§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many sheltered houses are provided by each district council in Scotland.
§ Mr. RifkindThe information is in the table below. A further 1,756 sheltered houses had at the same date been provided by the Scottish Special Housing Association, new town development corporations and housing associations. Details will be published shortly in Scottish Housing Statistics.
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SHELTERED HOUSING BY LOCAL AUTHORITY AT 31 MARCH 1979 Number of Local Authority Sheltered dwellings* SCOTLAND† 5,766 Borders 228 Berwickshire 42 Ettrick and Lauderdale 91 Roxburgh 53 Tweeddalet† 42 Central 285 Clackmannan 56 Falkirk† 147 Stirling† 82 Dumfries and Galloway 63 Annandale and Eskdale† 16 Nithsdale 22 Stewartry 25 Wigtown — Fife 766 Dunfermline 171 Kirkcaldy 553 North East Fife† 42 Grampian 827 Aberdeen City 523 Banff and Buchan 108 Gordon 82 Kincardine and Deeside 48 Moray 66 Highland 225 Badenoch and Strathspey 17 Caithness 69 Inverness 28 Lochaber 6 Nairn 22 Ross and Cromarty 75 Skye and Lochalsh — Sutherland 8 Lothian 147 East Lothian 34 Edinburgh City 92 Midlothian — West Lothian 21 Strathclyde 2,161 Argyll and Bute 18 Bearsden and Milngavie 94 Clydebank 40 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 139 Cumnock and Doon Valle 60
Cunninghame 191 Dumbarton 40 East Kilbride 145 Eastwood 60 Glasgow City 327 Hamilton 153 Inverclyde 100 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 123 Kyle and Carrick 205 Lanark 79 Monklands 79 Motherwell 154 Renfrew 134 Strathkelvin 20 Tayside 875 Angus 187 Dundee City 598 Perth and Kinross 90 Islands Councils 189 Orkney Islands 10 Shetland Islands 173 Western Isles† 6 *Including sheltered wheelchair housing. †Where current information is not available figures from 1976 Survey have been used.