HC Deb 25 May 2004 vol 421 c1541W
David Burnside

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list by district council area the(a) total amount of debt owed by each of the 26 local authorities and (b) the amount of debt per elector in each district. [174379]

Angela Smith

The amount of debt owed by each of the 26 district councils and the amount per elector in each district, at 31 March 2003, is set out in following table.

District council Debt (£) Number of

electors

Debt per

elector (£)

Antrim1 5,924,159 29,301 202.18
Ards1 17,365,391 48,962 354.67
Armagh 23,116,660 37,030 624.27
Ballymena1 23,576,459 40,836 577.34
Ballymoney 5,006,373 18,707 267.62
Banbridge 13,327,993 28,685 464.63
Belfast1 23,601,119 155,929 151.36
Carrickfergus1 9,718,566 24,470 397.16
Castlereagh 19,030,679 42,679 445.90
Coleraine1 22,427,214 35,155 637.95
Cookstown 1,689,565 22,087 76.50
Craigavon1 8,614,863 53,040 162.42
Derry 20,256,762 63,434 319.34
Down 8,715,435 41,863 208.19
Dungannon and South Tyrone 1,766,842 33,129 53.33
Fermanagh 2,188,192 40,742 53.71
Larne 5,260,870 20,434 257.46
Limavady 8,999,312 20,086 448.04
Lisburn1 26,557,800 66,498 399.38
Magherafelt 78,117 27,551 2.84
Moyle1 7,004,403 10,576 662.29
Newry and Mourne 21,973,624 57,365 383.05
Newtownabbey 29,018,716 51,613 562.24
North Down1 15,551,195 49,671 313.08
Omagh 9,340,300 31,709 294.56
Strabane 2,725,066 25,388 107.34
1 Includes borrowings raised for housing, prior to the establishment of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.