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Written Question · S2W-20174 · Session 2

What the expenditure per head was in each local authority, broken down into (a) education, (b) highways and transport, (c) social services,…

Answered Asked by Brian Monteith Con Lodged 28 Oct 2005

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the expenditure per head was in each local authority, broken down into (a) education, (b) highways and transport, (c) social services, (d) housing, excluding housing revenue account (HRA), (e) culture, (f) environmental, (g) planning and development, (h) police, (i) courts, (j) central services, (k) other, (l) mandatory rent allowances, (m) mandatory rent rebates to non-HRA tenants and (n) mandatory rent rebates to HRA tenants, in the most recent year for which figures are available.

The answer

Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 Nov 2005 · 12 days after it was lodged, on time

The answers to questions (a)to (c) and (e) to (k) can be obtained from the following links on the Scottish Executivewebsite. Table 3 in the first link gives local authority expenditure by servicearea. The second link is to the most recent mid-year population estimates whichwill provide population figures to allow an “expenditure per-head” figure to becalculated. It should be noted that the “central services” expenditure heading containssome district court expenditure.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16945/SLGFS
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/recently-published-population-estimates/index.html.
The following tables providethe answers to questions (d) and (l)-(n), although, as indicated in the footnotes,the information does not distinguish between HRA tenants and non-HRA tenants.
Housing Expenditure ExcludingHousing Revenue Account, 2003-04

| Total Expenditure
(£000)
| Net Expenditure
(£000)

Scotland
| 494,298
| 52,109

Aberdeen City
| 15,093
| 2,413

Aberdeenshire
| 11,190
| 794

Angus
| 7,740
| 1,278

Argyll and Bute
| 1,994
| 518

Clackmannanshire
| 4,496
| 166

Dumfries and Galloway
| 19,679
| 1,284

Dundee City
| 14,274
| 1,463

East Ayrshire
| 399
| 196

East Dunbartonshire
| 6,087
| 745

East Lothian
| 10,389
| 552

East Renfrewshire
| 6,659
| 381

Edinburgh City
| 68,589
| 6,518

Eilean Siar
| 1,876
| 853

Falkirk
| 10,870
| 1,903

Fife
| 39,609
| 2,041

Glasgow City
| 127,964
| 18,831

Highland
| 15,746
| 1,509

Inverclyde
| 9,180
| 819

Midlothian
| 6,079
| 59

Moray
| 8,160
| 466

North Ayrshire
|

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-20174 by reference.