§ Mr. Andrew WelshTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each local government area the number of council houses sold to tenants under the Housing Acts; and if he will express this as a proportion of the total housing stock in each such area.
§ Lord James Douglas-hamiltonThe available information is set out in the table.
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Local authority houses sold to sitting tenants from 1 April 1979 to 30 September 1988 Area Houses sold to sitting tenants from 1 April 1979 to 30 September 1988 Percentage of stock sold to sitting tenants1 Scotland 95,023 10.63 Borders Berwickshire 521 18.18 Ettrick and Lauderdale 941 18.89 Roxburgh2 913 14.57 Tweeddale2 270 16.58 Central Clackmannan 1,143 11.84 Falkirk 4,250 12.68 Stirling 1,680 12.79 Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale2 989 19.95 Nithsdale 1,610 18.74 Stewartry 632 24.83 Wigtown 879 18.67 Fife Dunfermline 4,196 18.09 Kirkcaldy 4,620 17.37 North East Fife2 1,988 24.85 Grampian Aberdeen 3,721 9.72 Banff and Buchan2 2,158 17.06 Gordon 1,291 21.18 Kincardine and Deeside 666 18.37 Moray 2,147 20.24 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey 288 26.89 Caithness2 690 16.04 Inverness 1,107 15.78 Lochaber 515 15.30 Nairn 212 19.12 Ross and Cromarty 671 10.73 Skye and Lochalsh 140 20.00 Sutherland 226 13.06 Lothian East Lothian 2,621 16.13 Edinburgh2 7,228 12.71 Midlothian 2,308 17.54 West Lothian 2,130 9.45 Strathclyde Argyll and Bute 950 11.45 Bearsden and Milngavie 369 20.20 Clydebank 944 7.98 Clydesdale 608 6.29
Area Houses sold to sitting tenants from 1 April 1979 to 30 September 1988 Percentage of stock sold to sitting tenants1 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 460 10.49 Cumnock and Doon Valley2 639 6.17 Cunninghame 2,496 10.59 Dumbarton2 854 6.51 East Kilbride 324 19.95 Eastwood 426 21.00 Glasgow 8,055 4.60 Hamilton 1,991 8.71 Inverclyde 1,543 7.69 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 1,620 8.91 Kyle and Carrick 2,977 16.23 Monklands 2 1,396 4.89 Motherwcll2 1,941 4.86 Renfrew 4,076 10.32 Strathkelvin 1,623 14.81 Tayside Angus 2,332 16.00 Dundee 2,668 6.65 Perth and Kinross 2,923 17.93 Orkney Islands2 243 16.76 Shetland Islands 331 13.66 Western Isles 483 20.21 1 Stock as at 30 September 1979. 2 Complete figures are not available for this period, due to outstanding returns.