§ Mr. MaxtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the number of public sector tenants in arrears with their rent in each district and islands council in Scotland; and if he will give it as a percentage of all tenants in each authority.
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§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe information requested is shown in the table below, which is derived from statistical returns made by local authorities to the Scottish Development Department earlier this year.
Authority Number in arrears1 Percentage of tenants2 Berwickshire 497 21.32 Ettrick and Lauderdale 680 17.81 Roxburgh 677 13.49 Tweeddale 542 39.74 Clackmannan 2,902 36.18 Falkirk 18,000 28.75 Stirling 5,834 52.91 Annandale and Eskdale n/a — Nithsdale 32,800 40.88 Stewartry 964 43.15 Wigtown 302 7.36 Dunfermline 7,774 43.45 Kirkcaldy 7,941 36.23 North East Fife 1,625 26.34 Aberdeen 8,557 23.72 Banff and Buchan 2,993 27.09 Gordon 674 12.32 Kincardine and Deeside 504 14.24 Moray 1,602 16.76 Badenoch and Strathspey 179 17.95 Caithness 1,254 33.65 Inverness 2,017 31.89 Lochaber 307 11.46 Nairn 166 15.70 Ross and Cromarty 2,904 48.89 Skye and Lochalsh 300 36.81 Sutherland 229 13.36 East Lothian 5,911 45.95 Edinburgh 14,600 33.54 Midlothian 3,257 32.52 West Lothian 3,433 18.41 Argyll and Bute 2,093 27.59 Bearsden and Milngavie n/a — Clydebank 7,815 77.14 Clydesdale 3,391 39.74 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1,707 45.89 Cumnock and Doon Valley n/a — Cunninghame 7,443 37.48 Dumbarton 5,115 47.55 East Kilbride 224 47.43 Eastwood 203 12.16 Glasgow 78,568 50.80 Hamilton 7,250 36.20 Inverclyde n/a — Kilmarnock and Loudoun 5,057 33.79 Kyle and Carrick n/a — Monklands 6,435 25.03 Motherwell 15,047 42.45 Renfrew n/a — Strathkelvin 1,501 17.05 Angus 1,394 11.47 Dundee n/a — Perth and Kinross 3,917 29.37 Orkney Islands n/a — Shetland Islands 818 31.89 Western Isles 837 35.78 1 Number of local authority dwellings in respect of which tenants were in arrears of rent at 31 March 1990. 2 Percentage of local authority dwellings in respect of which tenants were in arrears of rent at 31 March 1990. 3 Approximate figures.