§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in the Official Report the number of sheltered housing places available in Scotland, giving a breakdown by responsible district authorities.
§ Mr. RifkindInformation on the number of sheltered houses provided by each district council, and the number of bed spaces, is given in the table below.
A further 2,157 sheltered houses — 3,043 bed spaces—located in various districts are provided by the Scottish Special Housing Association, new town development corporations and housing associations. Details will be published shortly in Scottish Housing Statistics.
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Sheltered Housing* by Local Authority at 31 March 1980 Local Authority No. of sheltered dwellings No. of Bed spaces † Scotland‡ 6,407 10,971 Borders 228 326 Berwickshire 42 58 Ettrick and Lauderdale 91 116 Roxburgh‡ 53 68 Tweeddale‡ 42 84 Central 392 759 Clackmannan 56 98 Falkirk‡ 147 283 Stirling 189 378 Dumfries and Galloway 80 144 Annandale and Eskdale 28 56 Nithsdale 22 28 Stewartry 25 50 Wigtown 5 10 Fife 352 549 Dunfermline 171 245 Kirkcaldy 105 160 North East Fife 76 144 Grampian 905 1,541 City of Aberdeen 576 991 Banff and Buchan 108 162 Gordon 107 186 Kincardine and Deeside 48 78 Moray 66 124 Highland 268 516 Badenoch and Strathspey 17 34 Caithness 71 142 Inverness 68 136 Lochaber‡ 6 12 Nairn 22 34 Ross and Cromarty 76 150 Skye and Lochalsh — — Sutherland 8 8 Lothian 287 531 East Lothian 34 68 City of Edinburgh 210 400 Midlothian 22 35 West Lothian 21 28 Strathclyde 2,461 4,282 Argyll 39 51 Bearsden and Milngavie 118 224 Clydebank 40 84 Clydesdale 99 184 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 140 280 Cumnock and Doon Valley 60 114 Cunninghame 233 357 Dumbarton 76 125 East Kilbride 24 48 Eastwood 60 77 City of Glasgow 449 845 Hamilton 156 316 Inverclyde 151 252 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 123 133 Kyle and Carrick 205 353 Monklands 111 193 Motherwell 205 410 Renfrew 164 184 Strathkelvin 20 40 Tayside 1,178 1,846 Angus 213 398 City of Dundee 875 1,270 Perth and Kinross 90 178 Islands Councils
Local Authority No. of sheltered dwellings No. of Bed spaces† Orkney Islands 10 20 Shetland Islands 192 353 Western 54 104 * Including sheltered wheelchair housing.
†The term "bed spaces" means the maximum number of persons for whom the dwelling is designed.
‡ Where 1980 figures are not available, the most recent information has been used.