GLASGOW city council could be facing a shortfall of up to £75m following the Scottish budget it is feared.

Council officials are still poring over the details and what it means for the city but despite the Finance Secretary, Derek Mackay, stating that council have been given more funding, Glasgow is staring at a gap of tens of millions of pounds.

Council leader, Frank McAveety, warned of a gap of £60m but officials now fear it could be even higher.

The council believes that once cash that is ring fenced for specific purposed like the attainment fund for schools and other priorities that are set by the government, the cash available to the council is far lower than the amount the government says it has to spend.

Mr McAveety said: “The truth of the matter is that local government services will have less money this year again and that’s an ongoing thing for Glasgow and the minister should be ashamed of himself.”

Mr Mackay said the overall funding for councils has increased. He said the cash available to the city was a “fair settlement of £1.3bn to deliver for the people of Glasgow.”

The cash available also includes money raised from changes to the council tax where people in higher bands will pay more.

However the council says that is money raised by the council and not provided by the Government grant.

Similarly the ability to increase council tax by up to 3% is not regarded as government money to the council.

On both measures the cash raised by Glasgow is nowhere near enough to offset recent budget cuts.

For the last two years the council had to find £130m worth of cuts to balance its budget.

A 3% council tax rise is estimated to raise just £5m, if councillors decide to increase it for the first time in more than a decade ion Glasgow, and the city gets far less per head than some other councils form the band changes.

Because Glasgow has a much higher proportion of lower band properties, in the A to D range the extra raised form the change will be just £7m.

Edinburgh will raise an extra £16m.

Even Aberdeenshire, a more affluent area with a far smaller population, will raise more than Glasgow with another £8m coming into the rural council in the north east.

Per head of population Glasgow will get £12 per head while Aberdeenshire will receive £36 per head.