HC Deb 13 November 1987 vol 122 cc376-80W
Mr. Ingram

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give, by constituency, the number of public sector houses sold and repossessed in each of the years since 1980.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

[holding answer 26 October 1987]: Information on public sector house sales is not collected centrally by parliamentary constituency. The available figures for the years 1980 to 1986 are set out in the table. Statistics on repossessions of houses are not collected centrally.

Sales of Public Sector houses by Authority—Scotland 1980–86
Area Year
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Scotland 6,482 11,170 15,106 18,315 17,239 15,630 14,152
Local authorities 2,936 7,336 11,811 13,006 12,832 11,594 10,426
Borders 28 219 274 358 468 330 211
Berwickshire 27 45 44 65 93 52 75
Ettrick and Lauderdale I 68 80 140 193 144 100
Roxburgh 0 74 101 97 142 107 21
Tweedale 0 32 49 56 40 27 15
Central 173 275 655 1,095 1,159 826 685
Clackmannan 83 79 109 169 121 102 95
Falkirk 35 170 490 748 698 511 346
Stirling 55 26 56 178 340 313 244
Dumfries and Galloway 58 718 513 463 381 420 452
Annandale and Eskdale 0 164 171 103 96 102 99
Nithsdale 0 234 180 170 143 163 215
Stewartry 58 130 81 49 46 54 59
Wigtown 0 190 81 141 96 101 79
Fife 614 804 1,377 1,801 1,727 1,247 1,026
Dunfermline 0 414 612 834 707 385 330
Kirkcaldy 508 138 463 583 748 638 489
North East Fife 106 252 302 384 272 224 207
Grampian 166 784 1,126 1,738 1,733 1,509 1,103
Aberdeen 44 114 492 769 698 602 328
Banff and Buchan 34 210 167 322 399 357 301
Gordon 0 55 237 274 276 150 144
Kincardine and Deeside 0 184 73 90 71 96 61
Moray 88 221 157 283 289 304 269
Highland 37 662 565 518 367 408 389
Badenoch and Strathspey 5 68 29 28 21 16 44
Caithness 5 158 113 105 48 83 59
Inverness 0 119 232 176 103 137 97
Lochaber 1 36 54 47 52 52 65
Nairn 0 44 27 31 35 29 16
Ross and Cromarty 0 156 70 86 77 60 78
Skye and Lochalsh 1 38 6 10 18 14 25
Sutherland 25 43 34 35 13 17 5
Lothian 543 1,093 1,772 1,753 2,854 1,614 1,362
East Lothian 0 57 387 341 436 279 248
Edinburgh 347 904 801 733 1,727 850 715
Midlothian 2 16 411 421 437 243 177
West Lothian 194 116 173 258 254 242 222
Strathclyde 1,017 2,013 4,235 4,021 3,008 4,150 4,233
Argyl and Bute 0 69 105 126 141 142 130
Bearsden and Milngavie 32 79 23 53 49 25 35
Clydebank 0 0 86 91 83 72 138
Clydesdale 6 30 22 40 50 88 55
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 21 26 23 36 38 49 73
Cumnock and Doon Valley 0 111 38 67 69 52 98
Cunninghame 369 122 140 172 217 191 324
Dumbarton 0 0 124 62 113 76 121
East Kilbride 0 52 31 22 23 33 28
Eastwood 71 71 22 42 26 35 48
Glasgow 143 336 1,836 1,556 735 1,427 1,039
Hamilton 14 57 192 237 127 169 249
Inverclyde 63 94 99 182 104 316 225
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 0 124 76 169 191 199 231
Kyle and Carrick 232 125 148 258 310 355 400
Monklands 16 67 122 101 71 122 190
Motherwell 0 109 254 172 188 213 290
Renfrew 50 288 721 476 385 411 416
Strathkelvin 0 253 173 159 88 175 143
Tayside 299 474 1,144 1,083 1,053 992 868
Angus 38 115 388 305 378 324 259
Dundee 52 78 263 222 323 411 366
Perth and Kinross 209 281 493 556 352 257 243
Orkney Islands 0 113 21 20 7 22 22

Area Year
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Shetland Islands 0 46 65 70 26 28 28
Western Isles 1 135 64 86 49 48 47
Newtowns 2,129 1,845 1,362 2,390 1,963 1,573 1,653
Cumbernauld 598 565 203 419 448 311 388
East Kilbride 1,003 832 501 874 614 575 467
Glenrothes 352 279 379 635 508 378 349
Irvine 19 21 55 93 98 84 165
Livingston 157 148 224 369 295 225 284
SSHA 1,417 1,989 1,933 2,919 2,444 2,463 2,073