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Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics 1998-1999
TABLE 2A Summary of revenue expenditure
and income 1998-991 | £
Thousands |
| | General
fund2services | Housing
| Trading services
| Special3
funds | | Expenditure
| | Employee costs |
3,872,622 | 144,710
| 19,002 |
393 | | Operating
expenses4 | 2,952,700
| 1,496,128 |
51,326 | 578,448
| | Loan charges |
709,705 | 438,556
| 4,897 |
21 | | Revenue contributions
to capital | 86,821 |
87,852 | 16,179
| 26,997 | |
General fund contributions to housing and trading services5 |
25,889 | .
| 13,951 |
. | | Support service
costs | 324,163 |
50,354 | 2,863
| 359 | |
Other | . |
. | - |
365,606 | | Adjustment
for inter account and inter authority transfers6 |
-242,319 | -24,358
| -28,574 |
-1,753 | | Total
expenditure | 7,729,581
| 2,193,242 |
79,644 | 970,071
| | | |
Income | | Non-domestic
rates 7 | 1,395,228
| . |
. | . |
| Council tax |
1,146,366 | .
| . |
. | | Government
grant:
Revenue Support Grant ( RSG) 8 | |
3,483,815 | .
| . | |
Council Tax rebate grants9 | 274,940
| . |
. | . |
| Other grants and subsidies |
690,56910 | 948,232
| . |
21 | | Sales |
30,716 | 1,212
| 6,992 |
27 | | Fees and
charges incl. rents | 465,740
| 1,151,412 |
49,629 | 3,935
| | Contributions from general fund
| . |
23,195 | 11,555
| 111,49511 |
| Other income |
283,476 | 34,943
| 6,521 |
1,985,028 | | Increase
on revenue balances | . |
6,035 | . |
. | | Total income
| 7,770,850 |
2,165,029 | 74,697
| 2,100,506 |
| Changes in revenue balances (income minus
expenditure) | 41,269 |
-28,213 | -4,947
| 1,130,435 | 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). Including contributions to reserve fund of £13.6 million
in respect of the trading services column.
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 1998
8 Re-determined
as per Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1999.
9 Council tax rebates
paid by DSS.
10 As defined in Appendix B of the Report to the Local Government
Finance (Scotland) Order 1998 and as returned by local authorities. Specific grants
total £468 million; other grants £222 million. Figures for other grants have increased
significantly since 1997-98 due to a change in reporting of grants in aid of non
Local Authority Passenger Transport.
11 Includes transfers from trading
revenue accounts. 
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