§ Mr. MaxtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will show vacancy rates as a proportion of the total stock of dwellings in each tenure in 1989, or in the latest year available.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 1 November 1989]: It is estimated that at 31 March 1989, 3 per cent. of the public sector stock was vacant. Comparable figures for the private sector are not collected centrally.