IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/pubmmg/v22y2002i2p37-46.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Theme: Local Government: The New Politics of Local Spending: Central--Local Financial Relations under Scottish Devolution

Author

Listed:
  • Arthur Midwinter

Abstract

This article focuses on the Scottish Executive’s strategy and practice over local authority current expenditure since devolution. Since the introduction of the community charge in 1989, central government has provided more than 80% of local authority public expenditure in Scotland. The Scottish Executive has been able to control spending through its grant mechanisms, while still permitting local diversity. Scottish councils have delivered reasonable increases in council tax levels since devolution. This approach is consistent with the statutory basis of local government—much of which is permissive and facilitates local discretion.

Suggested Citation

  • Arthur Midwinter, 2002. "Theme: Local Government: The New Politics of Local Spending: Central--Local Financial Relations under Scottish Devolution," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 37-46, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:22:y:2002:i:2:p:37-46
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9302.00306
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1111/1467-9302.00306
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/1467-9302.00306?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Martin Laffin, 2004. "Is Regional Centralism Inevitable? The Case of the Welsh Assembly," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(2), pages 213-223.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:22:y:2002:i:2:p:37-46. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RPMM20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.