§ Mr. DAYasked the Secretary of State for Scotland the total expenditure, other than out of loans, of all local authorities for the years ended March, 1927, and March, 1928?
Mr. W. ADAMSONI regret that the information asked is not yet available.
— Land owned by Department of Agriculture for Scotland. Land owned by War Department. Land owned by Forestry Commission. Land owned by Crown in charge of Commissioners of Crown Lands. Total Acreage. Land held on Lease. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Aberdeen … 2,221 8 27,468 — 29,697 — Angus … 1,528 3,473 1,820 — 6,821 — Argyll … 47,191 29 92,084 — 139,304 — Ayr … 1,147 11 — — 1,158 — Banff … 3,158 12 554 — 3,724 2,230* Berwick … Bute … Caithness … 11,790 — — 22,260 34,050 — Clackmannan … Dumbarton … — 52 — — 52 — Dumfries … 5,656 33 3,769 — 9,458 — East Lothian … 2,296 7 — 2,303 — Fife … 2,121 118 6,800 — 9,039 — Inverness … 222,368 275 78,987 — 301,630 272* Kincardine … 1,558 — 3,951 — 5,509 — Kinross … — — 608 — 608 — Kirkcudbright … 2,386 — 2,915 — 5,301 — Lanark … 584 73 — — 657 — Midlothian … 742 1,448 — 12 2,202 — Moray … — — 11,746 — 11,746 — Nairn … Orkney … 1,030 11 — — 1,041 — Peebles … 908 — 1,000 — 1,908 — Perth … 1,149 54 6,510 1 7,714 — Renfrew … 232 48 — — 280 — Ross and Cromarty … 3,980 1 39,456 — 43,437 — Roxburgh … 507 3,619 3,547 — 7,673 — Selkirk … — 36 580 338 954 — Stirling … Sutherland … 86,523 — — — 86,523 9,400† Westlothian … 686 — — — 686 — Wigtown … 331 — — — 331 — Zetland … 4,543 3 — — 4,546 — Total … 404,635 9,311 281,795 22,611 718,352 11,902 * Held by Department of Agriculture for Scotland. † Lands held by Forestry Commission.