HC Deb 16 May 1989 vol 153 cc132-3W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing for each local authority in Scotland(a) the community charge level for 1989–90, (b) the Government's previous estimate of the level of community charge and (c) the percentage difference between (a) and (b).

Mr. Lang

The information requested is set out in the table. The Government's estimates were of what each authority's community charge would be if the authority maintained the level of services provided in 1988–89 and therefore did not increase the volume of its spending. The figures for regional and islands councils include water charges.

Actual Community Charge £ Government Estimate £ Percentage Difference per cent.
Borders 205 151 35.8
Central 213 167 27.8
Dumfries and Galloway 206.5 157 31.4
Fife 238 206 15.8
Grampian 219 150 46.2
Highland 200 165 21.2
Lothian 305 247 23.6
Strathclyde 219 221 -0.8
Tayside 241 193 24.7
Islands Councils
Orkney 148 84 77.1
Shetland 114.16 202 -43.5
Western Isles 171 126 36.2
District Council
Berwickshire 31 26 19.2
Ettrick and Lauderdale 42 29 44.8
Roxburgh 42 39 8.8
Tweeddale 43 23 84.5
Clackmannan 87 58 49.6
Falkirk 46 44 3.9
Stirling 97 83 17.6
Annandale and Eskdale 47 39 19.2
Nithsdale 39 35 10.6
Stewartry 37 39 -40
Wigtown 40 21 89.0
Dunfermline 55 43 26.6
Kirkcaldy 60 51 18.0
North East Fife 82 46 79.7
Aberdeen City 85 51 65.4
Banff and Buchan 56.7 35 60.2
Gordon 44 33 31.7
Kincardine and Deeside 32 18 76.4
Moray 42 26 59.6
Badenoch and Strathspey 35 21 69.1
Caithness 25 31 -18.5
Inverness 26 24 9.8
Lochaber 37 37 0.7
Nairn 28 16 76.9
Ross and Cromarty 39 25 56.4

Actual Community Charge Government Estimate Percentage Difference
£ £ per cent.
Skye and Lochalsh 25 22 12.8
Sutherland 6 3 139.0
East Lothian 69 60 15.0
Edinburgh City 87 66 31.3
Midlothian 59 59 -0.7
West Lothian 54 49 10.1
Argyll and Bute 58 72 -19.7
Bearsden and Milngavie 79 58 35.5
Clydebank 78 72 8.0
Clydesdale 82 72 13.5
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 56 72 -22.5
Cumnock and Doon Valley 57 72 -21.1
Cunninghame 59 72 -18.3
Dumbarton 79 72 9.4
East Kilbride 99 72 37.1
Eastwood 63 43 47.6
Glasgow City 87 72 20.5
Hamilton 72 72 -0.3
Inverclyde 72 62 16.5
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 50 72 -30.8
Kyle and Carrick 89 69 28.6
Monklands 74 72 2.5
Motherwell 86 67 28.7
Renfrew 76 72 5.2
Strathkelvin 80 72 10.8
Angus 52 45 15.9
Dundee City 83 81 3.1
Perth and Kinross 58 43 34.1