HC Deb 18 October 1989 vol 158 c170W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many house repossessions there were in(a) Scotland, (b) Strathclyde, and (c) Glasgow for each year since 1979.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The Council of Mortgage Lenders publishes statistics on the number of repossessions by building societies in the United Kingdom as a whole, but no information is available for Scotland only or any part of it; and no information is available to the Government on repossessions by other mortgage lenders in Scotland.