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North
Ayrshire Council is set to receive an increase of 4.8% in Executive funding
in 2006-07.
The funding will allow North Ayrshire Council to meet
spending pressures and will increase the funding allocated to the
council in 2007/08 to £233.053m.
North Ayrshire Council is
set to receive an increase of 4.8% in Executive funding in 2006-07, thanks
to an announcement today of £250 million of additional benefits.
It includes new funding of £218 million (£157 million for revenue and £61
million for capital), and builds on the record levels of funding councils
have received since Devolution.
Local Labour MSP Allan Wilson says the announcement by the finance minister
would allow North Ayrshire Council to meet spending pressures and will
increase the funding allocated to the council in 2007/08 to £233.053m.
Speaking about the announcement from Parliament, Allan Wilson MSP said:
“North Ayrshire Council provides vital services to local residents and
today’s announcement means the council will be able to invest even more in
these services”.
“I am particularly pleased that North Ayrshire Council has agreed to use the
funds to deliver increased council tax collection rates, to continue to
exert downward pressure on council tax levels, to develop more effective
asset management strategies, to deliver increased efficiency savings and
review the delivery of free personal care.”
The Executive agreed to look again at funding for councils for 2007-08 and
in return, councils have given assurances to:
1. Take action to increase council tax collection rates.
2. Continue to exert downward pressure on council tax levels.
3. Ensure effective asset management strategies are in place.
4. Increase the target level of their efficiency savings by at least £61
million.
5. Work with the Executive to complete a study into the costs and identify
best practice in delivering free personal care.
Together with various other measures, including the decision to allow
councils to retain the benefits to them from successive cuts in business
rate poundage levels and the benefit they will receive from Executive
funding of the new 'Firelink' and e-planning systems, this means that local
government will now benefit in 2007-08 from a package of measures worth more
than £250 million.
Notes:
The £250 million of additional benefits includes new funding of £218 million
(£157 million for revenue and £61 million for
capital), and builds on the record levels of funding councils have received
since Devolution.
Full details of the settlement please visit the Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2006/12/13133331
Local Government
Settlement
AEF AEF
£m %
Share
06-07 07-08
incr'se incr'se
additn'l
£m £m
06-07 06-07
£157m
Aberdeen City
291.033 303.535 12.501
4.3% 5.749
Aberdeenshire
342.668 360.633 17.965
5.2% 6.987
Angus
173.361 182.297 8.935
5.2% 3.381
Argyll & Bute
175.107 182.389 7.283
4.2% 3.091
Clackm'nshire
74.085 78.144
4.058 5.5%
1.462
Dumfries &
Galloway
251.025 262.479 11.454
4.6% 4.713
Dundee City
253.072 263.497 10.424
4.1% 4.588
East Ayrshire
193.039 201.961 8.922
4.6% 3.823
East Dunbartonshire 152.338 158.975
6.636 4.4%
3.181
East Lothian
134.791 142.004 7.213
5.4% 2.689
East
Renfrewshire
137.384 144.258 6.874
5.0% 2.810
Edinburgh
629.886 658.379 28.493
4.5% 11.789
Eilean Siar
96.738 100.261
3.524 3.6%
1.406
Falkirk
225.706 237.574
11.868 5.3%
4.307
Fife
536.744 565.530
28.785 5.4%
10.585
Glasgow
1,137.561 1,183.691 46.130
4.1% 19.181
Highland
390.058 409.459
19.401 5.0%
6.481
Inverclyde
145.889 152.371
6.482 4.4%
2.659
Midlothian
127.536 133.920
6.384 5.0%
2.529
Moray
137.875 145.089
7.214 5.2%
2.673
North Ayrshire
222.300 233.053
10.753 4.8%
4.287
North
Lanarkshire
513.147 539.013
25.866 5.0%
9.874
Orkney
58.510 61.071
2.560 4.4%
1.542
Perth & Kinross 206.198
217.231 11.033
5.4% 4.092
Renfrewshire 272.644
285.741 13.097
4.8% 5.228
Scottish
Borders
181.825 191.465
9.640 5.3%
3.537
Shetland
79.562 82.882
3.320 4.2%
1.537
South Ayrshire 168.429
176.543 8.114
4.8% 3.339
South
Lanarkshire
466.130 488.231
22.101 4.7%
9.045
Stirling
138.696 145.935
7.239 5.2%
2.704
West
Dunbartonshire 163.864
170.816 6.952
4.2% 3.095
West Lothian 244.915
256.988 12.072
4.9% 4.837
Scotland
8,322.115 8,715.410 393.295
4.7% 157.201
Minimum increase 3.6%
Maximum increase 5.5%
The provisional local government finance settlement for 2007-08 announced by
Ministers in February 2006 provided for revenue increases of £239 million,
or 2.9 per cent, over 2006-07.
The sums announced today mean that the increase in revenue funding will
amount to £393 million, an increase of 4.7 per cent, and include an
additional £17 million, mainly for educational services over what was
previously announced in the settlement.
Together with the impact of the poundage rate cuts (worth an estimated £10
million to local authorities themselves) and the additional £17 million
mentioned above, this group of further provisions is worth over £50 million
in 2007-08.
Local authorities are also now taking advantage of the greater freedoms
provided under the "Prudential regime" which Ministers introduced from April
1, 2004, to undertake further self-supported borrowing for capital
expenditure, subject to affordability.
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