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Local government finance: Budget 2024-25 and provisional allocations to local authorities
Author: Greig Liddell
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Published: Tuesday 06 Feb 2024 (SB 24-07)
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Sources of local authority funding
The 2024-25 Budget and the local government revenue settlement
Comparing 2024-25 to the 2023-24 settlement
Comparing 2024-25 to the 2013-14 settlement
Local government revenue budget as a percentage of Scottish Government revenue budget
Proportion of resource allocation that is ring-fenced or directed
Local government capital settlement
Individual local authority settlements
Change in allocations between 2023-24 and 2024-25
Local government revenue per head by local authority
Council tax freeze
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Image: Figure 1: Change in total revenue settlement since 2013-14 and change in total revenue settlement minus ring-fenced grants and directed in-year transfers (in real terms, %)
Image: Figure 2: Percentage of total revenue settlement either ring-fenced or transferred in-year
Image: Figure 3: revenue allocation per head as a % of the Scottish average
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