To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the average percentage increase in allowances, salary or honoraria payable to members of (a) local authorities, (b) health boards, (c) Scottish Homes or its predecessor and (d) other quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisa-tions to which he appoints in each year since 1974; what other types of payment are made; and if he will make a statement.

[holding answer 7 June 1993]: The rates of allowances paid to local authority members are reviewed on a regular basis. Details of the allowances paid to individual local authority members are not held centrally as each authority decides on its own arrangements within the requirements of the Local Authorities Etc (Allowances) (Scotland) Regulations 1991, as amended. Information about salaries and fees for members of non-departmental public bodies, including health boards and Scottish Homes and its predecessor bodies, for the period from 1982 is published annually in "Public Bodies", copies of which are in the Library of the House. The other information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.