§ 64. Sir J. Gilmourasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many agricultural workers' cottages in each Scottish county have been improved with the help of Government grants since 1947 and which still carry an obligation that they be occupied only by genuine agricultural workers.
§ Mr. RossThe only improvement grants subject to such conditions are those given under the Hill Farming and Livestock Rearing Acts, 1946–59. The 1,574 cotttages improved with the aid of such grant are still subject to conditions which restrict their occupation to a 75W person engaged in agriculture, or a person of like economic position or in certain cases the owner.
I circulate below a table of figures by counties.
Following is the table:
HILL FARMING AND LIVESTOCK REARING ACTS, 1946 TO 1959 Farm Cottages improved with the aid of Grant Aberdeen … … … 32 Angus … … … 51 Argyll … … … 138 Ayr … … … 52 Banff … … … 24 Berwick … … … 101 Bute … … … 4 Caithness … … … 26 Clackmannan … … … 5 Dumfries … … … 134 Dunbarton … … … 8 East Lothian … … … 15 Fife … … … 1 Inverness … … … 112 Kincardine … … … 3 Kinross … … … 5 Kirkcudbright … … … 53 Lanark … … … 76 Midlothian … … … 46 Moray … … … 14 Nairn … … … 2 Orkney … … … 6 Peebles … … … 72 Perth … … … 169 Renfrew … … … 3 Ross and Cromarty … … … 57 Roxburgh … … … 237 Selkirk … … … 64 Stirling … … … 16 Sutherland … … … 29 West Lothian … … … — Wigtown … … … 16 Zetland … … … 3 1,574