Publication - Statistics

The Funding of Local Government in Scotland, 2024-2025

Published: 29 February 2024
From: Chief Statistician, +1 more … Director of Local Government and Housing
Directorate: Local Government and Housing Directorate, +1 more … Public Spending Directorate
Topic: Economy, Money and tax, Public sector, +1 more … Scottish Budget

Overview of the calculation of funding for local government, 2024-25.

Summary of the data used to distribute the 2024-25 settlement

Total population £438m

Age-based subsets of population £1.95bn

Population adjusted for visitors £656m

Urban population £25m

Rural population £178m

Total pupil numbers £1.07bn

Subsets of pupil numbers £2.88bn

Other school data £851m

Deprivation (DWP data) £540m

Deprivation (SIMD data) £426m

Deprivation (SSS data) £334m

Deprivation (FSM data) £264m

Deprivation (other data) £496m

Homelessness data £212m

Roads data £403m

Dwellings & Council Tac bands £444m

Children in lone parent families £175m

Loans and contract costs £590m

Elderly mortality, morbidity and living alone £1.85bn

Other data £367m

Historical allocations £85m

SG allocation, calculation or bid process £953m

Flat rate £31m

For other organisations £23m

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