§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if, in official references to the numbers of council house sales, he will state at what point the house is deemed to be sold, whether at the conclusion of missives, when both parties have a binding agreement to the sale taking place, or at the settlement of the transaction when the purchase price and title deeds exchange hands.
§ Mr. Allan StewartReferences to sales are, in general, references to completed transactions. Any references to the number of missives concluded is normally identified as such.
§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if, following the reply to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton) on 25 October, Official Report, c. 274, regarding council house sales, he will express these figures as percentages of the housing stock of these authorities.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe information requested is set out in the following table.
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1 October 1980 to 30 June 1982 Housing Authority Sales to Sitting Tenants as percentage of Housing Stock Borders Berwickshire 2.28 Etterick and Lauderdale 2.03 Roxburgh 2.22 Tweeddale 4.18 Central Clackmannan 1.10 Falkirk* 0.78 Stirling 1.20 Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale* 1.13 Nithsdale 3.41 Stewartry 7.42 Wigtown 4.69 Fife Dunfermline 3.26 Kirkcaldy 1.43 North East Fife 5.27 Grampian City of Aberdeen 0.75 Banff and Buchan 2.02 Gordon 3.16 Kincardine and Deeside 5.77 Moray 3.06 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey 7.98 Caithness 5.07 Inverness 3.85 Lochaber 1.92 Nairn 5.59 Ross and Cromarty 2.99 Skye and Lochalsh 5.75 Sutherland 4.45 Lothian East Lothian 1.23 City of Edinburgh 2.65 Midlothian 1.40 West Lothian 1.23 Strathclyde Argyll and Bute 1.50 Bearsden and Milngavie 6.58 Clydebank 0.05 Clydesdale 0.37 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 0.86
Housing Authority Sales to Sitting Tenants as percentage of Housing Stock Cumnock and Doon Valley 1.18 Cunninghame 0.93 Dumbarton 0.58 East Kilbride 4.06 Eastwood 4.70 City of Glasgow 0.23 Hamilton 0.56 Inverclyde 0.69 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 0.84 Kyle and Carrick 1.04 Monklands 0.45 Motberwell 0.43 Renfrew 1.37 Strathkelvin 3.02 Tayside Angus 2.58 City of Dundee* 0.34 Perth and Kinross 3.21 Orkney Islands Area 8.33 Shetland Islands Area 3.43 Western Isles Islands Area 8.33 L A Total 1.37 SSHA 3.77 New Towns Cumbernauld 7.17 East Kilbride 6.74 Glenrothes 4.30 Irvine 0.54 Livingston 2.71 N.T. Total 5.06 TOTAL PUBLIC SECTOR 1.77 * These figures are based on incomplete returns.