
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1st April 2007.
(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 a local authority, at 30th September 2007, 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 Scottish Ministers.
2 
The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2007–2008 shall be £1,800,909.
3 
Housing support grants for the year 2007–2008 shall be paid to Shetland Islands Council according to its estimated net expenditure for the year 2007–2008 assessed in the manner provided for in the Schedule.
RHONA BRANKIN
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
14th March 2007
SCHEDULE
Article 3
1 
The estimated net expenditure for the purposes of apportionment of the housing support grants 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 2007–2008 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.
3 
For supervision and management–
(a) £267.44 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority; and
(b) for local authorities with stocks of houses not exceeding 3,000 a supplementary amount of £106.97 per house.
4 
For repairs and maintenance, £746.04 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 local authority’s housing revenue account.
7 
£2,699.55 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.
8 
Estimated income other than rental income which may properly be included in the local authority’s housing revenue account.