§ 47. Mr. Stodartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how, many houses 183W there are in each county of Scotland which are owned by a local authority, and whose occupation is restricted or supposed to be restricted to agricultural workers, retired agricultural workers or those whose work is regarded as being ancillary to agriculture.
§ Mr. RossScottish local authorities have provided 3,098 houses with special Exchequer assistance which requires them or an equivalent number of other houses to be reserved for the agricultural population The following table gives the detailed figures.
Number of local authority houses provided specially for the agricultural population County Aberdeen 466 Angus 176 Argyll 18 Ayr 312 Banff 48 Berwick 81 Caithness 20 Clackmannan 42 Dumfries 227 Dunbarton 62 East Lothian 133 Fife 95 Inverness 24 Kincardine 90 Kinross 14 Kirkcudbright 88 Lanark 444 Midlothian 78 Moray 72 Nairn 8 Peebles 26 Perth 182 Renfrew 36 Ross and Cromarty 24 Roxburgh 80 Selkirk 12 Stirling 166 West Lothian 28 Wigtown 44 Total 3,098