§ Mr. Norman HoggTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many persons are homeless in each of the district council areas.
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Lord James Douglas HamiltonThe only figures available relate to the number of applicants assessed as homeless by local authorities under part II of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, which will not be equal to the numbers currently homeless. These figures, as recorded by local authorities, are given in the following table:
Applicants assessed as homeless under Part II of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 by district, Scotland, 1988–89 District Number Borders Berwickshire 6 Ettrick and Lauderdale 21 Roxburgh 29 Tweeddale n/a Central Clackmannan 17 Falkirk 458 Stirling 158 Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale 48 Nithsdale 144 Stewartry 21 Wigtown 55 Fife Dunfermline 254 Kirkcaldy 258 North East Fife 88 Grampian Aberdeen 625 Banff and Buchan 111 Gordon 36 Kincardine and Deeside 8 Moray 41 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey — Caithness 12 Inverness 51 Lochaber 22 Nairn 16 Ross and Cromarty 18 Skye and Lochalsh 20 Sutherland 8 Lothian East Lothian 355 Edinburgh 1,167 Midlothian 87 West Lothian 119 Strathclyde Argyll and Bute 96 Bearsden and Milngavie 26 Clydebank 632 Clydesdale 8 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 89 Cumnock and Doon Valley 38 Cunninghame 147 Dumbarton 461 East Kilbride 132 Eastwood 7 Glasgow 1,312 Hamilton 82 Inverclyde 111 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 147 Kyle and Carrick 294 Monklands 214 Motherwell 121 Renfrew 261 Strathkelvin 91 Tayside Angus 177 Dundee 403 Perth and Kinross 98 Islands Councils Orkney Islands n/a Shetland Islands 63 Western Isles 37