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Published by The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body
Local government finance: Budget 2025-26 and provisional allocations to local authorities
Author: Greig Liddell
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Published: Friday 20 Dec 2024 (SB 24-60)
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Introduction
Sources of local authority funding
Local government revenue settlement
Comparing 2025-26 to the 2024-25 settlement
Comparing Budgets over the past 13 years
Local government revenue budget as a percentage of Scottish Government revenue budget
Local government capital settlement
Individual local authority settlements
Change in revenue allocations between 2024-25 and 2025-26
Change in allocations over the past 13 years
Local government revenue per head by local authority
Local Government performance and public service reform
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Image: Chart 1: percentage of total revenue which is either formally ring-fenced or transferred in-year
Image: Chart 2: changes to provisional revenue allocation by local government since 2013-14 (in real terms, %)
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