§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the latest available figures for the number of second homes in Scotland in aggregate and broken down by district and island council areas, in numerical terms and as a proportion of the total housing stock.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe information requested is set out in the following table. These estimates are based on the post-enumeration survey of a 10 per cent. sample of44W properties which were vacant or from which the occupier was absent at the time of the 1981 census. No information is available on second homes which were occupied on census night.
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Known Second Homes District Authority Number* Percentage of total housing stock BORDERS 840 2.0 Berwickshire 160 2.0 Ettrick and Lauderdale 230 1.7 Roxburgh 280 1.9 Tweeddale 170 2.8 CENTRAL 320 0.3 Clackmannan 40 0.2 Falkirk 80 0.2 Stirling 190 0.7 DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY 930 1.7 Annandale and Eskdale 120 0.9 Nithsdale 150 0.7 Stewartry 430 4.4 Wigtown 230 2.0 FIFE 820 0.6 Dunfermline 50 0.1 Kirkcaldy 100 0.2 North East Fife 670 2.5 GRAMPIAN 1,410 0.8 City of Aberdeen 240 0.3 Banff and Buchan 310 1.0 Gordon 250 1.0 Kincardine and Deeside 190 1.2 Moray 410 1.3 HIGHLAND 2,200 3.0 Badenoch and Strathspey 350 8.3 Caithness 110 1.1 Inverness 190 0.9 Lochaber 340 4.6 Nairn 40 1.0 Ross and Cromarty 460 2.6 Sye and Lochalsh 360 8.1 Sutherland 360 6.0 LOTHIAN 1,150 0.4 East Lothian 490 1.6 City of Edinburgh 590 0.3 Midlothian 40 0.1 West Lothian 30 0.1 STRATHCLYDE 5,670 0.6 Argyll and Bute 2,440 8.4 Bearsden and Milngavie — — Clydebank 20 0.1 Clydesdale 160 0.8 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 10 — Cumnock and Doon Valley 20 0.1 Cunninghame 1,520 2.9 Dumbarton 160 0.6 East Kilbride 20 0.1 Eastwood 10 — City of Glasgow 490 0.2 Hamilton 40 0.1 Inverclyde 70 0.2 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 40 0.1 Kyle and Garrick 480 1.1 Monklands 50 0.1 Motherwell 10 — Renfrew 100 0.1 Strathkelvin 20 0.1 TAYSIDE 1,510 1.0 Angus 540 1.5
District Authority Number* Percentage of total housing stock City of Dundee 180 0.2 Perth and Kinross 790 1.7 ORKNEY ISLANDS AREA 140 1.9 SHETLAND ISLANDS AREA 150 1.8 WESTERN ISLES ISLANDS AREA 390 3.4 Scotland 15,520 0.8 *Figures rounded to the nearest ten.
§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate the proportions by country, including the home countries, wherein the owners of second homes in Scotland have their principal place of residence.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe information requested is set out in the following table. The estimates are based on the number of known second homes identified by a survey of a 10 per cent. sample of vacant or occupier absent properties at the time of the 1981 census. No information is available on second homes which were occupied on census night.
Principal place of residence per cent. Scotland 65 England 17 Wales — Northern Ireland — Eire — Elsewhere 4 Not known 13 TOTAL 100 As there were no known second homes identified in the sample which were owned by persons whose principal residence was in Wales, Northern Ireland or Eire, this indicates that the percentages are likely to be small, though not necessarily zero. Information is available only for the countries listed.