Housing Support Grant

HC Deb 15 July 1988 vol 137 c393W

Mr. Nigel Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will update the information contained in the answer of 26 October 1987, Official Report, column 118, on the housing support grant or equivalent figure for Scotland, repriced for inflation for each year since 1978; and if he will give the percentage change over the previous year

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information is set out in the table:

Year	Amount of grant paid at 1988–89	Percentage change over previous year
	average prices1£
1978–79	—2	—
1979–80	391,595,559	—
1980–81	353,185,167	-9.8
1981–82	228,005,690	-35.4
1982–83	137,560,798	-39.7
1983–84	90,578,082	-34.2
1984–85	80,821,598	-10.8
1985–86	72,824,695	-9.9
1986–87	48,810,476	-33.0
1987–88	43,804,169	-10.3
1988–89	354,631,469	+24.7
1Using GDP deflators.
1Information for 1978–79 is not readily available.
3Estimated