
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.
(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 2003, 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 Scottish Ministers.
2 
The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2003–2004 shall be £9,597,320.
3 

(1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2003 2004 shall be divided into 2 portions, the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”.
(2) The general portion shall amount to £5,596,032 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 2003 2004 assessed in the manner provided for in Schedule 2 to this Order.
(3) The hostel portion shall amount to £4,001,288 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 2003 2004 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).
DES McNULTY
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
4th March 2003
SCHEDULE 1
Article 3(2)

 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
 Shetland Islands
SCHEDULE 2
Article 3(2)
1 
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 the addition of the amounts specified in items 2 to 6 below less the amounts specified in items 7 and 8 below.
2 
Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the local authority’s housing revenue account for the year 2003–2004 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 other than loan charges in respect of hostels and lodging houses.
3 
For supervision and management–
(a) £236.38 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority; and
(b) for authorities with stocks of houses not exceeding 3,000 a supplementary amount of £94.55 per house.
4 
For repairs and maintenance, £659.39 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.
5 
Estimated rents lost because of unlet houses.
6 
Estimated other miscellaneous expenditure which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.
7 
£2386.01 multiplied by the number of the authority’s houses.
8 
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
 Angus
 Argyll and Bute
 Dumfries & Galloway
 Dundee City
 East Ayrshire
 East Renfrewshire
 City of Edinburgh
 Falkirk
 City of Glasgow
 Highland
 Inverclyde
 Moray
 North Ayrshire
 Perth and Kinross
 Renfrewshire
 Shetland Islands
 South Ayrshire
 South Lanarkshire
 Stirling