HC Deb 02 December 1964 vol 703 cc74-5W
64. Sir J. Gilmour

asked 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. Ross

The 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 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