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Dr. Cunningham
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the outturn or estimated outturn total of rate support grant paid to local authorities in Scotland in total in each year from 1979–80 to 1987–88.
Mr. Lang
The information requested is set out in the table.
| £ | |
| 1979–80 | 1,194,800,000 |
| 1980–81 | 1,451,000,000 |
| 1981–82 | 1,512,300,000 |
| 1982–83 | 1,633,100,000 |
| 1983–84 | 1,718,250,000 |
| Table 1 | ||||||||
| Catering services staff: whole time equivalent | ||||||||
| 31 March 1982 | 31 March 1983 | 31 March 1987 | 30 September 1987(c) | |||||
| (a) | (b) | (a) | (b) | (a) | (b) | (a) | (b) | |
| Scotland | 5,765·1 | 194·7 | 5,793·7 | 195·0 | 5,005·3 | 172·5 | 4,900·8 | 167·2 |
| CSA | 21·0 | 1·0 | 26·3 | 2·0 | 19·1 | 1·0 | 18·7 | 1·0 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 450·5 | 17·0 | 436·6 | 18·0 | 370·0 | 12·0 | 359·4 | 11·0 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 313·8 | 12·0 | 333·7 | 14·0 | 328·3 | 13·0 | 323·8 | 11·0 |
| Borders | 68·6 | 2·0 | 72·2 | 3·0 | 76·5 | 3·0 | 75·1 | 3·0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 184·8 | 5·0 | 180·9 | 4·0 | 176·1 | 4·6 | 170·8 | 5·8 |
| Fife | 271·4 | 9·0 | 271·1 | 10·0 | 274·4 | 11·0 | 271·9 | 11·0 |
£
| |
| 1984–85 | 1,670,870,312 |
| 1985–86 | 1,704,059,747 |
| 1986–87 | 1,656,162,143 |
| 1987–88 | 1,777,322,740 |
Note:
The figures given for 1985–86, 1986–87 and 1987–88 are estimates based on the latest expenditure returns submitted by local authorities.