HC Deb 23 January 1987 vol 108 cc759-61W
Mr. David Marshall

asked 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. Ancram

The number of houses below the tolerable standard reported to the Scottish Development Department at 31 March 1986 is set out in the table. Information is collected centrally only for the areas of District and Islands Councils.

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.

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