§ Mr. Canavanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each housing authority area in Scotland the total number of council houses sold to sitting tenants since the Tenants' Rights, etc (Scotland) Act came into operation; and what percentage of the total housing stock these figures represent in the case of each authority.
§ Mr. Rifkind[pursuant to his reply, 15 April 1981]: The number of local authority houses sold to sitting tenants between 1 October and 31 December 1980 is given in the table below for each housing authority area. These figures include voluntary sales as well as sales under part I of the Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Act: it is estimated that the number of part I sales during the period was very small. Since the Act came into force it is estimated that there have been at least 13,000 applications under the right to buy by local authority tenants.
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District Total No. of Dwellings 1980 Q4 Sales to Sitting tenants Per cent. Borders Berwickshire 2,857 4 0.14 Ettrick and Lauderdale 4,978 — — Roxburgh 6,268 — — Tweeddale 1,627 — — Central Clackmannan 9,576 — — Falkirk 33,558 — — Stirling 13,107 — — Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale 5,131 — — Nithsdale 8,705 — — Stewartry 2,600 17 0.65 Wigtown 4,777 — — Fife Dunfermline 23,306 — — Kirkcaldy 26,302 53 0.20
District Total No. of Dwellings 1980 Q4 Sales to Sitting tenants Per cent. North East Fife 8071 29 0.36 Grampian City of Aberdeen 38,855 — — Banff and Buchan 12,792 1 0.01 Gordon 6,108 — — Kincardine and Deeside 3,656 — — Moray 10,974 24 0.22 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey 1,090 — — Caithness 4,318 3 0.07 Inverness 7,143 — — Lochaber 3,492 1 0.03 Nairn 1,109 — — Ross and Cromarty 6,329 — — Skye and Lochalsh 731 1 0.14 Sutherland 1,731 11 0.64 Lothian East Lothian 16,294 — — City of Edinburgh 56,372 143 0.25 Midlothian 13,207 — — West Lothian 22,156 53 0.24 Strathclyde Argyll 8,408 — — Bearsden and Milngavie 1,825 27 1.48 Clydebank 11,829 — — Clydesdale 9,721 — — Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 4,400 — — Cumnock and Doon Valley 10,367 — — Cunninghame 22,856 2 0.01 Dumbarton 13,162 — — East Kilbride 1,625 — — Eastwood 1,999 14 0.70 City of Glasgow 174,174 — — Hamilton 23,024 14 0.06 Inverclyde 19,836 — — Kilmarnock and Loudoun 18,301 — — Kyle and Carrick 18,314 23 0.12 Monklands 28,621 2 0.01 Motherwell 39,955 — — Renfrew 39,533 — — Strathkelvin 11,055 — — Tayside Angus 14,592 — — City of dundee 40,163 10 0.02 Perth and Kinross 16,376 57 0.35 Scotland Total 893,845 497* 0.06 * These figures are based on incomplete returns.
§ Mr. Canavanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many applications to purchase council houses have been filed by sitting tenants under the Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Act with (a) local councils (b) Scottish Special Housing Association and (c) new town authorities.
§ Mr. Rifkind[pursuant to my reply,on Wednesday 15 April.]: The latest available information about applications under the right to buy is that local authorities have received about 13,000 applications: the SSHA have received about 110 applications and the New Towns about 1,130 applications. These figures do not include the substantial numbers of applications received by the SSHA and the New Towns for purchase under voluntary arrangements: I do not have reliable information about applications to local authorities for voluntary sales.