
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.
(2) In this Order–
(a) “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 1997 relates; and
(b) 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.
2 
The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1997-98 shall be £15,249,094.
3 

(1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1997-98 shall be divided into 2 portions, the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”.
(2) The general portion shall amount to £11,930,678 and shall be apportioned among the local authorities listed in Schedule 1 to this Order according to their respective estimated net expenditures for the year 1997-98 assessed in the manner provided for in Schedule 2 to this Order.
(3) The hostel portion shall amount to £3,318,416 and shall be apportioned among the local authorities listed in Schedule 3 to this Order according to their respective estimated net expenditures for the year 1997-98 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).
Raymond S Robertson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
10th March 1997We consent,
Bowan Wells
Patrick McLoughlin
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
13th March 1997
SCHEDULE 1
Article 3(2)

 Highland
 Shetland Islands
 Western Isles
SCHEDULE 2
Article 3(2)
The estimated net expenditure of a local authority listed in Schedule 1 to this Order for the purposes of apportionment of the general portion 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.

1 
Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the local authority’s housing revenue account for the year 1997-98 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) £203.13 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) £81.25 in the case of an authority with not more than 3,000 houses;
(ii) £40.63 in the case of an authority with more than 3,000 but not more than 6,000 houses; or
(iii) £20.31 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) £567.79 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority; and
(b) supplementary amounts of–
(i) £880.07 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats of 15 or more storeys; and
(ii) £397.45 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats of 5 or more but less than 15 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.
6 
£2,047.50 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 income other than rental income which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.
SCHEDULE 3
Article 3(3)

 Aberdeen City
 Aberdeenshire
 Argyll and Bute
 City of Edinburgh
 Dumfries and Galloway
 Dundee City
 East Ayrshire
 East Renfrewshire
 Falkirk
 Fife
 Highland
 Inverclyde
 Moray
 Perth and Kinross
 North Ayrshire
 Renfrewshire
 Shetland Islands
 South Ayrshire
 South Lanarkshire
 Stirling