§ Mr. Andrew WelshTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table listing those local authorities who have failed to serve offers on tenants, to sell houses to tenants within two months of the application to purchase, the number of houses affected in each area, and the average time taken by each local authority to submit offers to sell to tenants.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 19 January 1989]Such information as is kept centrally is set out for the latest available period in the table:
Number of applications with formal offer overdue at 30 September 1988 Scotland 5,673 Berwickshire 6 Ettrick and Lauderdale — Roxburgh 4 Tweeddale 48 Clackmannan 166 Falkirk — Stirling 1 Annandale and Eskdale 99 Nithsdale IS Stewartry — Wigtown — Dunfermline 223 Kirkcaldy 252 North East Fife1 18 Aberdeen 600 Banff and Buchan 154 Bordon 2 Kincardine and Deeside 1 Moray 10 Badenoch and Strathspey — Caithness1 18 Inverness 84 Lochaber 3 Nairn — Rossi and Cromarty 1 Skye and Lochalsh — Sutherland — East Lothian — Edinburgh n.a. Midlothian 239 West Lothian 298 Argyll and Bute 12 Bearsdcn and Milngavie 72 Clydebank 51 Clydesdale — Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 52 Cumnock and Doon Valley1 2 Cunningharae 95 Dumbarton 367 East Kilbride 1 Eastwood 1 Glasgow 1,010 Hamilton 150 Inverclyde 152 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 108 Kyle and Carrick 894 Monklands1 4 Motherwell1 — Renfrew 102 Strathkelvin 58 Angus — Dundee 108 Perth and Kinross 167 Orkney Islands1 2 Shetland Islands 15 Western Isles 5 1 Returns outstanding. Most recent available information is shown. Source: SDD return 85.