§ Major Thornton-Kemsleyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland to state by counties the allocation of the 3,000 new houses for Scottish agricultural workers?
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1901. 1911. 1921. 1931 Industry … (a) 17,015,230 15,725,373 17,523,982 Pasture and Agriculture … 90,893,575 105,335,379 104,943,712 109,730,788 including Care of Animals … 2,545,857 (b) 3,616,595 2,909,281 3,972,156 (a) Not separately recorded. (b) The figures for 1901 relate to "Provision and care of Animals." They are not precisely comparable with those of the later years, which relate to "Raising of Farm Stock and of small Animals." No later figures are available.
Mr. JohnstonAs already announced, the new Scottish housing programme will comprise 1,000 houses, 800 of these houses will be built in industrial areas on Clydeside and the remaining 200 in the rural areas in which houses are urgently required in the interests of food production. It has been provisionally decided to allocate twenty of the rural houses to each of the counties of Aberdeen, Ayr, Dumfries, Lanark, Perth, Wigtown and Kirkcudbright. The allocation of the balance of 60 houses is still under consideration.