FOI/202600514819 · FOI · released
Resource Planning Assumptions and funding for Affordable Housing Supply Programme: FOI release
Information requested
To ask the Scottish Government for the Resource Planning Assumption for each local authority in relation to the Affordable Housing Supply Programme for the years 2025/26 and 2026/27.
To ask for the details of the formula used to allocate affordable housing supply programme funding to each local authority area; how the Strategic Housing Investment Framework indicators are used and the weightings given to each indicator.
Response
I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested.
1. To ask the Scottish Government for the Resource Planning Assumption for each local authority in relation to the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) for the years 2025/26 and 2026/27.
Some of the information you have requested is available from Affordable Housing Supply Programme: resource planning assumptions - gov.scot. Here you will find details of the Resource Planning Assumption (RPA) for each local authority in relation to the Affordable Housing Supply Programme for the years 2025-26. Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.
The Resource Planning Assumptions for each local authority in 2026-27 are in the table attached, and will be published on the Scottish Government website in due course.
2. To ask for the details of the formula used to allocate affordable housing supply programme funding to each local authority area; how the Strategic Housing Investment Framework indicators are used and the weightings given to each indicator.
The formula used to determine the share of the Affordable Housing Supply Programme funding that 30 local authority areas receive through the Strategic Housing Investment Framework was agreed with COSLA in 2012, and supports the delivery of local authority strategic affordable housing priorities. Glasgow and Edinburgh sit outwith this arrangement.
The Strategic Housing Investment Framework has five main categories – an initial equal share and then various indicators under the categories of market pressure (relating to affordability), deprivation (relating to the need for regeneration), population dispersion (relating to additional costs due to rurality) and homelessness. The current weightings applied to each category are set out below.
Weight Category Details 5% Initial amount First 5% is shared equally between 30 local authorities 25% Market Pressure An equal weighting of: Lower quartile house price to lower quartile income ratio, scaled by households in local authority 30th percentile 2-bed rent in relevant Broad Rental Market Area to lower quartile income ratio, scaled by households in local authority 30% Regeneration An equal weighting of: Local authority share of households classified as income deprived by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020 Local authority share of households who live in the 15% most deprived SIMD (2020) data zones 25% Population Dispersion Population dispersion index, weighted by number of households in local authority 15% Homelessness An equal weighting of: 3-year average of homeless households in temporary accommodation as a share of social lets, scaled by households in local authority 3-year average of social lets to homeless as a share of all non-transfer social lets, scaled by households in local authority
The AHSP budget for 2025-26 was £808 million, and included £80 million towards acquisitions. The allocation of acquisition funding across 32 local authorities was targeted using a different methodology – 80% of the funding was allocated to the five local authority areas with the highest sustained pressures on temporary accommodation and the remaining 20% allocated on the same allocation basis, but across the remaining 27 local authorities.
Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) funding for Glasgow and Edinburgh, the two Transfer of Management of Development Funding (TMDF authorities), currently sits outwith the Strategic Housing Investment Framework agreed with COSLA in 2012. The shares for Glasgow and Edinburgh are based on their historic share of the programme and are usually 23.98% of the capital available for RPAs with Glasgow allocated 69.7% and Edinburgh 30.3%.
The AHSP budget for 2026-27 is £926 million. Recognising the impact of targeted acquisition funding on programme levels across the country and the significant share that went to Glasgow and Edinburgh, on 25 March 2026 the Scottish Government confirmed TMDF authorities would receive 27% in 2026-27 with the split therein being 65% for Glasgow and 35% for Edinburgh.
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Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you.