§ Mr. MaxtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing levels of rent arrears in public sector housing in Scotland as a whole and in each district and island area on 30 September for each year since 1979.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 31 October 1989]: I refer the hon. Member to my reply of 26 January 1989 to the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Mrs. Michie) at columns 723–26. Updated information for 1988 is given in the table:
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Rent arrears in Scottish public sector at 30 September 1988 £ SCOTLAND 32,933,736 Local Authorities 30,067,921 Berwickshire1 54,638 Ettrick and Lauderdale 40,664 Roxburgh 100,708 Tweeddale 15,813 Clackmannan 800,903 Falkirk 667,830 Stirling 635,700 Annandale and Eskdale 121,708 Nithsdale 322,710 Stewartry 31,137 Wigtown 173,229 Dunfermline 669,523 Kirkcaldy 698,990 North East Fife 117,675 Aberdeen 1,144,379 Banff and Buchan 277,064 Gordon 76,225 Kincardine and Deeside 48,878 Moray 105,555 Badenoch and Strathspey 17,900 Caithness 109,666 Inverness n/a Lochaber 53,259 Nairn n/a Ross and Cromarty 268,364 Skye and Lochalsh 27,400 Sutherland 29,279 East Lothian 416,583 Edinburgh 1,709,041 Midlothian 279,632 West Lothian 239,049 Argyll and Bute 167,810 Bearsden and Milngavie 126,374 Clydebank 1,567,976 Clydesdale 191,031 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 446,934 Cumnock and Doon Valley 391,219 Cunninghame 304,415 Dumbarton1 445,232 East Kilbride 40,059 Eastwood 38,237 Glasgow 10,241,488 Hamilton 487,120 Inverclyde 318,000 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 214,026 Kyle and Carrick 333,026 Monklands 958,767 Motherwell 1,063,807
£ Renfrew 1,226,984 Strathkelvin 459,718 Angus 117,843 Dundee 1,019,368 Perth and Kinross 188,615 Orkney Islands 57,583 Shetland Islands 111,934 Western Isles 296,853 New Towns 1,071,975 Cumbernauld 201,464 East Kilbride 230,889 Glenrothes 291,405 Irvine 115,910 Livingston 232,307 SSHA 1,793,840 n/a Not available. 1 Figures include rate arrears.