HC Deb 26 November 1962 vol 668 cc14-5W
Mr. Hendry

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the amount in the latest convenient year of the expenditure of each county council in Scotland for the landward area of the county ranking for Exchequer Equalisation Grant; the estimated amount of such grant, and the proportion of such expenditure relating to special district services.

Counties (landward areas) 1959–60
Column (1) Column (2) Column (3) Proportion column (3) bears to column (1)
Relevant local expenditure* Exchequer Equalisation Grant Expenditure on special district services
£ £ £ Per cent.
Aberdeen … 1,348,870 698,292 80,545 6.0
Angus … 492,970 226,314 14,490 2.9
Argyll … 525,007 260,934 21,802 4.2
Ayr … 1,831,060 440,400 154,952 8.5
Banff … 299,384 198,913 2,557 0.9
Berwick … 263,524 147,224 13,540 5.1
Bute … 67,045 8,960 4,299 6.4
Caithness … 195,200 106,298 877 0.4
Clackmannan … 274,382 68,837 18,872 6.9
Dumfries … 708,417 255,552 61,896 8.7
Dunbarton … 997,542 188,377 109,401 11.0
East Lothian … 331,487 83,930 25,639 7.7
Fife … 1,922,758 636,707 252,950 13.2
Inverness … 898,857 505,090 28,102 3.1
Kincardine … 217,520 124,733 6,767 3.1
Kirkcudbright … 270,536 148,094 6,512 2.4
Lanark … 5,369,492 1,177,745 767,559 14.3
Midlothian … 936,843 232,480 79,548 8.5
Moray … 214,193 98,979 9,072 4.2
Nairn … 41,534 21,010 2,331 5.6
Orkney … 173,008 147,536 219 0.1
Peebles … 100,820 — 7,466 7.4
Perth … 732,326 254,576 34,725 4.7
Kinross … 59,709 23,030 3,519 5.9
Renfrew … 1,058,601 5,119 219,739 20.8
Ross and Cromarty … 687,931 519,084 14,961 2.2
Roxburgh … 213,099 103,589 11,101 5.2
Selkirk … 43,236 18.675 736 1.7
Stirling … 1,682,014 487,525 123,775 7.4
Sutherland … 345,230 260,295 6,900 2.0
West Lothian … 834,795 304,213 87,173 10.4
Wigtown … 253,278 147,038 8,736 3.4
Zetland … 280,697 245,284 523 0.2
TOTAL … 23,671,365 8,144,833 2,181,284 9.2
*The figures in column (1) cover county council expenditure in the landward area together with the proportion of county council expenditure on general services (Education, Health etc.) related to the landward area.

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