§ Lord James Douglas-Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many council houses in Scotland have been sold to date to sitting tenants, giving the total and also a breakdown housing authority by housing authority.
§ Mr. Allan Stewart:The information requested is set out in the following table, which covers the period since the introduction of the Tenants' Rights Etc. (Scotland) Act 1980, ie from 1 October 1980 to 30 June 1982.
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Sales to Sitting Tenants 1 October 1980 – 30 June 1982 Housing Authority Number of Sales Borders Berwickshire 65 Ettrick and Lauderdale 99 Roxburgh 139 Tweeddale 68 Central Clackmannan 105 Falkirk* 261 Stirling 157 Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale* 12 Nithsdale 297 Stewarty 193 Wigtown 224 Fife Dunfermline 760 Kirkcaldy 375
Housing Authority Number of Sales North East Fife 425 Grampian City of Aberdeen 292 Banff and Buchan 258 Gordon 193 Kincardine and Deeside 211 Moray 336 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey 87 Caithness 219 Inverness 275 Lochaber 67 Nairn 62 Ross and Cromarty 189 Skye and Lochalsh 42 Sutherland* 69 Lothian East Lothian* 82 City of Edinburgh 1,492 Midlothian 185 West Lothian 273 Stratclyde Argyll and Bute 126 Bearsden and Milngavie 120 Clydebank 6 Clydesdale 36 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 38 Cumnock and Doon Valley 122 Cunninghame 212 Dumbarton 76 East Kilbride 66 Eastwood 94 City of Glasgow 408 Hamilton 130 Inverclyde 137 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 153 Kyle and Carrick 191 Monklands 128 Motherwell 173 Renfrew 541 Strathkelvin 334 Tayside Angus 376 City of Dundee* 138 Perth and Kinross 525 Islands Areas Orkney 126 Shetland 86 Western Isles 206 LOCAL AUTHORITY TOTAL* 12,060 SSHA* 3,511 NEW TOWNS Cumbernauld* 664 East Kilbride* 1,212 Glenrothes 394 Irvine 24 Livingston 292 NEW TOWNS TOTAL* 2,586 TOTAL PUBLIC SECTOR* 18,157 *These figures are based on incomplete returns.