§ 2. Lieut.-Colonel Elliotasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will make available to Parliament information in the form of Table II of the White Papers, Cmd. 7253 and 7256, showing the effect of the proposed Exchequer equalisation grant and Exchequer transitional grant under the Local Government Bill now before Parliament on the rates levied by each small burgh in Scotland.
§ Mr. WoodburnThe preparation of a return showing the effect on the rates of each of the 172 small burghs in Scotland would be a very big task and would not, I think, justify the labour involved. The particulars already published for each county give a fair indication, so far as it
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Authority. Under Local Government Bill Estimated Weighting for Under existing Acts[...] Weighting for (a) Sparsity. (b) Children under 15. (a) Sparsity. (b) Children under 5. LARGE BURGHS Aberdeen … — 42,002 — 107,023 Airdrie … — 8,322 — 26,475 Arbroath … — 4,246 — 6,148 Ayr … — 10,182 — 22,693 Clydebank … — 8,222 — 34,433 Coatbridge … — 13,399 — 44,973 Dumbarton … — 6,008 — 14,483 Dumfries … — 6,293 — 12,234 Dundee … — 41,438 — 116,187 Dunfermline … — 9,910 — 17,255 Edinburgh … — 100,776 — 189,341 Falkirk … — 8,818 — 23,928 Glasgow … — 269,008 — 838,649 Greenock … — 20,812 — 67,284 Hamilton … — 11,656 — 40,350 Inverness … — 5,880 — 12,482 Kilmarnock … — 10,109 — 29,389 Kirkcaldy … — 10,700 — 22,514. Motherwell and Wishaw … — 17,977 — 55,239 Paisley … — 22,790 — 55,795 Perth … — 8,204 — 13,883 Port Glasgow … — 6,317 — 22,518 Rutherglen … — 5,621 — 9,118 Stirling … — 6,980 — 18,211 TOTAL … — 655,670 — 1,800,605 is possible to estimate from the 1946–47 figures, of the probable degree of relief over the whole area, including the small burghs.