§ Mr. Robin Cookasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state the projected population of the five Scottish new towns as at June 1990; and how this compares with the present population of the new towns and with the population stipulated as the trigger for winding up the development corporation, respectively.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe Registrar General does not produce projections of population for areas smaller than local authority districts. The latest available population figures for the new towns and the population stipulated as the trigger for winding up the development corporations are as set out below. As was indicated in November 1984 when the Government announced their conclusions about the winding-up of the development corporations, the dates on which the wind-up triggers are likely to be reached cannot be predicted with complete certainty although the triggers are broadly consistent with the new towns commencing wind-up at different dates in the 1990s. No development corporation is to begin the wind-up process before 1 April 1990. Because of the difficulties in predicting demographic trends the position is to be reviewed in 1989.
Population as at 30 September 1985 Trigger population East Kilbride 70,200 74,250 Cumbernauld 49,739 54,000 Glenrothes 38,000 43,000 Livingston 39,550 49,500 Irvine 57,500.[...] 63,000