Bellwin Scheme: guidance and application form

Guidance for local authorities on making applications under the Bellwin Scheme for emergency financial assistance.


Threshold amounts: 2023 to 2024

Information about the threshold levels for the Bellwin Scheme for providing emergency financial assistance to local authorities.

Calculation of the threshold levels

  1. Expenditure threshold levels have been applied to the Scheme from its inception on the assumption that local authorities will budget to cover a proportion of the costs of emergency incidents from within internal resources.
  2. Threshold levels apply to the whole financial year, not to each incident within the financial year.
  3. The threshold levels will represent 0.2% of a local authority's budgeted net revenue expenditure and, for 2023-2024, are as follows:
     

Local authority

Threshold level (£s)

Aberdeen City

983,650

Aberdeenshire

1,262,730

Angus

573,240

Argyll & Bute

528,662

Clackmannanshire

268,500

Dumfries & Galloway

784,544

Dundee City

753,196

East Ayrshire

610,552

East Dunbartonshire

585,780

East Lothian

537,772

East Renfrewshire

535,674

Edinburgh, City of

2,248,044

Eilean Siar

226,160

Falkirk

809,130

Fife

1,835,298

Glasgow City

3,226,738

Highland

1,288,662

Inverclyde

418,016

Midlothian

490,322

Moray

478,226

North Ayrshire

740,588

North Lanarkshire

1,725,304

Orkney Islands

191,464

Perth & Kinross

797,780

Renfrewshire

917,844

Scottish Borders

589,564

Shetland Islands

212,388

South Ayrshire

635,534

South Lanarkshire

1,586,738

Stirling

512,862

West Dunbartonshire

489,588

West Lothian

913,252

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