HC Deb 14 February 1980 vol 978 cc776-9W
Mr. Cook

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report estimates of (a) the number of local authority, new town, Scottish Special Housing Association and other housing association houses that are, (i) one or two apartment houses and (ii) five, six or more apartment houses, in Scotland as a whole, and in each district or islands authority area in Scotland, (b) the number of one-or two-person households in Scotland as a whole and in each district or islands authority area in Scotland, and (c) the number of five, six or more person households in Scotland as a whole

PUBLIC SECTOR HOUSES BY APARTMENT SIZE 1979
Number of houses containing
Local Authority 2 apartments or less 5 apartments or more all houses
Berwickshire … … … … … 337 29 2,865
Ettrick and Lauderdale … … … … 906 209 4,982
Roxburgh … … … … … … 1,195 207 6,266
Tweeddale … … … … … … 215 61 1,628
Clackmannan … … … … … 1,632 245 9,652
Falkirk … … … … … … 2,862 1,404 33,530
Stirling … … … … … … 1,560 671 13,140
Annandale and Eskdale … … … … 665 177 4,958
Nithsdale* … … … … … … 1,161 333 8,373
Stewartry … … … … … … 415 83 2,545
Wigtown … … … … … … 587 161 4,709
Dunfermline … … … … … 2,812 847 23,200
Kirkcaldy … … … … … … 3,446 1,021 26,593
North East Fife … … … … … 1,235 203 7,999
City of Aberdeen … … … … … 8,171 349 38,268
Banff and Buchan … … … … 1,770 143 12,651
Gordon … … … … … … 1,227 59 6,095
Kincardine and Deeside … … … … 699 126 3,626
Moray … … … … … … 1,467 192 10,606
Badenoch and Strathspey … … … 127 61 1,071
Caithness … … … … … … 598 107 4,302
Inverness … … … … … … 1,111 134 7,013
Lochaber … … … … … … 179 147 3,367
Nairn … … … … … … 139 52 1,109
Ross and Cromarty … … … … 634 404 6,255
Skye and Lochalsh* … … … … 67 26 688
Sutherland … … … … … … 227 42 1,731
East Lothian … … … … … 1,644 591 16,428
City of Edinburgh … … … … 9,949 1,807 56,848
Midlothian … … … … … 899 693 13,162
West Lothian … … … … … 1,913 790 22,531
Argyll and Bute … … … … … 1,093 282 8,300
Bearsden and Milngavie … … … … 380 62 1,817
Clydebank … … … … … … 1,939 635 11,825
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth … … … 693 132 4,350
Cumnock and Doon … … … … 934 398 10,351
Cunninghame … … … … … 2,427 962 23,564
Dumbarton … … … … … 2,112 444 13,115
East Kilbride … … … … … 144 72 1,624
Eastwood … … … … … … 468 53 2,029
City of Glasgow … … … … … 29,313 5,373 174,996
Hamilton … … … … … … 2,913 893 22,856
Inverclyde … … … … … … 3,492 621 20,056
Kilmarnock and Loudoun … … … 2,535 356 18,188
Kyle and Carrick … … … … … 2,767 499 18,341
Lanark … … … … … … 1,389 276 9,661
Monklands … … … … … 2,826 1,251 28,540
Motherwell … … … … … 4,341 1,314 39,912
Renfrew … … … … … … 7,901 872 39,511
Strathkelvin … … … … … 1,509 390 10,959
Angus … … … … … … 3,267 339 14,579
City of Dundee … … … … … 8,425 780 40,117
Perth and Kinross … … … … 2,820 359 16,302
Orkney Islands Area … … … … 276 44 1,450
Shetland Islands Area … … … … 291 90 2,424
Western Isles Islands Area … … … 413 45 2,390
New Towns … … … … … 6,175 6,462 53,168

and in each district or islands authority area in Scotland.

Mr. Rifkind

The information requested on apartment-size is shown in the table below. Information on household size in the form requested is not available but estimates for the whole of Scotland only are given.

Local Authority Number of houses containing
2 apartments or less 5 apartments or more all houses
SSHA … … … … … … 4,836 7,470 92,558
Scotland … … … … … … 145,528 41,848 1,038,994
* Information for 1979 is not available: 1978 figures have been substituted.
Source: Scottish Development Department.
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS BY HOUSEHOLD SIZE, 1978
Number of households containing
One person Two persons Five or more persons All households
Scotland … … … 395,000 532,000 224,000 1,780,000
Source:General household survey Scottish Development Department.

Mr Cook

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report the latest available information on (a) the number of local authority, new town and Scottish Special Housing Association houses sold to sitting tenants in 1978, (b) the type and size of houses sold and (c) how such sales were financed, whether by a building society, a public sector loan, or privately.

1978 Mr. Rifkind

The available information is as follows:

Public Sector House Sales

Total Public Authorities, 738.

Local Authorities, 98.

New Towns, 636.

SSHA, 4.

Normally sales would have been to the sitting tenant but these figures may include a few houses sold to someone other than a sitting tenant. Information is not available centrally about the type and size of house sold in 1978 nor about the source of finance.