Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics 2001-2002
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Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics 2001-2002
TABLE 2A Summary of revenue expenditure and income 2001-021 | Thousands |
| General fund2 services | Housing | Trading services | Special3 funds |
Expenditure |
Employee costs | 4,465,321 | 181,558 | 18,898 | 630 |
Operating expenses4 | 3,855,751 | 1,714,971 | 33,987 | 731,778 |
Loan charges | 739,351 | 367,197 | 4,867 | 21 |
Revenue contributions to capital | 56,817 | 78,117 | 4,384 | 37,327 |
General fund contributions to housing and trading services5 | 4,794 | . | 5,411 | . |
Support service costs | 374,541 | 56,828 | 2,569 | 418 |
Other | . | . | - | 659,688 |
Adjustment for inter account and inter authority transfers6 | -375,235 | -30,690 | -3,350 | -4,186 |
Total expenditure | 9,121,341 | 2,367,982 | 66,766 | 1,425,676 |
Income |
Non-domestic rates7 | 1,553,926 | . | . | . |
Council tax | 1,363,399 | . | . | . |
Government grant: | Revenue Support Grant ( RSG)8 | 3,935,328 | . | . | . |
| Council Tax rebate grants9 | 285,131 | . | . | . |
| Other grants and subsidies | 1,022,339 | 1,038,780 | 177 | . |
Sales, fees and charges | 620,601 | 1,116,348 | 52,480 | 6,260 |
Contributions from general fund | . | 582 | 13,631 | 135,232 |
Other income | 424,765 | 120,603 | 4,733 | 1,625,977 |
| Increase on revenue balances | . | 3,918 | . | . |
Total income | 9,205,490 | 2,280,231 | 71,021 | 1,767,469 |
Changes in revenue balances (income minus expenditure) | 84,149 | -87,751 | 4,255 | 341,793 |
1 Revenue expenditure is recorded on an accruals basis.
2 Includes non-housing revenue account housing (non-HRA) expenditure and general fund contributions to housing and other services.
3 Including superannuation and common good funds.
4 Including transfer payments.
5 Excluding contributions to transport undertakings which are included as operating expenses on the Roads and Transport Account (see table 4).
6 All inter account and inter authority transactions are deducted from expenditure.
7 This is the Distributable Amount as per the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2001
8 Re-determined as per Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2002.
9 Council tax rebates paid by DWP.
10 As defined in Appendix B of the Report to the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2001 and as returned by local authorities.
Specific grants total 648 million; other grants 375 million.
11 Includes transfers from trading revenue accounts.
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