§ Mr. Russell Johnstonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report for each local housing authority in Scotland (a) the guidelines for rate fund contributions to housing revenue accounts for 1981–82 which he has issued and (b) the level of rate fund contributions to housing revenue accounts per house should such guidelines be implemented.
§ Mr. RifkindI have not given guidelines to local authorities for rate fund contributions for 1981–82. What I have done is intimate to each authority what is the maximum allowable figure for its rate fund contribution if a reduction in its capital allocation for that year is to be avoided. For the figures I refer the hon. Member to the second column in the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Renfrewshire, East (Mr. Stewart) on 29 January.—[Vol. 997, c.460-62.] Expressed as amounts per house the figures for each authority are as follows:
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Authority Maximum rate fund contribution per house 1981–82* (estimated outturn prices) £ Berwickshire 74.20 Ettrick and Lauderdale 79.95 Roxburgh 67.96 Tweeddale 102.03 Clackmannan 60.36 Falkirk 51.58 Stirling 73.01 Annandale and Eskdale 82.25 Nithsdale 76.51 Stewartry 103.46 Wigtown 74.11 Dunfermline 65.56 Kirkcaldy 68.25 North East Fife 96.02 Aberdeen 64.42 Banff and Buchan 75.36 Gordon 121.81 Kincardine and Deeside 134.30 Moray 90.40 Badenoch and Strathspey 104.59 Caithness 74.80 Inverness 94.22 Lochaber 69.89
Authority Maximum rate fund contribution per house 1981–82* (estimated outturn prices) Nairn 115.42 Ross and Cromarty 86.11 Skye and Lochalsh 166.89 Sutherland 90.70 East Lothian 57.94 Edinburgh 96.27 Midlothian 77.16 West Lothian 73.21 Argyll and Bute 91.34 Bearsden and Milngavie 257.53 Clydebank 52.67 Clydesdale 70.47 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 180.68 Cummock and Doon Valley 53.15 Cunninghame 71.84 Dumbarton 71.95 East Kilbride 615.38 Eastwood 311.66 Glasgow 53.44 Hamilton 56.20 Inverclyde 61.91 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 53.33 Kyle and Carrick 72.90 Monklands 45.74 Motherwell 44.85 Renfrew 65.94 Strathkelvin 94.71 Angus 76.27 Dundee 56.77 Perth and Kinross 87.52 Orkney 147.26 Shetland 223.64 Western Isles 144.82 SCOTLAND 69.66 * House numbers used are the Secretary of State's estimates of the numbers of houses to which the housing revenue accounts of the authorities as at 30 September 1980 relate.