§ Mr. G. M. Thomsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland the gross amount of the Exchequer Equalisation Grant received by Scotland in each year since its inception.
§ Mr. MaclayThe amounts for each year are as follows (the figures for 1957–58 are those for the first provisional payment):
Year Exchequer equalisation grant Exchequer transitional grant Total of exchequer equalisation and transitional grant £ £ £ 1948–49 6,282,465 409,590 6,692,055 1949–50 5,102,063 327,672 5,429,735 1950–51 5,328,098 245,754 5,573,852 1951–52 5,734,232 163,836 5,898,068 1952–53 6,028,489 81,918 6,110,407 1953–54 8,300,728 114,509 8,415,237 1954–55 8,761,737 281,106 9,042,843 1955–56 9,578,563 281,106 9,859,669 1956–57 14,374,182 281,106 14,655,288 1957–58 13,715,071 281,106 13,996,177
§ Mr. G. M. Thomsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state, for each county council, and county of city, the percentage of their total expenditure that was borne by Government grant during the last financial year.
§ Mr. MaclayThe percentage of total expenditure on revenue account, including housing but excluding other revenue producing undertakings, borne by Government grants for each county (including burghs except counties of cities) and for each county of city in 1954–55—the latest year for which 93W information is available—was as follows (the figures are based on details extracted from the local authority Abstracts of Accounts):
Counties Percentage met by Government grants Aberdeen 60 Angus 50 Argyll 61 Ayr 43 Banff 67 Berwick 62 Bute 35 Caithness 69 Clackmannan 43 Dumfries 53 Dunbarton 39 East Lothian 42 Fife 44 Inverness 61 Kincardine 60 Kirkcudbright 63 Lanark 44 Midlothian 44 Moray & Nairn 54 Orkney 67 Peebles 39 Perth & Kinross 56 Renfrew 38 Ross & Cromarty 76 Roxburgh 46 Selkirk 42 Stirling 40 Sutherland 79 West Lothian 50 Wigtown 60 Zetland 75 Counties of Cities Aberdeen 37 Dundee 33 Edinburgh 33 Glasgow 34