§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate how many houses categorised as defective under part XIV of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 remain in the ownership of(a) each local housing authority, (b) each new town development corporation or (c) the Scottish Special Housing Association.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe information requested, based on returns by the bodies concerned to the Scottish Development Department, is set out in the table. No houses of the type described are owned by any of the new town development corporations or by those local authorities not entered in the table.
Houses designated as defective under Part XIV of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 Public sector authority Number of houses owned Ettrick and Lauderdale 48 Roxburgh 50 Tweeddale 6 Clackmannan 81 Falkirk 599 Stirling 313 Nithsdale 42 Stewartry 40 Wigtown 74 Dunfermline 274 Kirkcaldy 283 North East Fife 63 Aberdeen 292 Banff and Buchan 87 Kincardine and Deeside 68 Moray 86 Inverness 129 Lochaber 167 East Lothian 208 Edinburgh 920 Midlothian 263 West Lothian 217 Argyll and Bute 156 Bearsden and Milngavie 89 Clydebank 479 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 172 Cumnock and Doon Valley 297 Cunninghame 363 Dumbarton 813 Glasgow 2,496 Hamilton 522 Inverclyde 120 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 79 Kyle and Carrick 49 Monklands 254 Motherwell 606 Renfrew 146 Strathkelvin 103 Angus 43 Dundee 1,146 Perth and Kinross 230 Western Isles 1 SSHA 2,147
§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many houses which are categorised as 127W defective under part XIV of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 have been purchased by sitting tenants since the passage of the Housing (Scotland) Act; and how many have subsequently been (a) repurchased by the land authority or (b) reinstated with grant aid.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonAssistance under the Housing Defects Act 1984, now consolidated as part XIV of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, is generally available only to those persons who bought their houses before the designated cut-off date of 26 April 1984. No information is therefore held centrally on defective houses purchased by sitting tenants after that date or of any subsequent resale to the authority.