§ 21. Mr. Youngerasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his latest estimate of the number of council houses in Scotland; and how many have been empy for over eight weeks.
§ Mr. Hugh D. BrownThere are almost 900,000 local authority houses in Scotland. Information on persistently vacant houses is not collected centrally, but the available evidence is that they form only a very small part of the stock.