HC Deb 12 June 1980 vol 986 cc258-61W
Mr. Cook

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report the number of dwellings acquired in each of the last five years by each island or district council in Scotland (a) for slum clearance, (b) for demolition

DWELLINGS ACQUIRED 1 APRIL 1979–31 MARCH 1980 BY LOCAL AUTHORITY
Local Authority For slum clearance Other demolition For improvement/ conversion and reletting For improvement/ conversion and resale For homeless persons Other Total
SCOTLAND (total of returns submitted) 518 493 564 30 17 288 1,910
BORDERS
Berwickshire* 1 1
Ettrick and Lauderdale 3 3
Roxburgh†
Tweeddale†
CENTRAL
Clackmannan 9 1 10
Falkirk 4 19 23
Stirling†
DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Annandale and Eskdale*
Nithsdale 205 1 8 214
Stewartry 2 2
Wigtown*
FIFE
Dunfermline* 4 4
Kirkcaldy 48 50 37 135
North East Fife* 1 1
GRAMPIAN
City of Aberdeen 27 9 46 58 140
Banff and Buchan 12 1 3 16
Gordon 2 2
Kincardine and Deeside
Moray
HIGHLAND
Badenoch and Strathspey* 1 1
Caithness 1 1
Inverness 1 1
Lochaber
Nairn 1 1
Ross and Cromarty 2 5 7
Skye and Lochalsh 2 2
Sutherland 1 2 2 5
LOTHIAN
East Lothian 5 1 14 20
City of Edinburgh* 152 1 10 14 177
Midlothian 1 131 4 136
West Lothian 2 3 2 10 17
STRATHCLYDE
Argyll and Bute* 1 4 1 6
Bearsden and Milngavie*
Clydebank 27 8 35
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth*
Cumnock and Doon Valley*

other than slum clearance, (c) for improvement or conversion and reletting, (d) for improvement or conversion and resale and (e) to accommodate homeless persons.

Mr. Rifkind

The information requested is available only for the period 1 April 1979 to 31 March 1980, and is shown in the table below :

Local Authority For slum clearance Other demolition For improvement/ conversion and reletting For improvement/ conversion and resale For homeless persons Other Total
Cunninghame†
Dumbarton* 26 1 27
East Kilbride 4 1 5
Eastwood 1 1
City of Glasgow* 213 243 34 490
Hamilton* 11 2 1 14
Inverclyde 2 13 15
Kilmarnock and Loudoun* 9 9
Kyle and Carrick
Lanark 6 1 14 5 26
Monklands 6 7 13
Motherwell 1 1 2
Renfrew 12 4 61 5 22 104
Strathkelvin*
TAYSIDE
Angus 10 32 42
City of Dundee 51 113 1 2 5 172
Perth and Kinross* 25 1 2 28
ISLANDS COUNCILS
Orkney* 1 1
Shetland 1 1
Western Isles
* Returns from this authority not complete.
† No returns submitted by this authority