§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in theOfficial Report, by district council area, the average time taken by each district council in processing applications by sitting tenants for purchasing their council houses; and if he will also list for each district council their total housing stock.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe information requested is set out in the table.
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Average processing time for houses sold in the quarter ended 30 June 1989 and Local Authority stock at 31 March 1989 Average processing time (months) Stock at 31 March 1989 Local authorities 9.6 797,315 Borders Berwickshire 6.0 2,379 Ettrick and Lauderdale 7.4 3,956 Roxburgh 6.0 5,179 Tweeddale1 9.8 1,479 Central Clackmannan 7.0 8,442 Falkirk 7.6 28,787 Stirling1 9.2 11,825 Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale 8.9 4,718 Nithsdale 6.8 7,074 Stewartry 5.1 2,263 Wigtown 7.9 4,216 Fife Dunfermline2 7.8 18,793 Kirkcaldy 9.3 22,767 North East Fife 9.3 6,522 Grampian Aberdeen 10.8 37,088 Banff and Buchan2 9.3 11,370 Gordon 8.5 5,432 Kincardine and Deeside 7.1 3,547 Moray 6.1 9,881 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey 5.3 1,028 Caithness 5.2 3,746 Inverness 9.0 6,357 Lochaber 7.7 2,844 Nairn 5.0 1,051 Ross and Cromarty 5.0 6,034 Skye and Lochalsh 7.0 775 Sutherland 11.0 1,725 Lothian East Lothian 8.3 13,649 Edinburgh 11.8 45,931 Midlothian 9.9 10,516 West Lothian 10.9 19,636 Strathclyde Argyll and Bute 12.1 7,840 Bearsden and Milngavie 11.5 1,714 Clydebank 11.0 10,787 Clydesdale 10.3 8,890 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 10.1 3,907 Cumnock and Doon Valley 8.9 9,263 Cunninghame2 9.2 20,876 Dumbarton 11.3 11,621 East Kilbride 6.7 1,268 Eastwood 8.4 1,728 Glasgow 12.7 161,019 Hamilton 7.0 21,041 Inverclyde2 9.6 17,832 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 9.0 15,687 Kyle and Carrick1 9.0 16,011 Monklands2 10.4 26,741 Motherwell2 9.0 36,511 Renfrew 9.7 35,000 Strathkelvin 6.1 9,224 Tayside Angus 6.7 12,490 Dundee 13.3 36,845 Perth and Kinross 9.2 14,073 Orkney Islands1 5.6 1,406
Average processing time (months) Stock at 31 March 1989 Shetland Islands 10.8 2,601 Western Isles1 7.6 2,411 1Latest stock figure available 30 September 1988. 2 Average processing time for quarter 1 1989.