§ Mr. McMasterTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the percentage of annual rent charges committed to loan charge payments in each Scottish district council; and if he will make a statement.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonLocal authority rental income is not committed or allocated to meet any particular item or items of expenditure debited to housing revenue accounts. The following table expresses the total loan charges debited to the 1990–91 housing revenue accounts of local authorities in Scotland as a percentage of the standard rental income credited to those accounts.
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Percentage Berwickshire 64.1 Ettrick and Lauderdale 56.4 Roxburgh 93.2 Tweeddale 42.1 Clackmannan 50.1 Falkirk 55.8 Stirling 59.0 Annandale and Eskdale 101.1 Nithsdale 60.6 Stewartry 92.2 Wigtown 96.2 Dunfermline 48.6 Kirkcaldy 53.3 North East Fife 44.8 Aberdeen 66.6 Banff and Buchan 61.2 Gordon 142.4 Kincardine and Deeside 139.7 Moray 67.8 Badenoch and Strathspey 135.3 Caithness 106.4 Inverness 100.9 Lochaber 148.6
Percentage Nairn 106.7 Ross and Cromarty 139.1 Skye and Lochalsh 211.1 Sutherland 126.4 East Lothian 58.8 Edinburgh 50.0 Midlothian 45.8 West Lothian 57.6 Argyll and Bute 85.2 Bearsden and Milngavie 76.8 Clydebank 59.8 Clydesdale 35.6 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 52.8 Cumnock and Doon Valley 39.1 Cunninghame 50.6 Dumbarton 35.8 East Kilbride 63.6 Eastwood 44.2 Glasgow 72.8 Hamilton 53.4 Inverclyde 51.9 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 45.3 Kyle and Carrick 55.0 Monklands 56.8 Motherwell 51.9 Renfrew 49.6 Strathkelvin 50.9 Angus 51.6 Dundee 60.2 Perth and Kinross 54.5 Orkney Islands 124.7 Shetland Islands 270.6 Western Isles 224.6