§ Mr. Craigenasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report the amount of rating expediture in each of the district and islands authorities in Scotland on housing benefit and give the percentage of expenditure which this represents.
§ Mr. AncramThe information is as follows:
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Authority Housing Benefit Expenditure* Col. (1) As percentage of total expenditure† District Councils £000 Per cent. Borders Berwickshire 63 4.5 Ettrick and Lauderdale 113 4.5 Roxburgh 145 4.6 Tweeddale 43 4.5 Central Clackmannan 132 3.0 Falkirk 726 4.2 Stirling 222 2.1 375W
Authority Housing Benefit Expenditure* Col. (1) As percentage of total expenditure† District Councils £000 Per cent. Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale 90 3.4 Nithsdale 132 3.5 Stewartry 57 3.6 Wigtown 86 4.4 Fife Dunfermline 507 4.4 Kirkcaldy 490 3.1 North East Fife 109 1.9 Grampian Aberdeen 533 1.6 Banff and Buchan 188 2.9 Gordon 134 2.8 Kincardine and Deeside 60 1.9 Moray 157 2.6 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey 38 5.2 Caithness 60 2.1 Inverness 146 2.5 Lochaber 54 2.6 Nairn 20 2.3 Ross and Cromarty 107 2.4 Skye and Lochalsh 22 2.1 Sutherland 36 2.4 Lothian East Lothian 325 3.6 Edinburgh 2,191 3.9 Midlothian 289 3.5 West Lothian 455 3.7 Strathclyde Argyll and Bute 296 2.9 Bearsden and Milngavie 45 1.2 Clydebank 147 1.5 Clydesdale 136 2.4 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 80 1.3 Cumnock and Doon Valley 209 3.9 Cunninghame 311 1.9 Dumbarton 98 0.9 East Kilbride 48 0.6 Eastwood 52 1.2 Glasgow 4,540 2.8 Hamilton 556 4.0 Inverclyde 299 1.9 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 114 1.1 Kyle and Carrick 346 2.4 Monklands 420 2.6 Motherwell 590 2.9 Renfrew 781 2.6 Strathkelvin 160 1.5 Tayside Angus 277 3.6 Dundee 558 1.9 Perth and Kinross 280 2.9 Islands Orkney 32 0.2 Shetland 57 0.1 Western Isles 125 0.4 Notes: * The information is based on authorities' budget estimates for 1984–85. † For both islands and district authorities housing benefit expenditure shown in column (1) is housing benefit administration costs on rent rebates and rent allowances (including any central administration costs allocated to this expenditure item) and rate fund contributions towards the payment of rent rebates and allowances. The figures for islands authorities also include administration costs (including central administration) on rate rebates. ‡ Total expenditure against which housing benefit expenditure has been measured in percentage terms in column 2 is total expenditure relevant for rate support grant purposes, including loan charges, total rate fund contributions to the housing revenue account and total rate fund contributions to other non-relevant services (including rent rebates and allowances).