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Mr. Maxton
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the number of public sector tenants in arrears with their rent in each district and islands council in Scotland; and if he will give it as a percentage of all tenants in each authority.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
The information requested is shown in the table below, which is derived from statistical returns made by local authorities to the Scottish Development Department earlier this year.
| Authority | Number in arrears1 | Percentage of tenants2 |
| Berwickshire | 497 | 21·32 |
| Ettrick and Lauderdale | 680 | 17·81 |
| Roxburgh | 677 | 13·49 |
| Tweeddale | 542 | 39·74 |
| Clackmannan | 2,902 | 36·18 |
| Falkirk | 18,000 | 28·75 |
| Stirling | 5,834 | 52·91 |
| Annandale and Eskdale | n/a | — |
| Nithsdale | 32,800 | 40·88 |
| Stewartry | 964 | 43·15 |
| Wigtown | 302 | 7·36 |
| Dunfermline | 7,774 | 43·45 |
| Kirkcaldy | 7,941 | 36·23 |
| North East Fife | 1,625 | 26·34 |
| Aberdeen | 8,557 | 23·72 |
| Banff and Buchan | 2,993 | 27·09 |
| Gordon | 674 | 12·32 |
| Kincardine and Deeside | 504 | 14·24 |
| Moray | 1,602 | 16·76 |
| Badenoch and Strathspey | 179 | 17·95 |
| Caithness | 1,254 | 33·65 |
| Inverness | 2,017 | 31·89 |
| Lochaber | 307 | 11·46 |
| Nairn | 166 | 15·70 |
| Ross and Cromarty | 2,904 | 48·89 |
| Skye and Lochalsh | 300 | 36·81 |
| Sutherland | 229 | 13·36 |
| East Lothian | 5,911 | 45·95 |
| Edinburgh | 14,600 | 33·54 |
| Midlothian | 3,257 | 32·52 |
| West Lothian | 3,433 | 18·41 |
| Argyll and Bute | 2,093 | 27·59 |
| Bearsden and Milngavie | n/a | — |
| Clydebank | 7,815 | 77·14 |
| Clydesdale | 3,391 | 39·74 |
| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | 1,707 | 45·89 |
| Cumnock and Doon Valley | n/a | — |
| Cunninghame | 7,443 | 37·48 |
| Dumbarton | 5,115 | 47·55 |
| East Kilbride | 224 | 47·43 |
| Eastwood | 203 | 12·16 |
| Glasgow | 78,568 | 50·80 |
| Hamilton | 7,250 | 36·20 |
| Inverclyde | n/a | — |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 5,057 | 33·79 |
| Kyle and Carrick | n/a | — |
| Monklands | 6,435 | 25·03 |
| Motherwell | 15,047 | 42·45 |
| Renfrew | n/a | — |
| Strathkelvin | 1,501 | 17·05 |
| Angus | 1,394 | 11·47 |
| Dundee | n/a | — |
| Perth and Kinross | 3,917 | 29·37 |
| Orkney Islands | n/a | — |
| Shetland Islands | 818 | 31·89 |
| Western Isles | 837 | 35·78 |
| 1 Number of local authority dwellings in respect of which tenants were in arrears of rent at 31 March 1990. | ||
| 2 Percentage of local authority dwellings in respect of which tenants were in arrears of rent at 31 March 1990. | ||
| 3 Approximate figures. | ||