,000

South Ayrshire
71,384,000
29,257,000

South Lanarkshire
205,517,000
78,671,000

Stirling
57,873,000
20,983,000

West Dunbartonshire
80,907,000
24,857,000

West Lothian
99,997,000
37,912,000

Western Isles
56,854,000
7,498,000

Articles 4 to 6

SCHEDULE 2REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 1995-96, 1994-95 AND 1993-94

Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4

Local Authority
Amount 1995-96
Amount 1994-95
Amount 1993-94

£
£
£

Regional Councils

Borders
66,403,000
67,146,000
64,822,000

Central
145,003,000
147,067,000
137,025,000

Dumfries & Galloway
91,561,000
92,364,000
87,884,000

Fife
189,354,000
191,036,000
180,430,000

Grampian
262,909,000
264,598,000
251,140,000

Highland
152,314,000
150,515,000
147,475,000

Lothian
360,956,000
363,650,000
341,688,000

Strathclyde
1,338,350,000
1,351,160,000
1,273,898,000

Tayside
218,504,000
219,557,000
206,283,000

District Councils

Berwickshire
2,327,000
2,298,000
2,220,000

Ettrick & Lauderdale
3,886,000
3,950,000
3,666,000

Roxburgh
4,508,000
4,412,000
4,165,000

Tweeddale
1,989,000
1,843,000
1,561,000

Clackmannan
6,686,000
6,956,000
6,964,000

Falkirk
18,123,000
18,654,000
18,701,000

Stirling
13,144,000
13,651,000
13,315,000

Annandale & Eskdale
3,636,000
3,667,000
3,777,000

Nithsdale
6,383,000
6,593,000
6,403,000

Stewartry
2,269,000
2,406,000
2,322,000

Wigtown
3,927,000
4,040,000
4,056,000

Dunfermline
15,206,000
15,688,000
15,910,000

Kirkcaldy
19,148,000
18,292,000
19,177,000

North East Fife
9,469,000
9,366,000
8,967,000

Aberdeen City
30,186,000
30,487,000
31,632,000

Banff & Buchan
10,483,000
10,440,000
10,339,000

Gordon
8,854,000
8,955,000
8,825,000

Kincardine & Deeside
5,924,000
5,679,000
5,418,000

Moray
11,304,000
10,974,000
10,836,000

Badenoch & Strathspey
1,500,000
1,374,000
1,173,000

Caithness
3,485,000
3,541,000
3,527,000

Inverness
7,223,000
7,089,000
6,476,000

Lochaber
3,244,000
3,030,000
2,916,000

Nairn
1,215,000
1,151,000
1,101,000

Ross & Cromarty
8,678,000
8,170,000
8,016,000

Skye & Lochalsh
2,447,000
2,339,000
2,201,000

Sutherland
2,347,000
2,242,000
2,183,000

East Lothian
11,493,000
11,710,000
11,592,000

Edinburgh City
80,180,000
77,376,000
78,645,000

Midlothian
9,926,000
10,197,000
10,686,000

West Lothian
19,705,000
20,156,000
20,112,000

Argyll & Bute
14,461,000
14,014,000
13,705,000

Bearsden & Milngavie
3,923,000
4,310,000
4,147,000

Clydebank
7,253,000
7,669,000
7,951,000

Clydesdale
7,968,000
8,057,000
8,069,000

Cumbernauld & Kilsyth
7,734,000
7,814,000
7,799,000

Cumnock & Doon Valley
5,946,000
6,072,000
6,075,000

Cunninghame
20,547,000
20,661,000
20,892,000

Dumbarton
9,967,000
10,452,000
10,294,000

East Kilbride
10,800,000
9,240,000
9,063,000

Eastwood
4,856,000
4,949,000
5,004,000

Glasgow City
151,035,000
156,236,000
158,077,000

Hamilton
15,718,000
14,787,000
14,828,000

Inverclyde
15,746,000
15,231,000
14,636,000

Kilmarnock & Loudoun
10,466,000
10,281,000
10,516,000

Kyle & Carrick
14,214,000
14,728,000
15,009,000

Monklands
16,337,000
17,174,000
18,057,000

Motherwell
21,118,000
21,459,000
22,286,000

Renfrew
27,495,000
28,986,000
29,793,000

Strathkelvin
10,131,000
10,607,000
10,790,000

Angus
10,999,000
11,310,000
11,114,000

Dundee City
27,889,000
29,626,000
30,268,000

Perth & Kinross
16,192,000
16,536,000
15,978,000

Islands Councils

Orkney
131,628,000
130,238,000
128,877,000

Shetland
141,695,000
140,304,000
136,442,000

Western Isles
158,200,000
157,007,000
154,930,000

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 1996-97 (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 years 1995-96, 1994-95 and 1993-94 (articles 4 to 6 and Schedule 2); and
(d)makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1994 and the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1995 (article 7).


(1)
1992 c. 14.

(2)
S.I. 1994/528.

(3)
S.I. 1995/391.