| Chapter 14 finance |
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| Local Government Finance |
| 14.1 Tables 14A1, 14A2,
14A3, 14A4 and 14A5 were compiled from information supplied to The Scottish Office
under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. Most of the information covers
transactions of regional, district and island area councils, and joint boards and
committees of such authorities. The information in table 14A4 relates to the new
Unitary Authorities. |
| 14.2 Definitions of the technical terms
within the Government Expenditure section are given below: |
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| General Government
Expenditure |
| 14.3 General Government Expenditure (GGE) is
the combined expenditure of central government and local authorities, excluding payments
between the two sectors. It includes central government’s contribution (ie grants,
subsidies and loans) to the financing requirements of nationalised industries and other
public corporations. |
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| Identifiable Government
Expenditure |
| 14.4 Expenditure is defined to be
identifiable if official records show that it has been incurred on behalf of the
population of a particular part of the UK. Identifiable GGE in Scotland in table 14B1, includes expenditure within the responsibility of The Scottish Office and
expenditure by other departments which can be identified as having been incurred in
Scotland. An example of the latter is social security benefits. |
| 14.5 Further information is available in the
free booklet ‘Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland 1995/96’ published
by the Scottish Office (0141 242 5446). |
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| Regional Preferential
Assistance |
| 14.6 Regional Preferential Assistance (RPA),
in table 14B2, covers the main instruments of regional industrial policy.
Although more widely defined in the past, those included in the most recent years are:
Regional Development Grants, Regional Selective Assistance and Regional Enterprise Grant
under the Industrial Development Act 1982, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and
Scottish Enterprise (SE) expenditure on land and factory building in Assisted Areas, and
grants by the HIE under Section 8 of the Highlands and Islands Development Scotland Act
1965 to firms in Assisted Areas. |
