HC Deb 19 October 1989 vol 158 cc237-9W
Mr. Sillars

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table by district council showing the number of district council Scottish Homes, housing association and private sector houses; and if he will show each category as a percentage of the total stock.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The available information, as recorded on the valuation roll at 31 March 1989, is shown in the table. A breakdown of the privately owned total into housing association and others is not available. Scottish Homes did not begin operating until 1 April 1989; the figures provided relate to the Scottish Special Housing Association (SSHA).

Area Local authority SSHA New town Privately owned (including HA other than SSHA) All domestic subjects
Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number
Dumbarton 12,107 38.9 1,730 5.6 17,315 55.6 31,152
East Kilbride 1,581 5.1 13,877 44.8 15,551 50.1 31,009
Eastwood 1,745 7.9 20 0.1 20,199 92.0 21,964
Glasgow 162,199 52.9 16,061 5.2 128,093 41.0 306,353
Hamilton 20,907 52.0 1,313 3.3 18,009 44.0 40,229
Inverclyde 17,584 46.5 3,008 8.0 17,243 45.6 37,035
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 15,877 48.7 1,717 5.3 15,007 46.0 32,601
Kyle and Carrick 17,359 37.8 1,058 2.3 27,498 59.9 45,915
Monklands 27,919 72.8 1,107 2.9 9,303 24.3 38,329
Motherwell 39,305 71.2 1,833 3.3 14,097 25.5 55,235
Renfrew 35,120 43.2 6,351 7.8 39,878 49.0 81,349
Strathkelvin 10,370 33.9 662 2.2 19,586 64.0 30,618
Tayside
Angus 12,490 31.5 1,622 4.1 25,534 64.4 39,646
Dundee 37,128 47.6 3,168 4.1 37,782 48.4 75,078
Perth and Kinross 14,340 27.3 208 0.4 37,884 72.3 52,432
Island Councils
Orkney Islands 1,421 17.4 4 0.0 6,752 82.6 8,177
Shetland Islands 2,633 29.2 131 1.5 6,253 69.3 9,017
Western Isles 2,389 18.4 36 0.3 10,560 81.3 12,985

Mr. Sillars

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish details of research projects in the field of housing fully or partly funded by his Department in each of the past 10 years.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Information on social research in the housing field is contained in the "Register of Research" which is published each year by the central research unit of the Scottish Development Department and placed in the House of Commons Library. The Scottish Development Department also funds building research in the housing field, and I shall write to the hon. Member with such information as is available about this research.