§ Mr. IngramTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give, by constituency, the number of public sector houses sold and repossessed in each of the years since 1980.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 26 October 1987]: Information on public sector house sales is not collected centrally by parliamentary constituency. The available figures for the years 1980 to 1986 are set out in the table. Statistics on repossessions of houses are not collected centrally.
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Sales of Public Sector houses by Authority—Scotland 1980–86 Area Year 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 Scotland 6,482 11,170 15,106 18,315 17,239 15,630 14,152 Local authorities 2,936 7,336 11,811 13,006 12,832 11,594 10,426 Borders 28 219 274 358 468 330 211 Berwickshire 27 45 44 65 93 52 75 Ettrick and Lauderdale I 68 80 140 193 144 100 Roxburgh 0 74 101 97 142 107 21 Tweedale 0 32 49 56 40 27 15 Central 173 275 655 1,095 1,159 826 685 Clackmannan 83 79 109 169 121 102 95 Falkirk 35 170 490 748 698 511 346 Stirling 55 26 56 178 340 313 244 Dumfries and Galloway 58 718 513 463 381 420 452 Annandale and Eskdale 0 164 171 103 96 102 99 Nithsdale 0 234 180 170 143 163 215 Stewartry 58 130 81 49 46 54 59 Wigtown 0 190 81 141 96 101 79 Fife 614 804 1,377 1,801 1,727 1,247 1,026 Dunfermline 0 414 612 834 707 385 330 Kirkcaldy 508 138 463 583 748 638 489 North East Fife 106 252 302 384 272 224 207 Grampian 166 784 1,126 1,738 1,733 1,509 1,103 Aberdeen 44 114 492 769 698 602 328 Banff and Buchan 34 210 167 322 399 357 301 Gordon 0 55 237 274 276 150 144 Kincardine and Deeside 0 184 73 90 71 96 61 Moray 88 221 157 283 289 304 269 Highland 37 662 565 518 367 408 389 Badenoch and Strathspey 5 68 29 28 21 16 44 Caithness 5 158 113 105 48 83 59 Inverness 0 119 232 176 103 137 97 Lochaber 1 36 54 47 52 52 65 Nairn 0 44 27 31 35 29 16 Ross and Cromarty 0 156 70 86 77 60 78 Skye and Lochalsh 1 38 6 10 18 14 25 Sutherland 25 43 34 35 13 17 5 Lothian 543 1,093 1,772 1,753 2,854 1,614 1,362 East Lothian 0 57 387 341 436 279 248 Edinburgh 347 904 801 733 1,727 850 715 Midlothian 2 16 411 421 437 243 177 West Lothian 194 116 173 258 254 242 222 Strathclyde 1,017 2,013 4,235 4,021 3,008 4,150 4,233 Argyl and Bute 0 69 105 126 141 142 130 Bearsden and Milngavie 32 79 23 53 49 25 35 Clydebank 0 0 86 91 83 72 138 Clydesdale 6 30 22 40 50 88 55 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 21 26 23 36 38 49 73 Cumnock and Doon Valley 0 111 38 67 69 52 98 Cunninghame 369 122 140 172 217 191 324 Dumbarton 0 0 124 62 113 76 121 East Kilbride 0 52 31 22 23 33 28 Eastwood 71 71 22 42 26 35 48 Glasgow 143 336 1,836 1,556 735 1,427 1,039 Hamilton 14 57 192 237 127 169 249 Inverclyde 63 94 99 182 104 316 225 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 0 124 76 169 191 199 231 Kyle and Carrick 232 125 148 258 310 355 400 Monklands 16 67 122 101 71 122 190 Motherwell 0 109 254 172 188 213 290 Renfrew 50 288 721 476 385 411 416 Strathkelvin 0 253 173 159 88 175 143 Tayside 299 474 1,144 1,083 1,053 992 868 Angus 38 115 388 305 378 324 259 Dundee 52 78 263 222 323 411 366 Perth and Kinross 209 281 493 556 352 257 243 Orkney Islands 0 113 21 20 7 22 22 380W
Area Year 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 Shetland Islands 0 46 65 70 26 28 28 Western Isles 1 135 64 86 49 48 47 Newtowns 2,129 1,845 1,362 2,390 1,963 1,573 1,653 Cumbernauld 598 565 203 419 448 311 388 East Kilbride 1,003 832 501 874 614 575 467 Glenrothes 352 279 379 635 508 378 349 Irvine 19 21 55 93 98 84 165 Livingston 157 148 224 369 295 225 284 SSHA 1,417 1,989 1,933 2,919 2,444 2,463 2,073