§ Mr. George Robertsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will pub-
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1976–77 Rate rebates 1977–78 Rate rebates 1978–79 Rate rebates Regional/Islands council Number Total paid £000 Number Total paid £000 Number Total paid £000 Borders 6,642 273 7,321 339 6,990 304 Central 16,875 1,127 17,028 1,327 15,856 1,024 Dumfries and Galloway 8,043 336 8,501 398 8,398 382 Fife 25,436 978 26,090 1,175 26,404 1,118 Grampian 23,709 1,078 25,159 1,349 26,385 1,419 Highland 7,836 311 8,713 398 9,054 485 Lothian 62,658 4,055 64,490 4,578 60,327 4,487 Strathclyde 185,688 11,451 193,743 13,032 192,595 10,797 Tayside 27,327 1,329 30,452 1,558 25,542 1,349 Orkney 376 9 484 13 531 19 Shetland 305 7 410 9 498 17 Western Isles 2,328 20 761 23 1,068 27 TOTALS 367,223 20,974 383,152 24,199 373,648 21,428 No information available as yet for 1979–80. subject to revision in the current year in respect of final data on extraordinary expenses for earlier years.
lish the figures of the uptake of the following benefits (a) rent allowances, (b) rent rebates and (c) rate rebates for each of the last four years distinguished by local authority regions.
§ Mr. RifkindInformation relating to rent rebates and allowances is contained in "Rents of Public Authority Houses and Rent Rebates and Allowances" for 1976 and "Scottish Housing Statistics" Numbers 1 and 5 for 1977 and 1978, respectively. Information for 1979 will be published in a future edition of "Scottish Housing Statistics".
Information on rate rebates, which has been extracted from returns submitted to the Scottish Office by regional and islands councils, is as shown in the following table: