§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the anticipated income for each local authority in Scotland for 1991–92 from(a) aggregate external finance and (b) community charges.
§ Mr. Allan Stewart[holding answer 25 March 1991]: The figures are shown in the table.
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Aggregate External Finance £000 Total CC Income £000 Borders 79,835 17,667 Central 182,112 54,602 Dumfries & Galloway 112,446 26,385 Fife 240,865 75,373 Grampian 346,160 83,647 Highland 184,082 36,917 Lothian 479,248 212,866 Strathclyde 1,693,546 434,203 Tayside 280,835 81,108 Berwickshire 1,484 555 Ettrick & Lauderdale 2,789 1,318 Roxburgh 3,121 1,311 Tweeddale 1,226 516 Clackmannan 5,122 3,758 Falkirk 13,365 4,988 Stirling 9,703 6,198 Annandale & Eskdale 2,530 1,919 Nithsdale 4,339 2,846 Stewartry 1,605 925 Wigtown 2,554 1,422 Dunfermline 11,592 6,915 Kirkcaldy 12,336 8,162 North East Fife 6,399 4,214 Aberdeen City 26,209 16,940 Banff & Buchan 7,183 4,045 Gordon 6,039 2,734 Kincardine & Deeside 3,766 1,184 Moray 7,159 2,669 Badenoch & Strathspey 938 368
Aggregate External Finance £000 Total CC Income £000 Caithness 2,338 659 Inverness 5,022 1,507 Lochaber 2,224 943 Nairn 796 279 Ross & Cromarty 5,761 2,148 Skye & Lochalsh 1,684 405 Sutherland 1,470 506 East Lothian 8,810 5,384 Edinburgh City 59,443 41,209 Midlothian 7,157 4,474 West Lothian 12,961 5,901 Argyll & Bute 10,224 4,831 Bearsden & Milngavie 3,497 2,366 Clydebank 6,891 3,993 Clydesdale 5,694 3,944 Cumbernauld & Kilsyth 5,204 2,795 Cumnock & Doon Valley 4,197 2,130 Cunninghame 14,601 10,456 Dumbarton 7,423 7,723 East Kilbride 5,637 6,735 Eastwood 4,272 2,070 Glasgow City 135,736 54,606 Hamilton 10,545 7,424 Inverclyde 10,830 5,585 Kilmarnock & Loudoun 7,232 4,458 Kyle & Carrick 10,697 9,700 Monklands 12,887 7,440 Motherwell 16,041 8,011 Renfrew 22,061 15,857 Strathkelvin 8,797 6,142 Angus 8,069 3,842 Dundee City 23,459 12,316 Perth & Kinross 11,913 5,725 Orkney 24,566 2,027 Shetland 54,719 2,399 Western Isles 53,017 3,624 Footnotes 1. The Community charge income figures shown are local authorities' own budgeted estimates for 1991–92 of community charge receipts from personal, collective and standard charges, inclusive of community charge benefits and receipts from the transitional relief and community charge reduction schemes. They accordingly reflect the position before the decision to increase the level of central government support for local authorities and to reduce all 1991–92 personal community charges by £140. 2. Aggregate External Finance includes revenue support grant, estimated non-domestic rate income and estimated specific grants for each authority. An additional £47.2 million of specific grant relating to the urban programme expenditure has not yet been allocated to individual authorities.
§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were(a) gross local authority revenue expenditure, (b) net local authority revenue expenditure, (c) rate support grant/revenue support grant, (d) local authority income from non-domestic rates and (e) local authority income from domestic rates/community charges at constant prices for each year from 1978–79 to 1991–92.
§ Mr. Allan Stewart[holding answer 25 March 1991]: The information is set out in the table:
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(1) Gross revenue expenditure £million (2) Net revenue expenditure £ million (3) RSG £ million (4) Non-domestic rate income (5) Domestic rates/ Community charge income £ million 1978–79 4,692.9 4,309.5 2,625.4 974.0 520.7 1979–80 4,921.4 4,532.9 2,583.3 989.6 523.5 1980.81 5,111.5 4,771.9 2,651.2 1,134.8 607.5 1981–82 5,218.3 4,835.1 2,519.9 1,391.2 768.0 1982–83 5,273.8 4,875.9 2,540.7 1,445.9 816.1 1983.84 5,323.8 4,908.1 2,555.0 1,3874.1 772.2 1984–85 5,299.6 4,869.5 2,364.7 1,373.2 784.4 1985–86 5,184.7 4,756.9 2,278.7 1,372.5 853.5 1986–87 53,16.0 4,881.5 2,148.5 1,437.5 911.2 1987–88 5,394.8 4,943.2 2,212.3 1,524.5 991.3 1988–89 5,469.5 4,961.3 2,289.7 1,510.5 994.6 1989–90 n/a 5,021.4 2,414.7 1,313.5 1,059.2 1990–91 n/a 5,131.9 2,495.3 1,189.0 1,062.1 1991–92 n/a 5,243.6 2,615.5 12,98.1 1,266.8 Notes:
1. Gross revenue expenditure figures are only obtained from local authorities in Local Financial Returns (LFRS). The LFR is for 1988–89
2. The figures in column 2 are taken from LFRS to 1988–89, Final Outturn returns for 1989–90, Provisional Outturn returns for 1990–91 and Budget Estimate returns for 1991–92.
3. In column 3 the figures represent the redetermined amounts of rate and revenue support grant where appropriate.
4. The figures in column 4 are Final Outturn to 1988–89. For 1989–90 to 1991–92 the figures represent the Non-Domestic Rate Income estimated by the Department as part of AEF.
5. In column 5 the figures are Final Outturn to 1988–89 and Provisional Outturn for 1990–91. The 1991–92 figure shown is the total of loca authorities' own budgeted estimates. It reflects the position before the decision to increase the level of central government support for loca: authorities and to reduce all 1991–92 personal community charges by £140.
6. All figures have been converted to real terms by means of the Treasury GDP deflator (March 1991). All years are at 1990–91.
Mr. McAnionTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the anticipated net local authority revenue expenditure and gross local authority revenue expenditure for 1991–92 for(a) all regional council services, (b) education, (c) police and fire services, (d) social work, (e) roads and transport, (f) loan charges attributable to regional services, (g) all district council services, (h) leisure and recreation services, (i) loan
Column 1 Revenue expenditure £ million Column 2 Loan and leasing charges £ million Total columns 1 and 2 £ million (a) All regional services 4,117.7 474.7 4,592.4 (b) Education1 2,278.8 167.5 2,446.4 (c) Police and Fire services1 598.4 30.2 628.6 (d) Social Work1 631.2 39.9 671.1 (e) Roads and Transport1 393.0 193.6 586.5 (f) Loan Charges (Regions) — 474.7 — (g) All district services 691.4 188.1 879.5 (h) Leisure and Recreation2 254.4 55.2 309.6 (i) Non-housing district loan charges — 188.1 — (j) Cleansing services3 164.8 16.4 181.2 (k) Libraries and Museums and Art Galleries 2 4 93.8 13.0 106.8 (l) Environmental Health services2 50.5 3.2 53.8 1 Figures include Regional and Island authority expenditure. 2 Figures include Regional, Island and District authority expenditure. 3 Figures include Island and District authority expenditure. 4 Figures include expenditure on Art Galleries as well as Museums as separate figures for these two services.