HC Deb 08 July 1998 vol 315 cc526-8W
Mrs. Ewing

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many mortgage repossession orders there were to each court district in each of the months of April, May and June 1997 and the month of April 1998. [49208]

Mr. Dewar

Figures in relation to repossession of property by mortgage lenders have been collected by the courts since a revised system of collecting Civil Judicial Statistics was instituted on 1 January 1994. The figures for the months of April, May and June 1997 and the month of April 1998 are shown in the table.

Mortgage Lender
Court April 1997 May 1997 June 1997 April 1998
Aberdeen 1 28 8 15
Airdrie 16 18 12 3
Alloa 2 0 9 5
Arbroath 0 3 8 10
Ayr 7 12 12 18
Banff 0 0 1 2
Campbeltown 0 0 2 2
Cupar 6 4 1 3
Dingwall 1 0 0 2
Dornoch 0 0 1 0
Dumbarton 10 5 17 19
Dumfries 4 1 1 4
Dundee 15 16 10 12
Dunfermline 0 15 17 11
Dunoon 2 1 2 1
Duns 0 0 2 0
Edinburgh 55 46 39 42
Elgin 4 1 1 4
Falkirk 5 12 10 9
Forfar 3 2 1 4
Fort William 0 0 0 1
Glasgow 87 56 109 63
Greenock 2 0 5 5
Haddington 7 4 5 6

Mortgage Lender
Court April 1997 May 1997 June 1997 April 1998
Hamilton 29 23 0 0
Inverness 13 6 9 10
Jedburgh 0 0 0 6
Kilmarnock 17 3 0 10
Kirkcaldy 20 17 17 23
Kirkcudbright 0 1 2 0
Kirkwall 0 0 0 0
Lanark 7 4 4 6
Lerwick 0 0 0 0
Linlithgow 18 11 13 25
Lochmaddy 0 0 0 0
Oban 1 2 0 3
Paisley 24 0 25 0
Peebles 2 0 0 1
Perth 10 5 4 10
Peterhead 2 5 8 4
Portree 0 0 0 0
Rothesay 2 0 0 3
Selkirk 5 4 1 3
Stirling 5 3 6 6
Stonehaven 4 5 3 5
Stornoway 3 0 1 2
Stranraer 0 3 2 3
Tain 2 2 0 0
Wick 0 0 0 0
Grand Total 391 318 368 361

Knee joint replacement
Mean wait (days)
Area of residence 31 March 1992 31 March 1993 31 March 1994 31 March 1995 31 March 1996 31 March 1997 31 March 19981
Argyll and Clyde 160 163 152 148 129 151 189
Ayrshire and Arran 125 124 124 118 105 102 109
Borders 85 61 76 78 90 97 90
Dumfries and Galloway 230 205 290 276 239 217 204
Fife 163 150 133 155 106 87 131
Forth Valley 143 207 233 227 251 237 238
Grampian 73 102 97 82 88 106 94
Greater Glasgow 133 109 162 172 173 193 216
Highland 227 193 206 182 211 206 182
Lanarkshire 117 117 140 179 170 158 125
Lothian 159 177 141 173 174 168 145
Orkney 41 35 38 39 48 34 74
Shetland 33 45 86 118 132 109 109
Tayside 138 136 110 109 102 129 141
Western Isles 234 263 145 136 121 78 75
Scotland 146 145 146 152 145 149 155

Hip joint replacement
Mean wait (days)
Area of residence 31 March 1992 31 March 1993 31 March 1994 31 March 1995 31 March 1996 31 March 1997 31 March 19981
Argyll and Clyde 132 121 127 123 120 141 144
Ayrshire and Arran 105 130 97 96 93 83 113
Borders 68 63 68 76 82 85 86
Dumfries and Galloway 196 225 218 233 184 153 136
Fife 131 114 131 138 107 83 115
Forth Valley 105 158 176 193 186 169 175
Grampian 81 95 90 81 81 90 82
Greater Glasgow 127 127 145 149 158 176 184
Highland 185 144 159 153 201 191 182
Lanarkshire 104 125 140 146 139 114 116
Lothian 130 150 128 159 154 143 133
Orkney 40 39 24 36 44 48 55
Shetland 24 48 100 100 77 108 92
Tayside 112 107 94 111 99 108 122

Mrs. Ewing

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many mortgage repossession orders there were to each court district in each quarter of 1992–93. [49211]

Mr. Dewar

Information as to orders for mortgage repossession for each court district in 1992 and 1993 are included in the returns relating to all actions involving land or heritable estate which are supplied to the courts for the purposes of the Judicial Statistics (Scotland) Act 1869 and cannot be identified separately.