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Housing income and expenditure
31/01/2007
Information on housing income and expenditure is published today in the statistical bulletin Local Authority Housing Income and Expenditure 2004-05 to 2006-07.
The bulletin presents information about housing debt, supervision and management costs, repairs and maintenance costs, direct spending on capital works and rental income.
The main points are:
- The number of local authority housing properties continues to reduce; the rate of three per cent between 2005 and 2006 being consistent with previous years
- There is a range of £21.12 between the highest and the lowest rents; Inverclyde Council is expected to continue to have the highest rent in Scotland (£57.90) and Moray Council the lowest (£36.78)
- Average management and maintenance expenditure is expected to increase by 5.4 per cent to £1,595 per unit
- Supervision and management costs (part of management and maintenance) are expected to increase by 6.2 per cent to an average of £582 per unit
- Repairs and maintenance is reported to be an average of £1,013 per unit, an increase of 4.9 per cent on 2005-06, with North Ayrshire reporting the highest level of expenditure per unit (£1,239) and Orkney Islands the lowest (£690 per unit)
- Housing debt in Scotland continues to reduce, but there is wide variation across local authorities in their levels of debt; Orkney Islands and East Lothian are both debt free, whereas Shetland reports housing debt of £27,248 per unit and City of Edinburgh £11,026
- Councils with higher than average housing debt also spend proportionately more supporting debt; Shetland continues to report over 80 per cent of rental income supporting debt (and is now the only local authority which qualifies for Housing Support Grant); other local authorities are also spending a significant proportion of rental income supporting debt, including Edinburgh (45 per cent), West Dunbartonshire (44 per cent), Renfrewshire (43 per cent) and Inverclyde (40 per cent)
- Total capital expenditure in 2006-07 is projected to be £493 million, an increase of £66 million (15 per cent) on 2005-06, with Midlothian, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire projecting the highest increases
- Authorities requiring significant amounts of additional Prudential Borrowing to fund housing investment in 2006-07 include East Lothian, City of Edinburgh, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire