§ Mr. John Robertsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many
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§ Mr. William RossThe estimates which can be made from available information are given in the following table:
telephones have been provided by local authorities to disabled and chronically sick persons in Scotland; and if he will give a list of the local authorities and the numbers of telephones provided by each.
§ Mr. William Ross324 people had been assisted financially by local authorities in Scotland to obtain or retain a telephone up to 31st December 1972, the latest date for which complete information is available. The numbers assisted by each local authority up to that date are given below:
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Counties Persons Assisted Aberdeen and Kincardine 7 Angus 3 Argyll 2 Ayr 10 Banff 2 Berwick — Bute — Caithness — Clackmannan — Dumfries — Dunbarton 12 Fife 4 Inverness 1 Kirkcudbright 1 Lanark 40 Midlothian, East Lothian and Peebles 8 Moray and Nairn 1 Orkney — Perth and Kinross 2 Renfrew 3 Ross and Cromarty 2 Roxburgh — Selkirk 1
Stirling — Sutherland 2 West Lothian — Wigtown — Zetland 10
Burghs Persons Assisted Aberdeen 18 Airdrie — Arbroath — Ayr — Clydebank 8 Coatbridge 4 Dumbarton 1 Dumfries — Dundee 20 Dunfermline 1 Edinburgh 124 East Kilbride 17 Falkirk — Glasgow — Greenock and Port Glasgow 10 Hamilton 2 Inverness — Kilmarnock — Kirkcaldy 1 Motherwell and Wishaw — Paisley 3 Perth 4 Rutherglen — Stirling —