HC Deb 20 June 1978 vol 952 cc179-81W
Mr. MacCormick

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each district council area the numbers and percentages of houses falling below the minimum tolerable standard.

Mr. Hugh D. Brown

Estimates provided by local authorities as at 31st December 1977 were as follows:

Local Authority Number existing at 31st December 1977 Percentage
Highland Region
Caithness 477 4.6
Sutherland 449 7.3
Ross and Cromarty 2,229 13.0
Skye and Lochalsh 1,113 24.4
Lochaber 420 5.6
Inverness 1,499 7.6
Badenoch and Strathspey 84 2.0
Nairn 94 2.5
Grampian Region
Moray 2,450 8.3
Banff and Buchan 2,925 10.1
Gordon 1,052 5.0
City of Aberdeen 7,155 9.1
Kincardine and Deeside 677 4.5
Tayside Region
Angus 3,203 8.6
City of Dundee 11,394 15.3
Perth and Kinross 3,049 6.4
Fife Region
Kirkcaldy 3,296 6.0
North East Fife 2,584 10.0
Dunfermline 914 2.0
Lothian Region
West Lothian 1,133 2.6
City of Edinburgh 17,200 9.7
Midlothian 561 2.0
East Lothian 1,601 5.3

Local Authority Number existing at 31st December 1977 Percentage
Central Region
Clackmannan 749 4.3
Stirling 1,189 4.3
Falkirk 2,473 4.8
Borders Region
Tweeddale 246 4.0
Ettrick and Lauderdale 994 7.2
Roxburgh 675 4.5
Berwickshire 800 9.7
Strathclyde Region
Argyll and Bute 6,000 21.0
Dumbarton 322 1.1
City of Glasgow 51,000 16.6
Clydebank 613 3.1
Bearsden and Milngavie 100 0.8
Strathkelvin 281 1.1
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 104 0.6
Monklands 867 2.4
Motherwell 1,646 3.2
Hamilton 992 2.7
East Kilbride 131 0.5
Eastwood 95 0.5
Lanark 427 2.2
Renfrew 2,803 3.8
Inverclyde 799 2.2
Cunninghame 1,732 3.5
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 844 2.7
Kyle and Carrick 481 1.1
Cumnock and Doon Valley 153 1.0
Dumfries and Galloway Region
Wigtown 232 2.0
Stewartry 387 4.1
Nithsdale 491 2.3
Annandale and Eskdale 694 5.2
Orkney Islands Area 1,390 19.2
Shetland Islands Area 1,342 18.3
Western Isles Islands Area 3,267 29.1
Grand Total for Scotland 149,878 7.8

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