Housing Support Grant

HC Deb 01 November 1990 vol 178 cc717-8W

Mr. Dewar

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of local authority revenue budget has been made up of housing support grant in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

Mr. Rifkind

The table expresses housing support grant as a percentage of total housing revenue account income for the years requested.

	Housing revenue account (HRA) income	Housing support grant	Housing support grant as a percentage of HRA income
	£ million	£ million	Per cent.
1981–82	651.0	161.0	24.9
1982–83	675.4	104.6	15.5
1983–84	667.5	72.1	10.8
1984–85	698.8	67.2	9.6
1985–86	700.2	64.2	9.2
1986–87	724.6	44.5	6.1
1987–88	747.9	41.9	5.6
1988–89	1806.9	54.6	6.8
1989–90	1885.4	65.3	7.4
1990–91	2916.6	259.6	6.5

¹Provisional.

²Estimated.