§ Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each Scottish new town the total number of houses in their ownership that were empty on the most recent convenient date; and how many of these had been empty for three months or longer.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe information is as follows:
1 2 Total number of houses available for letting but vacant at 30 September 1983 Number of houses in column 1 vacant for three months or more at 30 September 1983 Cumbernauld 38 8 East Kilbride 107 9 Glenrothes 221 62 Irvine 137 46 Livingston 186 60 TOTAL 689 185 In addition to the 689 houses unlet there were a further 963 houses vacant but not available for letting due to repairs, upgrading, modernisation, awaiting sale and so on.