§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing levels of rent arrears for public sector housing in Scotland and in each district and islands area, for each month since 1 April 1987.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonInformation on local authority, new town and SSHA rents and rent arrears is collected centrally from authorites on an annual basis at 30 September each year. Figures for 1987 are set out in the table.
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Rent arrears for Scottish public sector housing as at 30 September 1987 £ Scotland 26,658,649 Local Authority 24,441,926 Berwickshire 40,908 Ettrick and Lauderdale 29,501 Roxburgh 158,920 Tweeddale 9,950 Clackmannan 501,064 Falkirk 477,299 Stirling 466,600 Annandale and Eskdale 99,888 Nithsdale 126,891 Stewartry 27,523 Wigtown 99,446 Dunfermline 460,340 Kirkcaldy 462,442 North East Fife 67,633 Aberdeen 802,565 Banff and Buchan 253,788 Gordon 64,638 Kincardine & Deeside 39,669 Moray 48,770 Badenoch and Strathspey 12,838
£ Caithness 37,837 Inverness 143,103 Lochaber 43,327 Nairn 7,385 Ross and Cromarty 170,923 Skye and Lochalsh 38,418 Sutherland 17,429 East Lothian 231,065 Edinburgh 1,147,598 Midlothian 247,049 West Lothian 163,544 Argyll and Bute 73,676 Bearsden and Milngavie 42,126 Clydebank 455,683 Clydesdale 117,243 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 537,420 Cumnock and Doon Valley 311,903 Cunninghame 256,818 Dumbarton 421,723 East Kilbride 32,312 Eastwood 35,173 Glasgow 9,550,000 Hamilton 428,508 Inverclyde 264,764 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 190,345 Kyle and Carrick 220,143 Monklands 671,501 Motherwell 935,361 Renfrew 766,543 Strathkelvin 723,992 Angus 99,175 Dundee 1,113,017 Perth and Kinross 111,454 Orkney Islands 50,878 Shetland Islands 92,685 Western Isles 441,133 New Towns 922,372 Cumbernauld 143,184 East Kilbride 167,179 Glenrothes 313,304 Irvine 101,116 Livingston 197,589 SSHA 1,294,351