HC Deb 15 April 1991 vol 189 cc125-7W
Mr. McAllion

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the anticipated income for each local authority in Scotland for 1991–92 from(a) aggregate external finance and (b) community charges.

Mr. Allan Stewart

[holding answer 25 March 1991]: The figures are shown in the table.

Aggregate External Finance £000 Total CC Income £000
Borders 79,835 17,667
Central 182,112 54,602
Dumfries & Galloway 112,446 26,385
Fife 240,865 75,373
Grampian 346,160 83,647
Highland 184,082 36,917
Lothian 479,248 212,866
Strathclyde 1,693,546 434,203
Tayside 280,835 81,108
Berwickshire 1,484 555
Ettrick & Lauderdale 2,789 1,318
Roxburgh 3,121 1,311
Tweeddale 1,226 516
Clackmannan 5,122 3,758
Falkirk 13,365 4,988
Stirling 9,703 6,198
Annandale & Eskdale 2,530 1,919
Nithsdale 4,339 2,846
Stewartry 1,605 925
Wigtown 2,554 1,422
Dunfermline 11,592 6,915
Kirkcaldy 12,336 8,162
North East Fife 6,399 4,214
Aberdeen City 26,209 16,940
Banff & Buchan 7,183 4,045
Gordon 6,039 2,734
Kincardine & Deeside 3,766 1,184
Moray 7,159 2,669
Badenoch & Strathspey 938 368
Aggregate External Finance £000 Total CC Income £000
Caithness 2,338 659
Inverness 5,022 1,507
Lochaber 2,224 943
Nairn 796 279
Ross & Cromarty 5,761 2,148
Skye & Lochalsh 1,684 405
Sutherland 1,470 506
East Lothian 8,810 5,384
Edinburgh City 59,443 41,209
Midlothian 7,157 4,474
West Lothian 12,961 5,901
Argyll & Bute 10,224 4,831
Bearsden & Milngavie 3,497 2,366
Clydebank 6,891 3,993
Clydesdale 5,694 3,944
Cumbernauld & Kilsyth 5,204 2,795
Cumnock & Doon Valley 4,197 2,130
Cunninghame 14,601 10,456
Dumbarton 7,423 7,723
East Kilbride 5,637 6,735
Eastwood 4,272 2,070
Glasgow City 135,736 54,606
Hamilton 10,545 7,424
Inverclyde 10,830 5,585
Kilmarnock & Loudoun 7,232 4,458
Kyle & Carrick 10,697 9,700
Monklands 12,887 7,440
Motherwell 16,041 8,011
Renfrew 22,061 15,857
Strathkelvin 8,797 6,142
Angus 8,069 3,842
Dundee City 23,459 12,316
Perth & Kinross 11,913 5,725
Orkney 24,566 2,027
Shetland 54,719 2,399
Western Isles 53,017 3,624
Footnotes
1. The Community charge income figures shown are local authorities' own budgeted estimates for 1991–92 of community charge receipts from personal, collective and standard charges, inclusive of community charge benefits and receipts from the transitional relief and community charge reduction schemes. They accordingly reflect the position before the decision to increase the level of central government support for local authorities and to reduce all 1991–92 personal community charges by £140.
2. Aggregate External Finance includes revenue support grant, estimated non-domestic rate income and estimated specific grants for each authority. An additional £47.2 million of specific grant relating to the urban programme expenditure has not yet been allocated to individual authorities.

Mr. McAllion

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were(a) gross local authority revenue expenditure, (b) net local authority revenue expenditure, (c) rate support grant/revenue support grant, (d) local authority income from non-domestic rates and (e) local authority income from domestic rates/community charges at constant prices for each year from 1978–79 to 1991–92.

Mr. Allan Stewart

[holding answer 25 March 1991]: The information is set out in the table:

(1) Gross revenue expenditure £million (2) Net revenue expenditure £ million (3) RSG £ million (4) Non-domestic rate income (5) Domestic rates/ Community charge income £ million
1978–79 4,692.9 4,309.5 2,625.4 974.0 520.7
1979–80 4,921.4 4,532.9 2,583.3 989.6 523.5
1980.81 5,111.5 4,771.9 2,651.2 1,134.8 607.5
1981–82 5,218.3 4,835.1 2,519.9 1,391.2 768.0
1982–83 5,273.8 4,875.9 2,540.7 1,445.9 816.1
1983.84 5,323.8 4,908.1 2,555.0 1,3874.1 772.2
1984–85 5,299.6 4,869.5 2,364.7 1,373.2 784.4
1985–86 5,184.7 4,756.9 2,278.7 1,372.5 853.5
1986–87 53,16.0 4,881.5 2,148.5 1,437.5 911.2
1987–88 5,394.8 4,943.2 2,212.3 1,524.5 991.3
1988–89 5,469.5 4,961.3 2,289.7 1,510.5 994.6
1989–90 n/a 5,021.4 2,414.7 1,313.5 1,059.2
1990–91 n/a 5,131.9 2,495.3 1,189.0 1,062.1
1991–92 n/a 5,243.6 2,615.5 12,98.1 1,266.8

Notes:

1. Gross revenue expenditure figures are only obtained from local authorities in Local Financial Returns (LFRS). The LFR is for 1988–89

2. The figures in column 2 are taken from LFRS to 1988–89, Final Outturn returns for 1989–90, Provisional Outturn returns for 1990–91 and Budget Estimate returns for 1991–92.

3. In column 3 the figures represent the redetermined amounts of rate and revenue support grant where appropriate.

4. The figures in column 4 are Final Outturn to 1988–89. For 1989–90 to 1991–92 the figures represent the Non-Domestic Rate Income estimated by the Department as part of AEF.

5. In column 5 the figures are Final Outturn to 1988–89 and Provisional Outturn for 1990–91. The 1991–92 figure shown is the total of loca authorities' own budgeted estimates. It reflects the position before the decision to increase the level of central government support for loca: authorities and to reduce all 1991–92 personal community charges by £140.

6. All figures have been converted to real terms by means of the Treasury GDP deflator (March 1991). All years are at 1990–91.

Mr. McAnion

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the anticipated net local authority revenue expenditure and gross local authority revenue expenditure for 1991–92 for(a) all regional council services, (b) education, (c) police and fire services, (d) social work, (e) roads and transport, (f) loan charges attributable to regional services, (g) all district council services, (h) leisure and recreation services, (i) loan

Column 1 Revenue expenditure £ million Column 2 Loan and leasing charges £ million Total columns 1 and 2 £ million
(a) All regional services 4,117.7 474.7 4,592.4
(b) Education1 2,278.8 167.5 2,446.4
(c) Police and Fire services1 598.4 30.2 628.6
(d) Social Work1 631.2 39.9 671.1
(e) Roads and Transport1 393.0 193.6 586.5
(f) Loan Charges (Regions) 474.7
(g) All district services 691.4 188.1 879.5
(h) Leisure and Recreation2 254.4 55.2 309.6
(i) Non-housing district loan charges 188.1
(j) Cleansing services3 164.8 16.4 181.2
(k) Libraries and Museums and Art Galleries 2 4 93.8 13.0 106.8
(l) Environmental Health services2 50.5 3.2 53.8
1 Figures include Regional and Island authority expenditure.
2 Figures include Regional, Island and District authority expenditure.
3 Figures include Island and District authority expenditure.
4 Figures include expenditure on Art Galleries as well as Museums as separate figures for these two services.