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Housing income and expenditure
24/07/2007
Information on housing income and expenditure is published today in the statistical bulletin Local Authority Housing Income and Expenditure 2005-06 to 2007-08
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 to emerge are as follows:
- The number of local authority housing properties continues to reduce; the rate of 5.3 per cent between 2006 and 2007 being consistent with previous years taking account of housing stock transfers to registered social landlords
- There is a range of £20.04 between the highest and the lowest rents; City of Edinburgh Council is expected to have the highest rent in Scotland (£58.11) and Moray Council remains the lowest (£38.07)
- Average management and maintenance expenditure is expected to increase by 3.4 per cent to £1,656 per unit
- Supervision and management costs (part of management and maintenance) are expected to increase by 4 per cent to an average of £630 per unit
- Repairs and maintenance is reported to be an average of £1,026 per unit, an increase of 3.1 per cent on 2006-07, with Renfrewshire reporting the highest level of expenditure per unit (£1,397) and Angus the lowest (£568 per unit)
- Housing debt in Scotland is higher than last year. There is still a wide variation across local authorities in their levels of debt; Orkney Islands remains debt free, whereas Shetland and City of Edinburgh continue to have the highest outstanding housing debt of £28,121 and £12,475 per unit respectively
- Total capital expenditure in 2006-07 is projected to be £501 million, an increase of £39 million (8.per cent) on 2006-07, with Midlothian, Angus and Perth and Kinross projecting the highest increases