§ 18. Mr. SteelTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the current average annual administrative cost per head of(a) regional councils, (b) district councils, and (c) island councils, in Scotland; and if he will publish in the Official Report the costs of running each individual council in Scotland.
§ Mr. RifkindThe average figures per head are:
£ Regional Councils 859 District Councils 389 Island Councils 2,106 Total figures for each authority are as follows:
Administrative costs 1987–88 £'000 Borders 61,381 Central 166,905 Dumfries and Galloway 93,158 Fife 229,340 Grampian 319,790 Highland 148,645 Lothian 470,412 Strathclyde 1,563,204 Tayside 255,846 Total regions 3,308,681 Orkney 34,072 Shetland 44,095 Western Isles 35,515 Total islands 113,683 351W
£'000 Berwickshire 3,029 Ettrick and Lauderdale 5,975 Roxburgh 8,295
£'000 Tweeddale 2,126 Clackmannan 14,917 Falkirk 36,940 Stirling 23,931 Annandale and Eskdale 6,213 Nithsdale 11,134 Stewartry 3,725 Wigtown 7,119 Dunfermline 28,459 Kirkcaldy 40,235 North East Fife 14,318 Aberdeen City 64,822 Banff and Buchan 15,922 Gordon 9,303 Kincardine and Deeside 5,675 Moray 17,413 Badenoch and Strathspey 1,729 Caithness 4,392 Inverness 12,209 Lochaber 4,328 Nairn 1,546 Ross and Cromarty 10,489 Skye and Lochalsh 1,824 Sutherland 2,562 East Lothian 20,393 Edinburgh City 139,436 Midlothian 16,470 West Lothian 36,791 Argyll and Bute 19,817 Bearsden and Milngavie 5,126 Clydebank 18,043 Clydesdale 12,766 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 8,336 Cumnock and Doon Valley 13,200 Cunninghame 34,172 Dumbarton 21,627 East Kilbride 10,356 Eastwood 6,181 Glasgow City 386,262 Hamilton 31,321 Inverclyde 34,927 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 24,204 Kyle and Carrick 28,673 Monklands 36,724 Motherwell 53,079 Renfrew 58,784 Strathkelvin 16,824 Angus 20,222 Dundee City 59,653 Perth and Kinross 24,519 Total districts 1,496,536 Scotland 4,918,900