§ Mr. Welshasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give figures showing the number and percentage of council houses being modernised, repaired or converted in each year over the past five years.
§ Mr. William RossInformation is not available in the form requested, but the following table shows the numbers of local authority houses in respect of which improvement proposals, including associated repair work and conversions, were approved, and those numbers as a percentage of all local authority houses.
LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSES IN SCOTLAND Number of houses for which improvement proposals approved As percentage of all houses 1971 … 24,859 3.1 1972 … 27,375 3.4 1973 … 65,655 8.0 1974 … 37,901 8.0 1975 … 20,036* 2.3* * Provisional: returns for local authorities incomplete.