HC Deb 28 January 1981 vol 997 cc452-4W
Mr. Allan Stewart

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each housing authority in Scotland (a) the rate fund contributions to its housing revenue accounts that estimate its will be required in the current financial year when drawing up its budget, (b) the maximum rate fund contribution to its housing revenue account for 1981–82 that the Government have notified it that it may budget for without any reduction in its block A capital spending and (c) its estimated income in the current year from the rates paid by domestic ratepayers occupying local authority housing.

Authority Budgeted rate fund contribution 1980–81* £ million (outturn prices) Maximum rate fund contribution 1981–82£ million (outturn prices) Estimated rate income from Domestic ratepayers occupying local authority housing 1980–81£ million (outturn prices)
Berwickshire 0.050 0.212 0.394
Ettrick and Launderdale 0.398 0.612
Roxburgh 0.214 0.426 0.815
Tweeddale 0.144 0.166 0.214
Clackmannan 0.825 0.578 1.323
Falkirk 3.130 1.731 5.043
Stirling 1.884 0.957 1.845
Annandale and Eskdale 0.638 0.422 0.645
Nithsdale 0.391 0.666 1.020
Stewartry 0.120 0.269 0.300
Wigtown 0.099 0.354 0.559
Dunfermline 1.591 1.528 3.234
Kirkcaldy 0.253 1.795 3.626
North East Fife 0.327 0.775 1.157
Aberdeen 5.856 2.514 5.894
Banff and Buchan 0.066 0.964 1.485
Gordon 0.584 0.744 0.806
Kincardine and Deeside 0.187 0.491 0.418
Moray 0.891 0.992 1.374
Badenoch and Strathspey 0.122 0.114 0.146
Caithness 0.709 0.323 0.484
Inverness 0.405 0.673 1.083
Lochaber 0.589 0.244 0.524
Nairn 0.137 0.128 0.165
Ross and Cromarty 0.644 0.545 0.933
Skye and Lochalsh 0.200 0.122 0.091
Sutherland 0.216 0.157 0.212
East Lothian 0.400 0.944 3.575
Edinburgh 2.076 5.427 11.100
Midlothian 0.687 1.019 2.810
West Lothian 3.007 1.622 4.117
Argyll and Bute 0.620 0.768 1.290
Bearsden and Milngavie 0.481 0.470 0.386
Clydebank 0.672 0.623 2.011
Clydesdale 0.266 0.685 1.507
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 0.407 0.794 0.656
Cumnock and Doon Valley 1.024 0.551 1.470
Cunninghame 1.902 1.642 4.115
Dumbarton 2.087 0.947 2.404
East Kilbride 0.256 1.000 0.289
Eastwood 0.382 0.623 0.342
Glasgow 30.018 9.307 29.983
Hamilton 4.083 1.294 4.023
Inverelyde 1.073 1.228 3.299
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 0.859 0.976 3.017
Kyle and Carrick 0.019 1.335 2.837
Monklands 4.458 1.309 5.301
Motherwell 4.756 1.792 7.277
Renfrew 3.891 2.607 6.110
Strathkelvin 1.382 1.047 1.855
Angus —1.113 1.661
Dundee 0.754 2.280 5.349
Perth and Kinross 1.436 1.846
Orkney 0.237 0220 0.129
Shetland 1.439 0.560 0.312
Western Isles 0.767 0.358 0.306
Totals 88.275 62.281 143.779
* Source: Rating Review, June 1980, The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.
† As notified to local authorities in Scottish Development Department letter of 22 December 1980. (Figures do not total precisely due to roundings.)
‡ Figures do not take account of rate rebates paid to local authority tenants in 1980–81 as this information is not yet available.

Mr. Rifkind

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