HC Deb 06 February 1931 vol 247 cc2260-1W
Duchess of ATHOLL

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the number of houses improved with the assistance of grant under the Rural Housing Act in each county of Scotland since the Act came into operation?

Mr. W. ADAMSON

Up to 31st December, 1930, schemes under the Housing (Rural Workers) Act, 1926, for the improvement of 6,960 houses had been approved. The following statement shows the number of houses in each county in Scotland in which at 31st December, 1930, works of improvement under that Act had been completed:

County of Number of Houses on which work had been completed.
Aberdeen … 597
Angus … 134
Argyll … 36
Ayr … 76
Banff … 44
Berwick … 323
Bute … None
Caithness … 59
Clackmannan … 37
Dumfries … 93
Dumbarton … 78
East Lothian … 676
Fife … 201
Inverness … 79
Kincardine … 66
Kinross … 10
Kirkcudbright … 139
Lanark … 148
Midlothian … 61
Moray … 232
Nairn … 11
Orkney … No scheme
Peebles … 53
Perth … 356
Renfrew … None
Ross and Cromarty … 364
Roxburgh … 289
Selkirk … 125
Stirling … 85
Sutherland … None
West Lothian … 96
Wigtown … 25
Zetland … None
Total … 4,493

Note.—The figures given in this statement do not include houses situated in burghs. The number of such houses improved with assistance under the Act of 1926 is 86.