§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what proportion of Scotland's council housing stock was sold to tenants in 1981.
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§ Mr. RifkindThe proportion of Scotland's council housing stock sold to tenants in 1981 was about 0.7 per cent. These figures do not include applications for sale currently being processed.
§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many council houses were sold in 1981 in each housing authority in Scotland; and how many applications to buy are still outstanding.
§ Mr. RifkindThe information requested is set out in the following table. The figures for applications outstanding have been supplied by local authorities and relate to applications under the Tenants' Rights, Etc (Scotland) Act 1980. Of these applications missives have been concluded for sale in about 6,600 cases.
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Local authority Applications to sales buy outstantiing Scotland—Total 6,701 14,964 Borders Berwickshire 45 42 Ettrick and Lauderdale 68 77 Roxburgh* — 118 Tweeddale 32 53 Central Clackmannan 79 54 Falkirk 171 427 Stirling* 24 103 Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale* 12 74 Nithsdale 234 197 Stewartry 130 60 Wigtown 190 140 Fife Dunfermline 416 846 Kirkcaldy 138 506 North East Fife 252 295 Grampian City of Aberdeen 114 1,337 Banff and Buchan* 176 295 Gordon 55 268 Kincardine and Deeside 184 135 Moray 221 342 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey* 68 29 Caithness 158 119 Inverness 119 193 Lochaber 36 148 Nairn 44 44 Ross and Cromarty* 133 137 Skye and Lochalsh 38 54 Sutherland 26 27 Lothian East Lothian* 29 473 City of Edinburgh 904 509 Midlothian* 3 631 West Lothian* 93 215 Strathclyde Argyll and Bute* 37 219 Bearsden and Milngavie 79 165 Clydebank 121 Clydesdale 30 74 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 25 47 Cumnock and Doon Valley 112 77 Cunninghame 145 182 Dumbarton* — 176 East Kilbride 52 39
Local authority Applications to sales buy outstanding Eastwood 71 48 City of Glasgow* 192 2,439 Hamilton 57 235 Inverclyde* 75 147 Kilmamock and Loudoun 125 119 Kyle and Carrick 125 96 Monklands 67 188 Motherwell* 38 392 Renfrew 320 1,046 Strathkelvin 253 227 Tayside Angus 115 337 City of Dundee* 27 261 Perth and Kinross 281 55 Islands Orkney Islands 92 70 Shetland Islands 46 121 Western Isles 145 135 * These figures are based on incomplete returns.