§ Mr. McMasterTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the current loan debt of Scottish local authorities; and if he will make a statement.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe estimated outstanding debt on each local authority's housing revenue account at 31 March 1991 is as follows:
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£ million Berwickshire 10.7 Ettrick and Lauderdale 14.1 Roxburgh 43.2 Tweeddale 3.7 Clackmannan 30.1 Falkirk 103.0 Stirling 50.7 Annandale and Eskdale 35.2 Nithsdale 32.6 Stewartry 15.7 Wigtown 23.2 Dunfermline 59.7 Kirkcaldy 83.4 North East Fife 27.3 Aberdeen 172.1 Banff and Buchan 58.3 Gordon 62.0 Kincardine and Deeside 34.1 Moray 55.1 Badenoch and Strathspey 8.4 Caithness 27.0 Inverness 48.5 Lochaber 32.8 Nairn 8.5 Ross and Cromarty 60.5 Skye and Lochalsh 14.1 Sutherland 17.2 East Lothian 50.9 Edinburgh 226.9 Midlothian 21.7 West Lothian 65.9 Argyll and Bute 50.4
£ million Bearsden and Milngavie 8.8 Clydebank 40.1 Clydesdale 20.6 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 15.4 Cumnock and Doon Valley 26.6 Cunninghame 70.5 Dumbarton 39.9 East Kilbride 4.6 Eastwood 5.9 Glasgow 976.1 Hamilton 75.2 Inverclyde 82.4 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 46.2 Kyle and Carrick 62.0 Monklands 102.4 Motherwell 110.4 Renfrew 120.9 Strathkelvin 40.8 Angus 36.5 Dundee 125.5 Perth and Kinross 49.2 Orkney Islands 10.8 Shetland Islands 49.2 Western Isles 40.2 Note: All figures are provisional.