HC Deb 18 June 1992 vol 209 cc632-4W
Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 9 June,Official Report, column 134, concerning the planting of native broadleaf species, what information is held centrally on non-native species planted since 1984.

Sir Hector Monro

[holding answer 16 June 1992]: Detailed information by areas and species, both for Forestry Commission planting and for private sector planting approved by the Commission for grant aid, has been held centrally on computer since May 1991. These records indicate that current broadleaved planting mainly comprises native species. Information at the same level of

Number of new dwellings completed by local authorities 1979 to 1991
Areas 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991
SCOTLAND 4,755 5,048 3,770 2,342 2,311 2,120 1,989 1,733 1,710 1,933 1,474 1,010 996
Borders
Berwickshire 14 11 29 27 16 22 17 31 29
Ettrick and Lauderdale 34 14
Roxburgh 4 12 51 45 43 8 8 4 28 18
Tweeddale 56 10 6 54 4 8 6
Central
Clackmannan 155 132 1 23 30 35—
Falkirk 23 54 66 20 78 147 56 74
Stirling 9 42 168 8 18 37 6
Dumfries and Galloway
Annandale and Eskdale 100 224 173 86 160 158 85 38 35 17 46 43 26
Nithsdale 129 78 49 18 27 6 70 80 66 74 81 33 10
Stewartry 74 51 49 42 44 41 23 34 40 10 45 33 2
Wigtown 32 77 34 120 20 86 40 20 26 5
Fife
Dunfermline 110 129 83 89 26 58 60 178 132 11
Kirkcaldy 123 44 54 63 15 113 101 91 131 172 84 34 127
North East Fife 198 127 121 41 142 70 14 48 65 17 19 5 58
Grampian
Aberdeen 430 518 372 134 47 117 178 45 93 136 109 71 62
Banff and Buchan 175 220 227 99 128 116 154 48 67 60 50 56 19
Gordon 35 4 85 199 108 89 44 171 9 183 80 72
Kincardine and Deeside 56 4 53 35 60 54 22 175 41 105 58 17 76
Moray 87 567 111 156 139 85 75 100 34 169 70 87 16
Highland
Badenoch and Strathspey 24 49 20 54 38 16 16 13 12 11 6
Caithness 54 68 40 55 20 14 23 29 24 27 10 8
Inverness 38 124 68 25 115 90 10 136 32 59 86 90 93
Lochaber 57 102 18
Nairn 20 24 22 28 28
Ross and Cromarty 89 64 96 48 31 65 8 38 46 26 27 1
Skye and Lochalsh 11 46 9 13 10 14 46 8 25 50 8 14
Sutherland 13 27 13 22 27 22 15 10 33 34 22 68 8
Lothian
East Lothian 46 18 30 45 92 25 91 65 14 66 59 10 25
Edinburgh 199 117 49 8 63 87 101 125
Midlothian 47 7 14 12 25
West Lothian 2 8 76 7
Strathclyde
Argyll and Bute 110 126 68 60 33 76 17 12 71 31 15 25
Bearsden and Milngavie 36 67 27 56 12 16 35 6 6
Clydebank 63 73 2
Clydesdale 53 32 49 18 20 18 30 24 32 18
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 35 54 3 16 8 6
Cumnock and Doon Valley 26 47 43 6 14 2 6 2
Cunninghame 102 68 90 45 85 44 54 34 55 31 24
Dumbarton 6 39 14 18 18
East Kilbride

detail in respect of private sector planting before that date is held in individual files in the commission's local offices. There is no evidence, however, that the pattern of broadleaved planting as between native and non-native species has differed over the past few years.

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