§ Mr. Bruceasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report for each district and islands council in Scotland in respect of the years 1984–85 and 1985–86 the estimated amounts to be 250W refunded to that authority by the Government in respect of expenditure on housing benefit (rent rebates) to tenants of local authority houses.
§ Mr. WhitneyOn the basis of interim subsidy claims from each of the district and island councils in Scotland, we estimate that the amount of housing benefit subsidy for rent rebates payable for 1984–85 will be as follows:
Authority Rent rebate subsidy £ million Aberdeen 5.4 Angus 3.0 Annandale 1.1 Argyll-Bute 2.6 Badenoch 0.2 Banff and Buchan 2.8 Bearsden 0.3 Berwickshire 0.6 Caithness 0.8 Clackmannan 2.1 Clydebank 2.2 Clydesdale 1.9 Cumbernauld 0.7 Cumnock 2.2 Cunninghame 5.2 Dumbarton 2.4 Dundee 8.4 Dunfermline 4.6 East Kilbride 0.3 Midlothian 2.2 Monklands 5.4 Moray 2.1 Motherwell 7.4 Nairn 0.2 Nithsdale 1.6 North East Fife 2.1 Orkney 0.2 Perth and Kinross 3.2 Renfrew 7.3 Ross and Cromarty 1.5 Roxburgh 1.7 Shetland 0.3 Skye and Loch 0.1 Stewartry 0.7 Stirling 2.3 Strathkelvin 1.7 East Lothian 3.1 Eastwood 0.3 Edinburgh 16.8 Ettrick and Lauder 1.0 Falkirk 6.2 Glasgow 40.6 Gordon 0.9 Hamilton 4.7 Inverclyde 3.8 Inverness 1.4 Kilmarnock 3.6 Kincardine 0.5 Kirkcaldy 6.2 Kyle and Carrick 4.4 Lochaber 0.8 Sutherland 0.4 Tweeddale 0.3 Western Isles 0.9 West Lothian 4.6 Wigtown 1.6 Comparable information for 1985–86 is not yet available.