§ Mrs. Bainasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many house building programmes in Scottish new towns have been approved in each of the last five years with a breakdown town by town of the number of houses involved by size and the amounts of finance involved in each case.
§ Mr. Gregor MackenzieThe details in the table below relate to the years in which the original contracts were placed except for the expenditure figures which reflect the total approved costs to date.
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Number of Contracts Placed Apartment sizes Total number of houses Total expenditure 2 3 4 5 6 1974— £ East Kilbride … — — — — — — — — Glenrothes … 2 20 — 66 32 — 118 1,028,522 Cumbernauld … 1 20 91 7 28 48 191 2,094,783 Livingston … 5 35 98 465 119 28 745 7,438,558 Irvine … 3 29 24 391 173 65 682 8,719,738 Total … 11 104 213 929 352 138 1,736 19,281,601 1975— £ East Kilbride … 3 102 86 249 64 14 515 5,575,157 Glenrothes … 2 60 148 204 11 27 450 4,234,383 Cumbernauld … 2 44 — 229 122 15 410 5,032,080 Livingston … 4 80 231 412 83 37 843 8,998,987 Irvine … 3 39 16 386 254 3 698 8,516,805 Stonehouse … 1 — 9 76 11 — 96 1,247,291 Total … 15 325 490 1,556 545 96 3,012 33,604,703