§ Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each local authority in Scotland the amounts claimed by councillors in each of the last five years for (a) attendance allowance and loss of earnings, (b) travel allowance, (c) subsistence allowance and (d) special responsiblity payments.
§ Mr. AncramThis information is not collected centrally. Every local authority is, however, required to keep records of all payments made to each member and such records are open to inspection by any local government elector for the area of the local authority.
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1979–80 1980–81 Local authority Attendance allowance £ Travelling allowance £ Subsistance allowance £ Attendance allowance £ Travelling allowance £ Subsistence allowance £ Regional Councils Borders 24,678 23,665 1,108 25,166 24,596 1,515 Central 64,964 32,625 21,686 72,039 39,751 25,487 Dumfries and Galloway 18,057 21,347 1,818 18,578 24,315 1,861 Fife 70,505 44,679 13,440 74,191 50,092 15,051 Grampian 66,408 61,685 11,001 73,397 69,663 12,021 Highland 40,041 71,467 18,487 51,244 43,825 19,400 Lothian 121,932 34,985 18,715 134,490 35,504 24,379 Strathclyde 233,465 135,841 62,652 264,240 169,062 74,477 Tayside 62,198 42,069 7,143 67,649 49,784 9,030 TOTAL 702,248 468,363 156,050 780,994 506,592 183,221 Islands Councils Orkney 18,490 21,743 9,377 21,493 15,525 8,526 Shetland 31,069 22,755 6,913 23,790 46,274 8,042 Western Isles 25,178 13,875 18,638 26,272 26,786 20,595 TOTAL 74,737 58,373 34,928 71,555 88,585 37,163 District Councils Berwickshire 6,728 3,654 11 7,118 4,288 42 Ettrick and Lauderdale 5,530 1,564 189 6,475 1,975 412 Roxburgh 19,184 8,286 344 16,737 5,497 174 Tweeddale 7,336 2,408 3 8,887 2,786 43 Clackmannan 4,930 1,120 90 4,875 644 67 Falkirk 53,370 10,336 8,030 63,317 11,092 7,470 Stirling 27,744 8,950 1,972 34,228 9,359 3,312 Annandale and Eskdale 10,221 5,480 578 9,887 4,457 613 Nithsdale 10,281 4,719 202 11,752 23,283 130 Stewartry 5,850 4,118 585 5,979 4,621 623 Wigtown 4,922 3,621 624 5,435 3,398 711 Dunfermline 32,797 6,175 4,501 38,190 8,842 4,966 Kirkcaldy 48,163 12,483 6,959 43,547 11,814 8,513 North East Fife 18,071 8,296 1,252 20,709 8,566 1,748 Aberdeen City 50,570 5,154 3,840 57,229 13,651 6,563 Banff and Buchan 11,897 11,710 1,245 12,988 11,639 1,222 Gordon 6,552 5,777 750 7,066 7,369 627 Kincardine and Deeside 3,542 4,098 961 4,914 5,227 1,059 Moray 12,087 9,397 787 13,324 9,379 639 Badenoch and Strathspey 2,547 2,385 119 2,975 2,870 290 Caithness 3,122 3,725 680 3,172 4,044 532 Inverness 13,923 9,462 1,640 22,358 8,069 962 Lochaber 6,683 4,789 1,441 9,432 7,243 1,707 Nairn 2,821 899 820 4,236 936 474 Ross and Cromarty 12,175 16,582 5,397 13,087 8,589 4,050 Skye and Lochalsh 2,423 2,466 880 2,691 3,409 1,066 Sutherland 6,058 9,880 1,550 5,427 8,058 1,323 Edinburgh City 126,445 22,150 4,844 140,584 27,652 5,573 East Lothian 15,579 5,838 3,472 18,577 6,252 4,039 Midlothian 31,714 6,562 7,034 35,705 7,569 9,928 West Lothian 45,632 10,189 2,760 59,649 9,356 12,136 Argyll and Bute 17,095 31,502 12,643 20,385 36,251 17,227 Bearsden and Milngavie 8,772 1,034 11 11,193 1,711 8 Clydebank 15,948 2,120 426 20,803 2,754 150 Clydesdale 19,716 5,995 3,601 21,132 5,990 3,939 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 4,493 413 83 9,913 1,664 139 Cumnock and Doon Valley 22,450 10,398 6,242 24,048 7,852 6,160 Cunninghame 43,479 17,618 7,203 55,954 17,625 8,106 Dumbarton 16,160 3,501 736 21,648 4,865 1,742 1981 and financial loss allowance, as an optional alternative to attendance allowance, was not available to councilors in Scotland until 1 November 1982.
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1979–80 1980–81 Local authority Attendance allowance £ Travelling allowance £ Subsistance allowance £ Attendance allowance £ Travelling allowance £ Subsistence allowance £ East Kilbride 20,600 660 1,170 21,232 1,828 1,715 Eastwood 8,457 987 1,215 9,968 2,244 1,091 Glasgow City 163,745 23,497 35,288 194,071 28,465 36,469 Hamilton 33,385 4,891 2,749 38,285 6,178 3,750 Inverclyde 10,434 1,190 1,530 10,544 985 1,483 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 33,396 5,722 2,092 29,425 4,659 2,319 Kyle and Carrick 30,061 12,246 2,544 33,592 12,392 2,592 Monklands 39,006 2,940 1,097 49,229 4,445 972 Motherwell 42,9O1 7,178 4,356 52,994 8,326 5,530 Renfrew 58,943 10,382 4,047 79,402 10,278 3,574 Strathkelvin 18,042 2,961 1,026 17,475 3,300 913 Angus 11,656 7,086 487 13,649 7,592 596 Dundee City 55,437 11,363 1,514 77,937 12,327 2,634 Perth and Kinross 13,777 11,747 643 16,720 12,020 668 1,296,850 387,704 154,263 1,520,149 435,685 182,791