# The Budget (Scotland) Act 2007 Amendment Order 2007, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Budget (Scotland) Act 2007 (“the 2007 Act”), which makes provision, for the financial year 2007/08, for the use of resources by the Scottish Administration and certain bodies whose expenditure is payable out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund, for authorising the use of resources, and for limits on the capital expenditure and borrowing of local authorities and certain other public bodies.
It aligns the Scottish Government’s management systems and structures more closely with the new administration’s objectives. The Order reflects the reallocation of resources from the former Scottish Executive Departments to the new Scottish Government portfolios.
In particular, this Order amends the 2007 Act so as to–
(a) alter the overall cash authorisations in respect of three of the five bodies referred to in section 3 (article 2);
(b) restate the purposes for which resources may be used in accordance with section 1 and schedule 1 (article 3(2));
(c) restate the amount of resources other than accruing resources that may be used for the purposes set out in schedule 1 (article 3(3));
(d) restate the type of accruing resources which may be used in accordance with section 1 and schedule 1 (article 3(4));
(e) restate the amounts of accruing resources in schedule 1 (article 3(5)).
(f) remove types of accruing resources, and their corresponding purposes, which may be used without individual limit respectively in relation to the Rural Affairs and the Environment portfolio (article 4(2)(b)), the Health and Wellbeing portfolio (article 4(3)(c) and (d)), the Education and Lifelong Learning portfolio (article 4(4)(b)) and the Finance and Sustainable Growth portfolio (article 4(11)(1));
(g) add types of accruing resources, and their corresponding purposes, which may be used without individual limit respectively in relation to the Health and Wellbeing portfolio (article 4(3)(e)), the Education and Lifelong Learning portfolio (article 4(4)(b)) and the Finance and Sustainable Growth portfolio (article 4(11)(c));
(h) remove Part 4 (Scottish Executive Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department) and Part 5 (Scottish Executive Health Department) and add a new Part 13 (Office of the First Minister) to schedule 2 (accruing resources of the Scottish Administration which may be used without individual limit) (article 4(5), (6) and (12)); and
(i) alter the overall amounts of accruing resources that may be used without individual limit respectively in relation to the Health and Wellbeing portfolio (article 4(3)(f)), the Education and Lifelong Learning portfolio (article 4(4)(c)), the Justice portfolio (article 4(7)(b)), the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages (article 4(9)) and the Finance and Sustainable Growth portfolio (article 4(11)(c)).
The attached table provides reconciliation between the budgets for the former Scottish Executive Departments and the new Scottish government portfolios.
2007–08 BUDGET ACT
Total
First Minister
Finance and Sustainable Growth
Health & Wellbeing
Education and Lifelong Learning
Rural Affairs and the Environment
Justice
Administration
Total
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
1. These figures include the non cash elements of the budgets which are excluded from the figures shown in Section 3 of the Budget (Scotland) Act 2007 (Table 1.5 of the Supporting document refers).
Environment and Rural Affairs
938,076,000
320,700,000
617,376,000
938,076,000
Development
1,323,561,000
18,685,000
1,302,027,000
2,849,000
1,323,561,000
Education
1,094,349,000
219,571,000
43,350,000
32,532,000
798,896,000
1,094,349,000
Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning
5,253,742,000
2,955,260,000
2,298,482,000
5,253,742,000
Finance and Public Service Reform
8,060,906,000
23,792,000
8,032,776,000
4,338,000
8,060,906,000
Health
8,848,314,000
8,848,314,000
8,848,314,000
Justice
1,671,921,000
1,671,921,000
1,671,921,000
Total Programme
27,190,869,000
243,363,000
11,370,771,000
10,182,873,000
3,104,565,000
617,376,000
1,671,921,000
0
27,190,869,000
Administration
251,565,000
251,565,000
251,565,000
Total Scottish Executive Core
27,442,434,000
243,363,000
11,370,771,000
10,182,873,000
3,104,565,000
617,376,000
1,671,921,000
251,565,000
27,442,434,000
GROS
10,324,000
NAS
10,068,000
Pensions
2,006,670,000
Main Transfers
Office of the Charity Regulator
3,600,000
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
100,579,000
The First Minister
Total Scottish Administration
29,573,675,000
Culture from Education
219,571,000
International Relations, Statistics and Advertising from Finance and Public Service Reform
23,792,000
Forestry Commission
84,402,000
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth
Food Standards Agency
10,771,000
Tourism from Education
43,350,000
Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body
98,234,000
Transport from Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning
2,343,000,000
Audit Scotland
7,108,000
Enterprise from Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning
612,260,000
Scottish Water from Environment and Rural Affairs
320,700,000
…
Total Scottish Executive
29,774,190,000
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing
Communities from Development
1,302,027,000
Sport from Education
32,532,000

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2007/9780110784823/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-budget-scotland-act-2007-amendment-order-2007/note
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