New Towns (Employment) (Hansard, 27 February 1990)

§ Mr. Lang

[holding answer 12 February 1990]: The tables show the total employment and net employment change in each of the Scottish new towns for each of the past five years. The information is taken from annual employment surveys undertaken by each new town. Although new town annual reports give some information on job gains and losses, this is not available on a consistent or comprehensive basis.

Local income tax rate
	pence in £
Borders	8.5
Berwickshire	8.2
Ettrick and Lauderdale	8.5
Roxburgh	8.5
Tweeddale	8.6
Central	9.7
Clackmannan	10.4
Falkirk	8.9
Stirling	10.7
Dumfries and Galloway	8.5
Annandale and Eskdale	8.8
Nithsdale	8.5
Stewartry	8.4
Wigtown	8.5
Fife	10.4
Dunfermline	10.1

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	pence in £
Kirkcaldy	10.3
North East Fife	11.1
Grampian	9.7
Aberdeen	10.5
Banff and Buchan	9.5
Gordon	9.1
Kincardine and Deeside	8.7
Moray	9.0
Highland	7.9
Badenoch and Strathspey	8.1
Caithness	7.8
Inverness	7.8
Lochaber	8.2
Nairn	7.9
Ross and Cromarty	8.3
Skye and Lochalsh	7.8
Sutherland	7.1
Lothian	13.2
East Lothian	12.9
Edinburgh	13.5
Midlothian	12.6
West Lothian	12.4
Strathclyde	10.3
Argyll and Bute	9.6
Bearsden and Milngavie	10.3
Clydebank	10.3
Clydesdale	10.4
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	9.5
Cumnock and Doon Valley	9.5
Cunninghame	9.6
Dumbarton	10.3
East Kilbride	11.0
Eastwood	9.7
Glasgow	10.6
Hamilton	10.1
Inverclyde	10.1
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	9.3
Kyle and Carrick	10.6
Monklands	10.1
Motherwell	10.5
Renfrew	10.2
Strathkelvin	10.3
Tayside	10.7
Angus	10.1
Dundee	11.2
Perth and Kinross	10.3
Orkney	5.1
Shetland	3.9
Western Isles	5.2
SCOTLAND	10.4

Notes:

1. The local income tax rate for Scotland has been estimated for 1989–90 by dividing the total amount to be raised from the community charge (including the water charge) by an estimate of the yield of 1p on the basic rate of income tax for Scotland.

2. The income tax rates by authority assume resource equalisation ie that the yield of 1p in the £ is the same per adult in all areas.