§ Mr. Millanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate, for each local authority in Scotland for the year 1985–86, the needs grant per adult and the safety net per adult that would apply under the proposals in "Paying for Local Government", Cmnd. 9714, stating the assumption as to the amount of standard grant per adult and the estimate as to the supplement to standard grant per adult from non-domestic rates used in the calculations.
§ Mr. Rifkind[pursuant to his reply, 23 April 1986, c.173–74]: The information requested is set out in the table. As requested, the calculations relate to 1985–86 and use the grant distribution and assessments of need relevant to that year. There have been changes in grant distribution and assessments since then and there will be further changes before the date proposed for the introduction of the proposed new arrangements for financing local government. To that extent the figures can hardly be regarded as a reliable guide to the impact that the Green Paper proposals will eventually have.
For each authority the grant payable per head is shown. The grant consists of a needs grant and a standard grant, the latter supplemented by the proceeds of non-domestic rates. The standard grant assumption is £323.66 per adult for regions and £4.30 per adult for districts. The addition for non-domestic rates would be £190.15 per adult for regions, £71.53 for districts.
As stated in the Green Paper, special consideration will have to be given to the island authorities, and figures for them are not included in the table.
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Local authority area Needs and standard grant with non-domestic rate supplement per adult £ Safety net per adult £ Borders 603 -59 Central 556 -10 Dumfries and Galloway 580 -52
Local authority area Needs and standard grant with non-domestic rate supplement per adult £ Safety net per adult £ Fife 550 27 Grampian 564 -22 Highland 747 -17 Lothian 514 6 Strathclyde 615 9 Tayside 554 -13 Regional Total 586 0 Berwickshire 102 -45 Ettrick and Lauderdale 104 -41 Roxburgh 132 -42 Tweeddale 101 -46 Clackmannan 95 -1 Falkirk 113 -3 Stirling 110 3 Annandale and Eskdale 89 -32 Nithsdale 95 -30 Stewartry 94 -43 Wigtown 99 -46 Dunfermline 106 -35 Kirkcaldy 113 -16 North East Fife 96 -30 Aberdeen City 115 25 Banff and Buchan 99 -36 Gordon 90 -35 Kincardine and Deeside 89 -40 Moray 96 -41 Badenoch and Strathspey 100 -31 Caithness 124 -52 Inverness 102 -28 Lochaber 125 -34 Nairn 95 -21 Ross and Cromarty 130 -52 Skye and Lochalsh 125 -39 Sutherland 132 -45 East Lothian 110 -28 Edinburgh City 120 -2 Midlothian 102 -1 West Lothian 110 -24 Argyll and Bute 149 -18 Bearsden and Milngavie 103 -40 Clydebank 155 29 Clydesdale 99 -13 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 114 -15 Cumnock and Doon Valley 108 5 Cunninghame 120 8 Dumbarton 119 10 East Kilbride 104 -23 Eastwood 95 -39 Glasgow City 152 55 Hamilton 112 21 Inverclyde 126 -1 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 111 14 Kyle and Carrick 109 -17 Monklands 130 0 Motherwell 118 5 Renfrew 116 26 Strathkelvin 118 -10 Angus 99 -32 Dundee City 131 6 Perth and Kinross 103 -34 District Total 119 0 Notes:
1. Domestic element has been split between tiers broadly in proportion to their rateborne expenditure with 6p to regions, 2p to districts.
2. The safety net is calculated in relation to 1985–86 to ensure that the total claim on domestic ratepayers is unchanged if spending remains constant.