§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate how many privately-owned dwellings suitable for letting are not available for letting.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe available information on unoccupied private sector dwellings was published in Scottish Development Department statistical bulletin HSIU No. 1 "Unoccupied Dwellings: A survey following the 1981 Census", which is available in the Library.
SHAPE £ thousand Category A Category B Category C 1981–82 1985–86 at 1981–82 prices 1981–82 1985–86 at 1981–82 prices 1981–82 1985–86 at 1981–82 prices Argyll and Clyde 33,961 34,212 5,413 4,915 27,247 27,532 Ayr and Arran 16,386 20,168 3,800 4,630 21,351 27,178 Borders 6,748 7,152 338 336 6,355 6,560 Dumfries and Galloway 13,219 14,833 1,592 1,319 9,084 8,875 Fife 19,990 25,407 3,900 3,713 20,682 19,143 Forth Valley 22,396 24,424 3,743 2,726 17,485 19,238 Grampian 33,870 38,416 5,935 6,113 41,728 42,484 Greater Glasgow 99,396 105,092 15,378 14,256 145,134 142,330 Highland 16,079 17,096 2,323 2,128 16,011 17,213 Lanarkshire 30,621 33,016 6,022 5,878 38,256 40,713 Lothian 61,305 62,077 8,234 8,764 88,935 84,298 Orkney 1,183 1,251 140 141 1,093 1,160 Shetland 1,382 1,618 151 154 1,481 1,512 Tayside 37,201 37,949 5,164 3,908 49,449 47,051 Western Isles 2,011 2,202 384 445 2,130 2,528 Scotland 395,748 424,912 62,517 59,427 486,421 487,813