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Local Government Finance: Budget 2020-21 and provisional allocations to local authorities
Author: Allan Campbell, Ailsa Burn-Murdoch and Kayleigh Finnigan
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Published: Friday 14 Feb 2020 (SB 20-16)
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Executive summary
Understanding the local government budget
Presenting the figures
The local government funding formula
Budget 2020-21 - Local government funding
Local government total allocations
Our approach
Change in the local government budget from 2019-20
Headline figures
COSLA's response
Historic changes
Non-Domestic Rates and Council Tax
Allocations to local authorities
Provisional Revenue allocations
Real terms change, 2019-20 to 2020-21
Revenue allocations per head
Percentage of the Scottish average
Provisional Capital allocations
Annex
Table 1 - Local Government funding
Table 2 - Local government and Scottish Government revenue comparison, 2013-14 to 2020-21
Table 3 - Provisional Revenue allocations
Table 4 - Provisional Revenue allocations, per head
Table 5 - Provisional Capital allocations
Abbreviations
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Image: Figure 1: Total Scottish Government funding for Local Government, 2020-21
Image: Figure 2: Real terms change in the Local Government budget, 2019-20 to 2020-21
Image: Figure 3 - Local government and Scottish Government revenue comparison, 2013-14 to 2020-21, real terms
Image: Figure 4 - Local government and Scottish Government revenue comparison, year on year change, 2013-14 to 2020-21, real terms
Image: Figure 5: Provisional revenue allocations 2020-21, real terms change in total revenue support
Image: Figure 6 - Provisional Revenue allocations 2020-21 - £ per head
Image: Figure 7 - Provisional Revenue allocations 2020-21 - % of the Scottish average
Image: Figure 8: Provisional capital allocations 2020-21, real terms change in total capital support
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