§ Mr. SoleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many households were accepted as homeless by the City of Glasgow, Midlothian and Inverclyde for each quarter of 1988.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonOn the basis of information thus far returned by authorities, applicant households assessed as homeless by the authorities concerned are shown in the following table.
Applicant households assessed by local authorities as homeless: 1988 Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 City of Glasgow 335 271 313 184 Midlothian 30 31 18 26 Inverclyde 40 26 33 15 Because of different definitions and a different basis of compilation this information is not comparable with statistics of households accepted as homeless in England.