§ Mr. Norman HoggTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide figures showing both the numbers and percentage of empty houses in (i) the public sector and (ii) the private sector in each local housing authority.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 14 July 1988]: The information requested for the public sector is given in the table. Comparable figures for the private sector are not collected centrally.
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Agency Total vacant stock as at 31 March 1987 Vacant stock as at 31 March 1987 Sutherland 0 0.00 Lothian East Lothian 218 1.48 Edinburgh 4,226 8.32 Midlothian 0 0.00 West Lothian1 143 0.68 Strathclyde Argyll and Bute 84 1.06 Bearsden and Milngavie 24 1.37 Clydebank 265 2.31 Clydesdale 160 1.69 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 56 1.33 Cumnock and Doon Valley 124 1.26 Cunninghame 393 1.76 Dumbarton 243 1.94 East Kilbride 8 0.57 Eastwood 4 0.22 Glasgow 5,612 3.31 Hamilton 322 1.44 Invcrclyde 507 2.73 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 429 2.50 Kyle and Carrick 198 1.16 Monklands 230 0.82 Motherwell 831 2.16 Renfrew 1,002 2.68 Strathkelvin 142 1.43 Tayside Angus 99 0.75 Dundee 1,354 3.46 Perth and Kinross 231 1.57 Islands Councils Orkney Islands 22 1.50 Shetland Islands 68 2.57 Western Isles 49 1.94 SSHA 1,225 1.47 New Towns Cumbernauld 268 3.26 East Kilbride 140 0.97 Glenrothes 139 1.87 Irvine 136 2.93 Livingston 611 6.21 1 1986 figures.