§ Mr. WilsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the level of council house rent arrears for each Scottish district and islands authority at(a) April 1986 and (b) April 1989.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonInformation on the accumulated rent arrears owed to Scottish local authorities is collected annually on the basis of arrears outstanding at 30 September. The amounts outstanding at 30 September 1985 and 30 September 1988 are as follows:
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Rent arrears of District and Islands Councils at 30 September 1985 1988 £ £ SCOTLAND 17,698,066 30,067,921 Berwickshire1 43,397 54,638 Ettrick and Lauderdale 28,780 40,664 Roxburgh 162,267 100,708 Tweeddale 19,568 15,813 Clackmannan 169,583 800,903 Falkirk 604,830 667,830 Stirling 362,592 635,700 Annandale and Eskdale 89,947 121,708 Nithsdale 138,123 322,710 Stewartry 16,908 31,137 Wigtown 67,272 173,229 Dunfermline 466,974 669,523 Kirkcaldy 381,896 698,990 North East Fife 63,600 117,675 Aberdeen 568,992 1,144,379 Banff and Buchan 194,557 277,064 Gordon 38,498 76,225 Kincardine and Deeside 25,599 48,878 Moray 41,825 105,555 Badenoch and Strathspey 11,981 17,900 Caithness 26,307 109,666 Inverness 137,154 2 Lochaber 97,700 53,259 Nairn 5,170 2 Ross and Cromarty 214,453 268,364
1985 1988 £ £ Skye and Lochalsh 24,687 27,400 Sutherland 14,254 29,279 East Lothian 213,935 416,583 Edinburgh 993,270 1,709,041 Midlothian 244,054 279,632 West Lothian 150,568 239,049 Argyll and Bute 65,299 167,810 Bearsden and Milngavie 30,484 126,374 Clydebank 516,541 1,567,976 Clydesdale 73,984 191,031 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 394,358 446,934 Cumnock and Doon Valley 269,013 391,219 Cunninghame 170,000 304,415 Dumbarton1 486,136 445,232 East Kilbride 35,536 40,059 Eastwood 25,392 38,237 Glasgow 5,814,000 10,241,488 Hamilton 537,661 487,120 Inverclyde 254,159 318,000 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 113,144 214,026 Kyle and Carrick 189,839 333,026 Monklands 594,509 958,767 Motherwell 743,287 1,063,807 Renfrew 463,214 1,226,984 Strathkelvin 468,721 459,718 Angus 94,055 117,843 Dundee 488,398 1,019,368 Perth and Kinross 132,890 188,615 Orkney Islands 34,091 57,583 Shetland Islands 94,614 111,934 Western Isles 2 296,853 1 Figures include rate arrears. 2 Not available.