The Funding of Local Government in Scotland, 2025-2026

Who will receive extra support from the Floor in 2025-26?

This chart shows what each council’s change in allocation would have been, and what it is after we had set the Floor.

In 2025-26, 23 councils pay into the pool, so they will receive less grant than they would have otherwise.

9 councils gain from the pool, so they will receive more grant than they would have otherwise.

No council actually received worse than a 1% increase due to the formula. But when we calculate the percentage change between this year and last year, we also include last year’s Floor payments. 

This means that there would be these large reductions if we didn’t have a Floor this year. So the Floor is not just protecting against changes due to the funding formula, but is also protecting allocations that have historically been higher than the funding formula currently gives.