§ Mr. KirkwoodTo 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.
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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. KirkwoodTo 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.