HC Deb 27 July 1993 vol 229 cc968-9W
Mr. Hendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by local authority the rent arrears owed by local authority tenants for the last year for which figures are available and the total rent owing.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Information on local authority rent arrears accumulated in individual years is not held centrally. The rent arrears outstanding to each local authority at 31 March 1992 is shown in the table. The total rent arrears written off as irrecoverable by local authorities in Scotland during 1992–93 is estimated to have been £6.25 million.

£
Berwickshire 39,721
Ettrick and Lauderdale 67,482
Roxburgh 27,392
Tweeddale 23,221
Clackmannan 453,115
Falkirk 814,783
Stirling 1,016,998
Annandale and Eskdale 122,911
Nithsdale 318,211
Stewartry 56,008
Wigtown 160,935
Dunfermline 559,961
Kirkcaldy 746,420
North East Fife 131,136
Aberdeen 1,476,770
Banff and Buchan 292,617
Gordon 83,046
Kincardine and Deeside 75,562
Moray 61,152
Badenoch and Strathspey 18,000
Caithness 84,606
Inverness 115,578
Lochaber 81,203
Nairn 13,304

£
Ross and Cromarty 199,304
Skye and Lochalsh 19,935
Sutherland 14,157
East Lothian 681,815
Edinburgh 2,013,333
Midlothian 230,960
West Lothian 441,324
Argyll and Bute 141,923
Bearsden and Milngavie 59,935
Clydebank 728,694
Clydesdale 454,758
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 369,450
Cumnock and Doon Valley 354,792
Cunninghame 582,078
Dumbarton 838,160
East Kilbride 47,218
Eastwood 31,277
Glasgow 12,726,402
Hamilton 757,260
Inverclyde 930,352
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 293,435
Kyle and Carrick 611,616
Monklands 829,249
Motherwell 884,199
Renfrew 2,137,488
Strathkelvin 614,339
Angus 101,368
Dundee 1,256,271
Perth and Kinross 140,682
Orkney Islands 54,573
Shetland Islands 156,964
Western Isles 332,250
Total 35,875,693

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