§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his estimate 637W of the total number of hotels and boarding houses in Scotland ; how many of these meet acceptable standards of insulation ; and if it is his intention to provide specific insulation grants for hotels and boarding houses.
§ Mr. YoungerIt is estimated that the number of hotels and guest houses in Scotland is in the region of 3,200 and 800, respectively. The number which meet acceptable insulation standards is not known, but hotels and boarding houses and extensions built since 1964 comply with the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations current at the time. The relevant thermal insulation standards were
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LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSE COMPLETIONS Local authority First quarter Second quarter 1979 Third quarter Fourth quarter Total 1980 First quarter SCOTLAND … 949 1,440 1,069 1,343 4,801 Not known BORDERS … 36 — 5 6 48 Not known Berwickshire … 3 — 5 6 14 9 Ettrick and Lauderdale … 33 — — — 34 — Roxburgh … — — — — — 4 Tweedale … — — — — — Not known CENTRAL … 14 47 53 50 164 Not known Clackmannan … 14 38 53 50 155 62 Falkirk … — — — — — — Stirling … — 9 — — 9 — DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY … 90 66 77 102 335 Not known Annandale and Eskdale … 55 10 9 26 100 Not known Nithsdale … 27 20 46 36 129 20 Stewartry … 8 20 18 28 74 17 Wigtown … — 16 4 12 32 12 FIFE … 73 185 119 102 479 Not known Dunfermline … 19 23 44 24 110 Not known Kirkcaldy … 35 25 33 30 123 14 North East Fife … 19 137 42 48 246 Not known GRAMPIAN … 158 169 134 322 783 208 City of Aberdeen … 90 125 15 200 430 23 Banff and Buchan … 42 30 81 22 175 60 Gordon … 14 6 — 15 35 — Kincardine and Deeside … 12 8 12 24 56 — Moray … — — 26 61 87 125 HIGHLAND … 24 82 110 70 286 76 Badenoch and Strathspey … — 24 — — 24 — Caithness … 10 19 10 15 54 18 Inverness … — — — 38 38 38 Lochaber … 14 9 34 — 57 12 Nairn … — — — — — — Ross and Cromarty … — 30 59 — 89 — Skye and Lochalsh … — — — 11 11 8 Sutherland … — — 7 6 13 — LOTHIAN … 76 137 32 — 245 — East Lothian … 31 12 3 — 46 — City of Edinburgh … 45 125 29 — 199 — Midlothian … — — — — — — West Lothian … — — — — — — raised in June 1979. Grants were available to hotels under the two-year energy conservation scheme under section 8 of the Industry Act, which ended on 30 June this year.