Revenue Budget for Scottish Fire and Rescue Service: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for the revenue budget provided to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in each year since it formed in 2013? What was the revenue budget for each legacy fire service in Scotland before the formation of the single service? If this can't be provided for Fife and Dumfries and Galloway because of provision through local arrangements I completely understand.

Response

I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested.

Some of the information you requested is publicly available on the Scottish Government website and may be of use for viewing future budget information if you require. This can be found here: Scottish Budget - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

The figures you have requested are below (in millions):

	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23
Resource	277.230	287.541	259.221	259.221	259.221	264.40	269.90	276.00	284.707	294.207
Depreciation	22.016	22.625	24.679	24.679	24.679	24.679	24.80	24.80	26	26.0
Capital	15.3	22.3	25.3	10.8*	32.5	32.5	32.50	36.85	32.5	32.5
TOTAL	314.5	332.5	309.2	294.7	316.4	321.6	327.20	337.65	343.2	332.7

*Capital Receipts in 2016/17 brought capital expenditure up to £25.3m

With regards to the budgets for the legacy services, these were determined by each Local Government from the overall budget the Scottish Government provided to them, therefore we do not hold this information.

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