§ Mr. Hendersonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will take steps to collect further information about the condition of the housing stock in Scotland.
§ Mr. YoungerPresent arrangements for collecting information on the condition of the public sector housing stock are considered to be entirely adequate, but less information is available centrally on the condition of private sector stock and in particular on that of the interwar period. I have therefore decided to initiate a survey of the condition of the inter-war private sector housing stock in certain of the main urban districts including the four cities. The survey, covering a sample of 1,000 houses, will take place in the autumn of 1983 and the results will be available by the end of 1984.
88Wchange in the numbers employed per standard industrial classification order in both Dundee and Scotland between May 1979 and the latest available date.
§ Mr. Alexander Fletcher[pursuant to his reply, 24 March 1983, c. 454]: The information for Dundee is not available in the detail requested. The latest available estimates for industrial groups in the manufacturing sector in Dundee are set out in the following table, along with comparable figures for Scotland.