§ 62. Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the number of houses completed in the private and public sectors, respectively, in each of the last 10 years, indicating in each case the amount of public subsidy paid annually.
§ Mr. Ross:The numbers of houses completed in the last 10 years were as follows.
Public Sector Private Owners Total 1960 22,063 6,529 28,592 1961 20,083 7,147 27,230 1962 18,977 7,784 26,761 1963 21,595 6,622 28,217 1964 29,509 7,662 37,171 1965 27,563 7,553 35,116 1966 28,159 7,870 36,029 1967 33,960 7,498 41,458 1968 33,269 8,719 41,988 1969 34,302 8,327 42,629 The amounts of subsidy paid in respect of new public sector houses under the Housing (Scotland) Acts in the last 10 financial years were as follows.
Total paid in year£m Increment from previous year. 1960 –61 15.4 0.5 1961–62 16.1 0.7 1962–63 16.5 0.4 1963–64 17.1 0.6 1964–65 18.3 1.2 1965–66 19.5 1.2 1966–67 20.7 1.2 1967–68 22.7 2.0 1968–69 25.5 2.8 1969–70 29.7 4.2 Subsidies towards the cost of new houses built for private owners have been 123W of the order of £100,000 a year. This does not include mortgage interest subsidy or tax relief.