§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the number of homeless persons in Scotland and each local authority area for(a) the most recent date for which figures are available and (b) 1979–80.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 23 October 1992]: Table 2 of the statistical bulletin HSG/1992/3, "Operation of the Homeless Legislation in Scotland 1979/80 to 1990/91: District Analyses", shows the number of applicant households, by local authority district, for the years 1979–80 and 1990–91, the latest date for which this information is available. Copies of the bulletin are available in the House Library.
Information on the number of persons in each applicant household is available only from 1990, in case returns supplied by authorities to the Department. The table gives for 1990–91, by district, the number of households for whom case returns have been received and the total number of persons in these households.
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Number of applicant households and number of persons in these households 1990–91 Area Number of case returns received for households applying as homeless in 1990–911 Number of persons SCOTLAND 32,379 67,965 Borders Berwickshire 16 55 Ettrick and Lauderdale 17 40 Roxburgh 109 230 Tweeddale 49 119 Central Clackmannan 523 1,035 Falkirk 1,300 2,756 Stirling 575 1,249 Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale 97 255 Nithsdale 600 1,197 Stewartry 97 259 Wigtown 107 273 Fife Dumfermline 311 788 Kirkcaldy 1,325 3,049 North East Fife 476 1,063 Grampian Aberdeen 1,485 3,232 Banff and Buchan 225 602 Gordon 290 785 Kincardine and Deeside 45 141 Moray 195 543 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey 19 58 Caithness 7 22 Inverness 361 899 Lochabcr 75 182 Nairn 40 104 Ross and Cromarty 107 263 Skye and Lochalsh 68 155 Sutherland 10 36 Lothian East Lothian 960 2,108 Edinburgh 2,633 5,902 Midlothian 143 344 West Lothian 532 1,054
Area Number of case returns received for households ap-plying as homeless in 1990–911 Number of persons Strathclyde Argyll and Bute 330 774 Bearsden and Milngavie 81 202 Clydebank 655 1,390 Clydesdale 446 942 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 421 1.107 Cumnock and Doon Valley 67 155 Cunninghame 445 1,038 Dumbarton 1,705 3,223 East Kilbride 521 1,064 Eastwood 11 28 Glasgow 8,565 15,054 Hamilton 329 837 Inverelyde 360 796 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 440 991 Kyle and Carrick 607 1,202 Monklands 309 574 Motherwell 988 2,070 Renfrew 957 1,965 Strathkelvin 318 835 Tayside Angus 468 1,174 Dundee 924 2,084 Perth and Kinross 432 1,234 Islands Councils Orkney Islands 19 51 Shetland Islands 131 265 Western Isles 53 112 1 The 32,379 case returns represent 94 per cent. of the 34,600 applications in 1990–91.