§ Mr. David Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will list in the Official Report the numbers of houses below the tolerable standard in each of the housing authorities in Scotland;
(2) how many houses below the tolerable standard there are in (a) Shettleston constituency, (b) Glasgow district, (c) Strathclyde region and (d) Scotland.
§ Mr. AncramThe number of houses below the tolerable standard reported to the Scottish Development760W Department at 31 March 1986 is set out in the table. Information is collected centrally only for the areas of District and Islands Councils.
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Number of houses below the tolerable standard at 31 March 1986 Areas Number SCOTLAND 56,516 Borders 2,258 Berwickshire 940 Ettrick and Lauderdale 668 Roxburgh1 450 Tweeddale1 200 Central 1,635 Clackmannan 482 Falkirk 687 Stirling 466 Dumfries and Galloway 912 Annandale and Eskdalc 251 Nithsdale 400 Stewartry 169 Wigtown 92 Fife 3,252 Dunfermline 526 Kirkcaldy 861 North East Fife 1,865 Grampian 6,016 Aberdeen 2,018 Banff and Buchan 1,769 Gordon 461 Kincardine and Deeside 400 Moray 1,368 Highland 5,323 Badenoch and Strathspey 260 Caithness 425 Inverness 651 Lochaber 154 Nairn 48 Ross and Cromarty 2,600 Skye and Lochalsh 650 Sutherland 535 Lothian 8,214 East Lothian 939 Edinburgh 6,041 Midlothian 654 West Lothian 580 Strathclyde 21,485 Argyll and Bute 4,200 Bearsden and Milngavie 75 Clydebank 69 Clydesdale 249 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 67 Cumnock and Doon Valley 210 Cunninghame 183 Dumbarton 125 East Kilbride 120 Eastwood 38 Glasgow 11,452 Hamilton 900 Inverclyde 355 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 123 Kyle and Carrick 328 Monklands 248 Motherwell 730 Renfrew 2,000 Strathkelvin 13 Tayside 3,424 Angus 1,147 Dundee 1,470
Areas Number Perth and Kinross 807 Orkney Islands 1,155 Shetland Islands 977 Western Isles Islands 1,865 1Position at 31 March 1985—details not available for 1986.