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asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will make available to Parliament information in the form of Table II of the White Papers, Cmd. 7253 and 7256, showing the effect of the proposed Exchequer equalisation grant and Exchequer transitional grant under the Local Government Bill now before Parliament on the rates levied by each small burgh in Scotland.
The preparation of a return showing the effect on the rates of each of the 172 small burghs in Scotland would be a very big task and would not, I think, justify the labour involved. The particulars already published for each county give a fair indication, so far as it
| Authority. | Under Local Government Bill Estimated Weighting for | Under existing Acts Weighting for | |||
| (a) Sparsity. | (b) Children under 15. | (a) Sparsity. | (b) Children under 5. | ||
| LARGE BURGHS | |||||
| Aberdeen | … | — | 42,002 | — | 107,023 |
| Airdrie | … | — | 8,322 | — | 26,475 |
| Arbroath | … | — | 4,246 | — | 6,148 |
| Ayr | … | — | 10,182 | — | 22,693 |
| Clydebank | … | — | 8,222 | — | 34,433 |
| Coatbridge | … | — | 13,399 | — | 44,973 |
| Dumbarton | … | — | 6,008 | — | 14,483 |
| Dumfries | … | — | 6,293 | — | 12,234 |
| Dundee | … | — | 41,438 | — | 116,187 |
| Dunfermline | … | — | 9,910 | — | 17,255 |
| Edinburgh | … | — | 100,776 | — | 189,341 |
| Falkirk | … | — | 8,818 | — | 23,928 |
| Glasgow | … | — | 269,008 | — | 838,649 |
| Greenock | … | — | 20,812 | — | 67,284 |
| Hamilton | … | — | 11,656 | — | 40,350 |
| Inverness | … | — | 5,880 | — | 12,482 |
| Kilmarnock | … | — | 10,109 | — | 29,389 |
| Kirkcaldy | … | — | 10,700 | — | 22,514. |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | … | — | 17,977 | — | 55,239 |
| Paisley | … | — | 22,790 | — | 55,795 |
| Perth | … | — | 8,204 | — | 13,883 |
| Port Glasgow | … | — | 6,317 | — | 22,518 |
| Rutherglen | … | — | 5,621 | — | 9,118 |
| Stirling | … | — | 6,980 | — | 18,211 |
| TOTAL | … | — | 655,670 | — | 1,800,605 |
is possible to estimate from the 1946–47 figures, of the probable degree of relief over the whole area, including the small burghs.