HC Deb 19 May 1992 vol 208 cc129-30W
Mr. Kirkwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the amount of money spent by each local authority in Scotland in the last three years on home improvement grants.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

[holding answer 18 May 1992]: The available information on improvement grants paid by local authorities for the years 1989, 1990 and 1991 is set out in the table.

Improvement grants paid by local authorilies, year ended 31 December
£000
District Year
1989 Grants paid 1990 Grants paid 1991 Grants paid
Scotland 56,804 55,547 65,951
Borders
Berwickshire 1 345 385 388
Ettrick and Lauderdale 554 710 789
Roxburgh 473 547 511
Tweeddale 156 50 328
Central
Clackmannan 92 167 107
Falkirk 314 447 471
Stirling 460 337 535
Dumfries and Galloway
Annandale and Eskdale 208 363 216
Nithsdale 557 515 652
Stcwartry 65 190 141
Wigtown 210 201 388
Fife
Dunfermline 596 5,637 673
Kirkcaldy 856 970 913
North East Fife 1,173 1,324 1,408
Grampian
Aberdeen 2,926 3,308 4,013
Banff and Buchan 615 518 449
Gordon 423 478 465
Kincardine and Deeside 597 909 722
Moray 777 542 732
Highland
Badenoch and Strathspey 72 88 89
Caithness 320 332 341
Inverness 554 913 601
Lochaber 459 268 440
Nairn 146 100 143
Ross and Cromarty 2.101 1,457 1,721
Skye and Lochalsh 763 669 910
Sutherland 363 464 482
Lothian
East Lothian 2,142 1,272 960
Edinburgh 7,512 5,900 9,152
Midlothian 359 380 400
West Lothian 4 783 719 795
Strathclyde
Argyll and Bute 3,784 2,253 2,421
Bearsden and Milngavie 71 70 16
Clydebank 34 58 26
Clydesdale 718 794 459
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 2 38 68 70
Cumnock and Doon Valley 166 241 168
Cunninghame 613 1,002 4,261

District Year
1989 Grants paid 1990 Grants paid 1991 Grants paid
Dumbarton 3 4 228 75 16
East Kilbride 94 148 199
Eastwood 37 43 28
Glasgow 11,622 12,184 13,730
Hamilton 69 458 366
Inverclyde 1 1,821 2,707 2,886
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 169 318 131
Kyle and Carrick 486 248 452
Monklands 84 228 245
Motherwell 324 270 496
Renfrew 1,497 1,761 1,829
Strathkelvin 200 196 227
Tayside
Angus 538 543 485
Dundee 1,336 2,026 1,949
Perth and Kinross 1,388 579 403
Islands Councils
Orkney Islands 1 991 838 755
Shetland Islands 2 76 100 88
Western Isles 3,448 3,254 4,309
Returns outstanding:
1 Quarter 2 1989.
2 Quarter 3 1989.
3 Quarter 3 1990.
4 Quarter 4 1990.

Mr. Kirkwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will now consider increasing the funds available to local housing authorities to enable them to offer more grants for home improvement schemes.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

[holding answer 18 May 1992]: The gross final non-housing revenue account capital allocations for local authority expenditure in support of private sector housing in 1992–93 total £121.016 million. This represents a substantial increase of 8.9 per cent. over the corresponding allocations for 1991–92. It is for local authorities themselves to decide how best to deploy these resources to meet local housing needs, including the need for home improvement grants.