113. Mr. Edward M. Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many houses in Scotland are classified as slums or houses which it is not possible or practicable to improve; and what percentage of these is within the Glasgow boundary.
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§ Mr. RossIn submitting this year the slum clearance programmes for which I had called, the Scottish local authorities estimated that about 90,000 houses, 11,000 of them in Glasgow, should be replaced as soon as possible. In the absence of a specific standard on which to base them, the figures given by local authorities clearly cover, by and large, only the worst of the houses. As my recent White Paper indicated, the number of slums and old houses incapable of improvement may be as many as half a million.