- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to ensure that there is renewable energy capability in each public building.
Answer
The Scottish Sustainable Procurement Action Plan raises awareness that there are opportunities for the public sector to lead by example in sourcing renewable energy systems, where appropriate.
We have recently introduced new building regulations to deliver a 30 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions from new buildings and in many cases, compliance will involve use of renewable technologies.
We have provided some £13.5 million over the last two years to fund our Community and Renewable Energy scheme which provides free and independent advice as well as grants. Community based not-for-profit organisations, including local authorities and other public bodies, are eligible.
With Scottish Government funding, the Carbon Trust provides energy efficiency and emissions saving support to the public sector in Scotland. This includes advice on the installation of renewables technologies, where appropriate. In addition, the Central Energy Efficiency Fund continues to provides interest-free loans for local authorities, NHS boards and Scottish Water to invest in energy saving and renewables measures.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3F-2634 by Alex Salmond on 7 October 2010 (Official Report c. 29451), how many businesses successfully appealed following the 2005 rates revaluation and what proportion of all appeals this represents.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3F-2634 by Alex Salmond on 7 October 2010 (Official Report c. 29451), what the rateable values were of businesses that successfully appealed following the 2005 revaluation (a) before and (b) after they appealed.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 20 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3F-2634 by Alex Salmond on 7 October 2010 (Official Report c. 29451), what the basis is for the statement that the rateable values of the businesses that successfully appealed following rates revaluation in 2005 were reduced by just under four per cent.
Answer
For the period 1 April 2005 to 30 June 2010, the total original rateable value for all properties that appealed was £3,266 million. The total revised rateable value of all those properties after appeals were determined is £3,140 million. This is a 3.9% reduction in rateable value.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 7 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total non-domestic rates payable were in each local authority area as of 1 April 2009
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36251 on 7 October 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 7 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what change there was in the non-domestic rates income of each local authority from 1 April 2010
Answer
The following table shows the change in business rates income distributed between 2009-10 and 2010-11 broken down by local authority.
The figures for 2010-11 use the latest forecast of net income from non-domestic rates in 2010-11 and also draw on council estimates of the amounts they will contribute to the pool from non-domestic rates in 2009-10. Included in the estimated figures are a calculation of gross income, expected losses from appeals and estimated expenditure on mandatory and other reliefs as well as write-offs and provision of bad debt.
The actual income distributed to councils also takes into account prior year adjustments for under and over-payments to the non-domestic rate pool as result of councils collecting more or less non-domestic rates than estimated.
Business Rate Income Distributed 2009-11
| | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | Change from 2009-10 to 2010-11 |
| Local Authority | £ Million | £ Million | £ Million |
| Aberdeen City | 88.1 | 84.2 | -3.9 |
| Aberdeenshire | 100.7 | 96.6 | -4.1 |
| Angus | 46.2 | 44.1 | -2.1 |
| Argyll & Bute | 38.4 | 36.2 | -2.2 |
| Clackmannanshire | 21 | 20.2 | -0.8 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 62.4 | 59.5 | -2.9 |
| Dundee City | 59.8 | 57.0 | -2.8 |
| East Ayrshire | 50.3 | 48.0 | -2.3 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 44.1 | 41.9 | -2.2 |
| East Lothian | 39.7 | 38.5 | -1.2 |
| East Renfrewshire | 37.6 | 35.7 | -1.9 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 197 | 188.7 | -8.3 |
| Eilean Siar | 11.1 | 10.5 | -0.6 |
| Falkirk | 63.4 | 60.7 | -2.7 |
| Fife | 151.7 | 144.8 | -6.9 |
| Glasgow City | 244.9 | 233.8 | -11.1 |
| Highland | 91.5 | 87.8 | -3.7 |
| Inverclyde | 34.1 | 32.3 | -1.8 |
| Midlothian | 33.5 | 32.2 | -1.3 |
| Moray | 36.6 | 35.1 | -1.5 |
| North Ayrshire | 57.1 | 54.3 | -2.8 |
| North Lanarkshire | 136.7 | 130.3 | -6.4 |
| Orkney | 8.4 | 8.0 | -0.4 |
| Perth and Kinross | 59.8 | 57.7 | -2.1 |
| Renfrewshire | 71.4 | 68.0 | -3.4 |
| Scottish Borders | 46.9 | 45.0 | -1.9 |
| Shetland | 9.2 | 8.8 | -0.4 |
| South Ayrshire | 47 | 44.7 | -2.3 |
| South Lanarkshire | 130.3 | 124.1 | -6.2 |
| Stirling | 37.1 | 35.4 | -1.7 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 38.3 | 36.4 | -1.9 |
| West Lothian | 70.6 | 67.8 | -2.8 |
Note: The figures above are taken or calculated from relevant annual local government finance circulars issued by the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 7 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what net increase there has been in non-domestic rateable values in each local authority area as a result of rates revaluation from 1 April 2010
Answer
It is not possible to split out changes in rateable values which are solely due to the 2010 revaluation.
Rateable values will vary when compared across any given time period, including a revaluation period, because of a number of reasons. This includes where properties are built or demolished and when existing properties are merged, split, extended or there is a change in use of a property.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 7 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its income will be from non-domestic rates from each local authority in 2010-11
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36257 on 7 October 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 7 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-35879 by John Swinney on 6 September 2010, how many businesses in each local authority area have had (a) a decrease and (b) no change in their business rate as a result of rates revaluation from 1 April 2010.
Answer
A full breakdown of bill changes following the 2010 revaluation by local authority area, including the number of ratepayers who saw their bills decrease and those whose bills did not change, is shown in the following table. The figures given are before the impact of reliefs or appeals, both of which will significantly increase the number of properties who will see their bills decrease.
| Local Authority | Ratepayers with Bill Decrease | Ratepayers with no Change to Bill | Ratepayers with Bill Increase - up to 12.5% | Ratepayers with Bill Increase - over 12.5% |
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % |
| Aberdeen City | 3,428 | 41.6 | 677 | 8.2 | 2,203 | 26.7 | 1,934 | 23.5 |
| Aberdeenshire | 2,224 | 20.6 | 2,920 | 27.1 | 1,789 | 16.6 | 3,848 | 35.7 |
| Angus | 2,009 | 41.9 | 1,063 | 22.2 | 1,034 | 21.6 | 691 | 14.4 |
| Argyll and Bute | 2,726 | 36.0 | 1,376 | 18.2 | 1,624 | 21.4 | 1,846 | 24.4 |
| Clackmannanshire | 751 | 48.8 | 204 | 13.3 | 264 | 17.2 | 319 | 20.7 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3,228 | 36.5 | 2,211 | 25.0 | 1,602 | 18.1 | 1,813 | 20.5 |
| Dundee City | 3,072 | 54.4 | 622 | 11.0 | 1,281 | 22.7 | 675 | 11.9 |
| East Ayrshire | 2,334 | 62.0 | 576 | 15.3 | 466 | 12.4 | 387 | 10.3 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1,450 | 64.5 | 186 | 8.3 | 357 | 15.9 | 256 | 11.4 |
| East Lothian | 961 | 29.7 | 592 | 18.3 | 781 | 24.2 | 899 | 27.8 |
| East Renfrewshire | 1,007 | 61.6 | 199 | 12.2 | 215 | 13.2 | 213 | 13.0 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 8,034 | 42.9 | 1,682 | 9.0 | 4,963 | 26.5 | 4,070 | 21.7 |
| Eilean Siar | 453 | 21.3 | 541 | 25.4 | 647 | 30.4 | 488 | 22.9 |
| Falkirk | 2,601 | 55.2 | 614 | 13.0 | 851 | 18.1 | 645 | 13.7 |
| Fife | 5,741 | 45.3 | 2,052 | 16.2 | 2,286 | 18.0 | 2,602 | 20.5 |
| Glasgow City | 12,168 | 49.0 | 2,526 | 10.2 | 5,580 | 22.5 | 4,570 | 18.4 |
| Highland | 4,762 | 28.7 | 2,986 | 18.0 | 4,048 | 24.4 | 4,819 | 29.0 |
| Inverclyde | 1,451 | 63.7 | 255 | 11.2 | 227 | 10.0 | 346 | 15.2 |
| Midlothian | 1,001 | 36.9 | 401 | 14.8 | 602 | 22.2 | 711 | 26.2 |
| Moray | 760 | 17.2 | 1,061 | 24.1 | 971 | 22.0 | 1,617 | 36.7 |
| North Ayrshire | 2,601 | 53.9 | 644 | 13.3 | 700 | 14.5 | 884 | 18.3 |
| North Lanarkshire | 5,590 | 62.4 | 948 | 10.6 | 1,172 | 13.1 | 1,249 | 13.9 |
| Orkney Islands | 275 | 14.0 | 446 | 22.7 | 434 | 22.1 | 812 | 41.3 |
| Perth and Kinross | 3,785 | 47.0 | 1,733 | 21.5 | 1,155 | 14.3 | 1,383 | 17.2 |
| Renfrewshire | 3,903 | 65.0 | 650 | 10.8 | 698 | 11.6 | 755 | 12.6 |
| Scottish Borders | 1,700 | 24.6 | 1,507 | 21.8 | 1,237 | 17.9 | 2,465 | 35.7 |
| Shetland Islands | 556 | 29.4 | 507 | 26.8 | 361 | 19.1 | 470 | 24.8 |
| South Ayrshire | 2,755 | 60.7 | 570 | 12.6 | 606 | 13.3 | 609 | 13.4 |
| South Lanarkshire | 5,570 | 59.6 | 1,053 | 11.3 | 1,317 | 14.1 | 1,412 | 15.1 |
| Stirling | 2,484 | 51.4 | 714 | 14.8 | 760 | 15.7 | 873 | 18.1 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 1,876 | 69.7 | 203 | 7.5 | 272 | 10.1 | 340 | 12.6 |
| West Lothian | 2,715 | 50.6 | 637 | 11.9 | 956 | 17.8 | 1,055 | 19.7 |
| Total | 93,971 | 44.2 | 32,356 | 15.2 | 41,459 | 19.5 | 45,056 | 21.2 |
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 7 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many businesses successfully appealed their business rate revaluation in each year since 2005-06.
Answer
Information on the number of successful appeals is not held centrally.
