§ Mrs. Ray MichieTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by district the proportion of land in Scotland designated as sites of special scientific interest or otherwise protected.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 20 July 1989]: The following table lists by district the proportion of land in Scotland designated as sites of special scientific interest. This information has been provided by the Nature Conservancy Council.
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District SSSI area(HA) SSSI proportion per cent. Aberdeen 41 0.2 Angus 7,418 3.6 Annan and Eskdale 20,004 12.8 Argyll and Bute 45,838 6.9 Badenoch and Strathspey 63,583 26.9 Banff and Buchan 3,097 2.0 Bearsden and Milngavie 57 1.5 Berwickshire 2,033 2.3 Caithness 19,384 10.7 Clackmannan 465 2.9 Clydebank 0.0 Clydesdale 4,863 3.7 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 14 0.1 Cumnock and Doon Valley 521 0.6 Cunninghame 14,639 16.6 Dumbarton 4,672 8.8 Dundee 845 3.6 Dunfermline 1,031 3.4 East Kilbride 11 0.0 East Lothian 4,660 6.5 Eastwood 53 0.4 Edinburgh 1,223 4.6 Ettrick and Lauderdale 10,678 7.8 Falkirk 1,451 4.8 Glasgow 150 0.7 Gordon 5,465 2.5 Hamilton 415 3.1 Inverclyde 138 0.9 Inverness 24,952 8.6 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 0 0.0 Kincardine and Deeside 35,274 13.7 Kirkcaldy 118 0.5 Kyle and Carrick 3,486 2.6 Lochaber 62,693 13.5 Midlothian 1,008 2.8 Monklands 159 0.9 Moray 16,092 6.9 Motherwell 16 0.1 Nairn 5,105 12.0 Nithsdale 2,370 1.6 North East Fife 5,035 6.6 Orkney 19,888 19.7 Perth and Kinross 48,964 9.1 Renfrew 781 2.5 Ross and Cromarty 90,882 17.6
District SSSI area(HA) SSSI proportion per cent. Roxburgh 4,768 3.1 Shetland 15,645 10.7 Skye and Lochalsh 28,617 10.5 Stewarty 8,527 5.0 Stirling 15,586 7.0 Strathkelvin 78 0.5 Sutherland 75,756 12.5 Tweeddale 7,309 8.1 West Lothian 689 1.6 Western Isles 31,352 10.2 Wigtown 16,745 9.7 TOTAL 734,645 9.3