Scottish Executive Funding

– Scottish Parliament written question – answered at on 9 March 2007.

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Photo of Sylvia Jackson Sylvia Jackson Labour

Question S2W-32026

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cultural and related services grant aided expenditure and net revenue expenditure was for Stirling Council in each year since 1999.

Photo of Tom McCabe Tom McCabe Labour

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Grant Aided Expenditure Allocations

(£ Million)

Revenue Expenditure

(£ Million)

1999-2000

5.449 7.398

2000-01

5.430 7.971

2001-02

5.567 7.141

2002-03

5.930 7.890

2003-04

6.260 7.751

2004-05

6.559 8.872

2005-06

6.818 9.046

2006-07

6.688 -

Notes:

1. Grant Aided Expenditure (GAE) figures are from the GAE Green Books for 1999-2000 to 2006-07. The GAE allocations provided are derived from aggregating a number of sub-categories which together make up the cultural and related services GAE line.

2. Revenue expenditure is sourced from Local Financial Returns (LFR) 2 and 8, completed by local authorities, which cover culture and related services. Expenditure figures for 2006-07 are not yet available.

3. Revenue spending may differ from the GAE allocation amounts for a number of reasons. First, the GAE allocations given above are neither budgets nor spending targets for culture and related services. They are simply components used in distributing the total block grant that the Executive provides to local authorities. Second, it is for each local authority to decide how best to allocate the resulting overall block grant across all their services, based on local needs and priorities.

4. Although the total GAE provision for culture and related services in Scotland increased in 2006-07, Stirling’s share using the relative needs-based formula decreased.

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