HC Deb 18 June 1980 vol 986 cc528-9W
Mr. Ernie Ross

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many sheltered houses are provided by each district council in Scotland.

Mr. Rifkind

The information is in the table below. A further 1,756 sheltered houses had at the same date been provided by the Scottish Special Housing Association, new town development corporations and housing associations. Details will be published shortly in Scottish Housing Statistics.

SHELTERED HOUSING BY LOCAL AUTHORITY AT 31 MARCH 1979
Number of
Local Authority Sheltered dwellings*
SCOTLAND† 5,766
Borders 228
Berwickshire 42
Ettrick and Lauderdale 91
Roxburgh 53
Tweeddalet† 42
Central 285
Clackmannan 56
Falkirk† 147
Stirling† 82
Dumfries and Galloway 63
Annandale and Eskdale† 16
Nithsdale 22
Stewartry 25
Wigtown
Fife 766
Dunfermline 171
Kirkcaldy 553
North East Fife† 42
Grampian 827
Aberdeen City 523
Banff and Buchan 108
Gordon 82
Kincardine and Deeside 48
Moray 66
Highland 225
Badenoch and Strathspey 17
Caithness 69
Inverness 28
Lochaber 6
Nairn 22
Ross and Cromarty 75
Skye and Lochalsh
Sutherland 8
Lothian 147
East Lothian 34
Edinburgh City 92
Midlothian
West Lothian 21
Strathclyde 2,161
Argyll and Bute 18
Bearsden and Milngavie 94
Clydebank 40
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 139
Cumnock and Doon Valle 60
Cunninghame 191
Dumbarton 40
East Kilbride 145
Eastwood 60
Glasgow City 327
Hamilton 153
Inverclyde 100
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 123
Kyle and Carrick 205
Lanark 79
Monklands 79
Motherwell 154
Renfrew 134
Strathkelvin 20
Tayside 875
Angus 187
Dundee City 598
Perth and Kinross 90
Islands Councils 189
Orkney Islands 10
Shetland Islands 173
Western Isles† 6
*Including sheltered wheelchair housing.
†Where current information is not available figures from 1976 Survey have been used.