§ Mr. Mackintoshasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the number of houses in Scotland lacking an internal lavatory, the number lacking a bath, lacking a cooking stove and lacking a sink, expressing these numbers as a percentage of the total housing stock in Scotland and the same percentages of the total housing stock in England.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe latest available information about absence of internal lavatories and baths, published in the Sample Census 1966, is given in the table below. Figures are not available in regard to cooking stoves and sinks.
of that term, expressing this number as a percentage of the total housing stock in Scotland and the same percentage for England.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe latest available information is that provided by the Sample Census 1966 which showed that in Scotland 86,000 households (5.4 per cent. of the total number) were living at a density of over 1½ persons per room. In England the corresponding figure was 180,000 (1.;2 per cent. of the total number).