Written question asked by Gordon McMaster (Labour), in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 3 March 1995. It was answered by George Kynoch (Conservative) on Friday, 3 March 1995 on behalf of the Scottish Office.

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Scottish Office

Question

How the additional borrowing consent allocated by him to (a)Renfrew District Council and (b) Strathclyde Regional Council following the floods of December 1994 impact on their budgets for 1994-95; how will consent for general services borrowing impact on future years' revenue expenditure on loan debt charges; how additional housing borrowing consent for Renfrew District Council will impact on future years' HRA expenditure on loan debt charges; how the additional loan charges will be taken into account in allocations of aggregate external finance to each authority in future years; how this formula is likely to impact on (i) the council tax and (ii) the annual rent levels of chargepayers and tenants; how it will impact on successor unitary authorities; if he will define the concept of top-slicing as it is applied to the (a) capital and (b) revenue budgets of Scottish local authorities, in relation to the general services, specific services and housing services grants awarded to regional and district councils; and how this concept will apply to the proposed unitary authorities. - Inc fig.

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Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

255 c770-1W;255 c769W

Session

1994-95

Subjects

Capital investment Borrowing Housing Floods Local government Local government finance Scotland Strathclyde Regional Council Renfrew District Council

Contains statistics

Yes