It is then the responsibility of individual local authorities to manage their own budgets and to allocate the total financial resources available to them, including on flooding protection, on the basis of local needs and priorities, having first fulfilled their statutory obligations and the jointly agreed set of national and local priorities.Financial YearFunding Amount (M)2007-08422008-09422009-10422010-11422011-12422012-13422013-14422014-15422015-16422016-17362017-18472018-19422019-20422020-21422021-22522022-23632023-24612024-2588*2025-26121**In 2024-25 and 2025-26 Scottish Government worked with COSLA to reprioritise some existing spend and emerging underspends, to allow that funding to be used to improve the pay offer for local government in 2024-25 and 2025-26.