§ Mr. Heddleasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the local authorities where the stock of council dwellings represents more than 30 per cent. of the total housing stock.
§ Mr. RifkindThe information requested is set out in the following table:
Local authority stock Total housing stock Percentage Berwickshire 2,848 8,296 34.3 Ettrick and Lauderdale 5,002 14,185 35.3 Roxburgh 6,309 15,476 40.8 Clackmannan 9,709 17,802 54.5 Falkirk 34,060 53,615 63.5 Stirling 13,562 29,361 46.2 Annandale and Eskdale 5,231 14,202 36.8 Nithsdale 8,674 21,758 39.9 Wigtown 4,816 12,145 39.6 Dunfermline 23,237 47,252 49.2 Kirkcaldy 26,101 58,082 44.9 City of Aberdeen 37,419 83,638 44.7 Banff and Buchan 12,714 31,641 40.2 Moray 11,041 31,927 34.6 Caithness 4,500 10,852 41.5 Inverness 7,234 21,572 33.5 Lochaber 3,535 8,023 44.1 Ross and Cromarty 6,546 18,522 35.3 East Lothian 16,391 31,055 52.8 City of Edinburgh 55,500 181,574 30.6 Midlothian 13,235 29,163 45.4 West Lothian 22,038 49,106 44.9 Clydebank 11,968 19,374 61.8 Clydesdale 9,643 20,520 47.0 Cumnock and Doon Valley 10,330 16,324 63.3 Cunninghame 23,483 52,600 44.6 Dumbarton 13,319 29,437 45.2 City of Glasgow 176,388 298,974 59.0 Hamilton 23,006 37,843 60.8 Inverclyde 19,594 36,246 54.0 Kilmarnock and Loudon 18,346 31,612 58.0 Kyle and Carrick 18,502 43,485 42.6 Monklands 28,535 36,646 77.9 Motherwell 39,786 51,957 76.6 Renfrew 38,627 76,735 50.3 Strathkelvin 11,023 28,532 38.6 Angus 14,767 38,461 38.4 City of Dundee 41,346 75,718 54.6 Perth and Kinross 16,812 49,537 33.9 Shetland Islands Area 2,677 8,449 31.7
§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the most recent available figures for housing waiting lists for each local authority in Scotland, for each new town, for the Scottish Special Housing Association and for Scotland as a whole.
§ Mr. RifkindSSHA general needs houses are normally allocated to persons on the waiting list of the local authority for the area in which the houses are situated. The506W waiting list for the association's economic expansion-houses consists of 887 category I applicants—manufacturing and oil-related industries—and 1,050 category II applicants—service and construction industries.
The new towns waiting lists distinguish between applicants from addresses in Glasgow and others, mainly incoming workers and second generation families already in the new towns. The January 1982 figures—which must be expected to include people who are also on local authority lists—are:
Glasgow Elsewhere Cumbernauld 2,860 527 East Kilbride 505 1,420 Glenrothes 49 1,366 Irvine 102 221 Livingston 24 723 3,540 4,257
§ Mr. Heddleasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the following information for each regional council in Scotland (a) expenditure per capita, (b) net debt per capita and (c) staff per thousand, each for the latest available date.
§ Mr. YoungerThe information is not available centrally in the form requested. Figures of net revenue expenditure per head for rate fund services as well as capital expenditure, debt and population statistics are published annually by the Scottish Branch of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in "Rating Review", a copy of which is available in the Library. The staffing figures requested are contained in the following table:
Manpower at September 1981 per thousand population Regional Council Full-time Part-time Borders 25.4 13.6 Central 29.2 13.6 Dumfries and Galloway 28.8 13.8 Fife 29.6 13.4 Grampian 28.2 15.5 Highland 32.0 14.6 Lothian 35.8 16.5 Strathclyde 34.4 11.5 Tayside 31.0 10.9 Notes:
- 1. The figures shown for Lothian region include staff numbers for police and fire services in the Borders region and those for Highland region staff numbers for police and fire services for the Islands areas.
- 2. The figures are not directly comparable because of differences in the services provided and of possible variations in the pattern of part-time working.
Sources:
- 1. Joint Manpower Watch Survey-September 1981 Employment Gazette.
- 2. Census 1981 Scotland (Preliminary Report).
§ Mr. Heddleasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the local authorities whose budgets for 1982–83 are likely to exceed Government guidelines.
§ Mr. YoungerThe information is not available as local authorities have not yet submitted their budget estimates for 1982–83.