§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of the per capita average incomes for each county in Scotland for 1966–67.
§ Mr. TaverneThe figures are as follows:
Scottish Counties Population Total Net Income Average £m. £ Aberdeen 318,982 112 351 Angus 278,596 102 366 Argyll 58,830 14 238 Ayr 347,826 103 296 Banff 44,927 13 286 Berwick 21,538 6 268 Bute 13,115 5 354 Caithness 28,257 14 495 Clackmannan 42,499 14 329 Dumfries 87,709 23 260 Dumbarton 211,524 55 262 East Lothian 53,481 10 193 Fife 320,531 79 246 Inverness 84,471 25 296 Kincardine 25,332 6 231 Kinross 6,306 2 310 Kirkcudbright 28,779 8 294 Lanark 1,577,352 637 405 Midlothian 588,875 274 465 Moray 51,137 15 294 Nairn 8,168 1 139 Orkney 18,102 3 181 Peebles 13,493 5 402 Perth 125,318 36 287 Renfrew 354,552 150 423 Ross and Cromarty 57,128 11 197 Roxburgh 42,633 17 399 Selkirk 20,348 11 525 Stirling 198,958 64 322 Sutherland 13,175 5 382 West Lothian 102,978 26 251 Wigtown 28,509 7 238 Zetland 17,371 3 199 Total Scotland 5,190,800 1,856 357 Notes on Table:
The figures of total net income have been derived from the results of the 1966–67 Incomes Survey, published in the 111th Report of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue [Cmnd. 3879]. They exclude the incomes of persons with less than £275 a year. Total income is computed as for income tax and excludes income which is exempt from tax (e.g. National Insurance sickness and unemployment benefit). The population figures relate to mid-1966.