§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many factories and industrial sites are standing empty or unused in each district and islands area in Scotland.
§ Mr. Lang[holding answer 2 November]:The available information is set out in the table.
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Number of unoccupied completed factories in public ownership and sites allocated for industrial development, Scotland, 31 March 1986 Area Number of unoccupied factories (public sector) (1) Number of sites allocated for industry (2) Scotland 1 21,462 800 Borders 25 41 Berwickshire 0 9 Ettrick and Lauderdale 18 15 Roxburgh 6 13 Tweeddale 1 4 Central 1 2101 21 Clackmannan 1 26 3 Falkirk 1 2(a) 12 Stirling 1 295(f) 6 Dumfries and Galloway 32 30 Annandale and Eskdale (c) 6 Nithsdale 22(f) 6 Stewartry 3 5 Wigtown 7 13 Fife 2143 52 Dunfermline 2(c) 18 Kirkcaldy 1 2143 23 North East Fife 1 2(c) 11 Grampian 31 97 Aberdeen City 9 15 Banff and Buchan 10 (f) 26
Area Number of unoccupied factories (public sector) (1) Number of sites allocated for industry (2) Gordon 5 21 Kincardine and Deeside (d) 8 Moray 7 27 Highland n/a 112 Badenoch and Strathspey n/a 9 Caithness n/a 9 Inverness n/a 9 Lochaber n/a 18 Nairn n/a 1 Ross and Cromarty n/a 30 Skye and Lochalsh n/a 18 Sutherland n/a 18 Lothian 273 58 East Lothian 26 10 Edinburgh City 219 21 Midlothian 22 9 West Lothian 246 18 Strathclyde 2959 288 Argyll and Bute 22 22 Bearsden and Milngavie (e) 0 Clydebank 36 10 Clydesdale 8 5 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 63 12 Cumnock and Doon Valley 22 12 Cunninghame 1 2110 17 Dumbarton 10 8 East Kilbride 295 4 Glasgow City 1 2323 (f) 97 Hamilton 47 8 Inverclyde 1 222 16 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 1 217 18 Kyle and Carrick 18 11 Monklands 1 267 7 Motherwell 81 17 Renfrew 37 22 Strathkelvin 11 1 Eastwood (e) 1 Tayside 88 65 Angus 11 13 Dundee City 1 285 28 Perth and Kinross 22 24 Islands Councils n/a 36 Orkney Islands n/a 4 Shetland Islands n/a 31 Western Isles n/a 1 Area not slated 10 0 Source:
Column (1) Factories record
Column (2) Register of industrial sites
Notes:
Column (1):
(1) Data relate to industrial premises owned by SDA, new town development corporations and local authorities; data on factories owned by the Highlands and Islands Development Board are not yet included in the record for this year.
(2) District figures are aggregated from local employment office areas.
(3) It has been necessary to group some districts, and this is noted in the table as follows:
- (a) included with Stirling,
- (b) included with Kirkcaldy,
- (c) included with Nithsdale,
- (d) included with Gordon,
- (e) included with Glasgow,
- (f) includes data from other Districts.
(4) 1 Data for at least part of area included for 1985 because 1986 not available.
543W(5) 2 Districts where data are incomplete because of lack of information from one of the relevant authorities or Agencies.
(6) n/a no data available for district.
(7) Unoccupied factories will include some already leased, reserved or unavailable for some other reason.
Column 2:
- (1) Both publicly and privately owned sites are included.
- (2) Not all the sites for industrial development will be available immediately and some sites already contain factories.