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This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2016 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
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(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 2016-2017 is £2,768,500,000.
(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non‑domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2016-2017 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 2016-2017 is 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.
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(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2015-2016 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 2015-2016 is the amount redetermined in relation to that local authority set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.
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Article 2 of, and column 2 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2015 (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2015-2016) are revoked.
JOHN SWINNEY
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
1st March 2016
SCHEDULE 1
Articles 2 and 3


Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Local Authority ... Amount of non‑domestic rate income
 ... £m
Aberdeen City . . . 215.586
Aberdeenshire . . . 98.451
Angus . . . 29.410
Argyll & Bute . . . 30.446
Clackmannanshire . . . 16.269
Dumfries & Galloway . . . 47.992
Dundee City . . . 71.011
East Ayrshire . . . 30.239
East Dunbartonshire . . . 25.550
East Lothian . . . 24.370
East Renfrewshire . . . 15.623
Edinburgh (City of) . . . 374.650
Eilean Siar . . . 8.020
Falkirk . . . 68.028
Fife . . . 183.331
Glasgow City . . . 373.351
Highland . . . 127.682
Inverclyde . . . 23.331
Midlothian . . . 32.026
Moray . . . 35.582
North Ayrshire . . . 41.459
North Lanarkshire . . . 120.544
Orkney Islands . . . 9.869
Perth & Kinross . . . 57.555
Renfrewshire . . . 96.106
Scottish Borders . . . 33.594
Shetland Islands . . . 17.822
South Ayrshire . . . 40.755
South Lanarkshire . . . 303.113
Stirling . . . 46.216
West Dunbartonshire . . . 82.793
West Lothian . . . 87.726
Scotland Total . . . 2,768.500
SCHEDULE 2
Article 4


Column 1 Column 2
Local Authority Amount of revenue support grant
 £m
Aberdeen City 130.618
Aberdeenshire 324.275
Angus 176.708
Argyll & Bute 176.473
Clackmannanshire 81.766
Dumfries & Galloway 245.581
Dundee City 237.825
East Ayrshire 200.279
East Dunbartonshire 163.375
East Lothian 147.620
East Renfrewshire 165.425
Edinburgh (City of) 354.576
Eilean Siar 93.467
Falkirk 223.140
Fife 478.560
Glasgow City 887.888
Highland 331.287
Inverclyde 147.211
Midlothian 124.498
Moray 124.550
North Ayrshire 234.519
North Lanarkshire 508.249
Orkney Islands 61.439
Perth & Kinross 194.219
Renfrewshire 211.713
Scottish Borders 178.319
Shetland Islands 70.155
South Ayrshire 163.697
South Lanarkshire 259.966
Stirling 123.484
West Dunbartonshire 108.034
West Lothian 217.938
Scotland Total 7,146.854