§ Dr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give figures for rents for private tenancies by local authority area.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThis information is not available for all private tenancies. Information is held centrally only in respect of the average rent of tenancies where the rent has been registered by the rent officer.
Average registered rents for the calendar year 1989 are set out in the table:
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Area Average registered rent £/annum Borders Berwickshire 1,327.50 Ettrick and Lauderdale 1,025.84 Roxburgh 922.36 Tweeddale 1,443.70 Central Clackmannan 850.00 Falkirk 339.20 Stirling 1,476.66 Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale 1,167.28 Nithsdale 1,427.73 Stewartry 1,330.22 Wigtown 1,534.75 Fife Dunfermline 1,584.65 Kirkcaldy 1,667.34 North East Fife 1,508.72 Grampian City of Aberdeen 1,332.90 Banff and Buchan 1,302.89 Gordon 1,645.26 Kincardine and Deeside 1,782.48 Moray 1,597.38 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey 1,879.09 Caithness 1,088.32 Inverness 955.03 Lochaber 1,167.20 Nairn 724.80
Area Average registered rent £/annum Ross and Cromarty 1,117.22 Skye and Lochalsh 1,020.00 Sutherland 905.00 Lothian East Lothian 1,604.31 City of Edinburgh 1,448.92 Midlothian 1,255.30 West Lothian 1,897.43 Strathclyde Argyll 1,198.67 Bearsden and Milngavie 1,840.00 Clydebank 835.21 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1— Cumnock and Doon Valley 772.40 Cunninghame 1,124.26 Dumbarton 777.54 East Kilbride 2,489.33 Eastwood 1,302.85 City of Glasgow 1,023.77 Hamilton 983.50 Inverclyde 1,337.89 Kilmarnock and Loudon 1,096.66 Kyle and Carrick 1,624.12 Lanark 1,400.15 Monklands 979.09 Motherwell 1,154.62 Renfrew 1,308.82 Strathkelvin 1,478.40 Tayside Angus 1,327.04 City of Dundee 1,211.77 Perth and Kinross 1,259.80 Islands Councils Orkney Islands 1,300.00 Shetland Islands 817.20 Western Isles 1— 1 No rents registered.