§ Mr. DewarTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide a table showing the number of applications to local authorities under the homeless legislation for all cases where the household was deemed to be in priority need because of vulnerability due to old age; and if he will provide this information for every available year since 1977 and for each local authority and for Scotland as a whole.
§ Mr. RifkindThe homeless persons legislation did not come into effect until 1 April 1978. There are therefore no figures for before that date. The number of applicant households assessed by local authorities as homeless or potentially homeless, and in priority need for reasons which included a person vulnerable because of old age, for the years 1978–79 to 1988–89, are set out in the following table.
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District 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 Cunninghame 20 14 13 8 16 11 12 13 10 10 5 Dumbarton 5 16 13 5 11 5 15 23 26 28 24 East Kilbride 10 5 8 14 9 13 5 15 7 5 8 Eastwood — — — — — — — — — — 1 Glasgow 103 163 123 104 145 131 101 125 130 90 112 Hamilton 20 31 12 86 9 11 13 19 10 11 13 Inverclyde 4 10 10 30 13 11 18 14 28 18 13 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 2 2 3 4 1 4 7 11 7 — 13 Kyle and Carrick 36 20 15 24 20 24 46 28 25 25 28 Monklands 16 9 5 12 6 6 4 7 12 10 5 Motherwell 14 12 13 21 14 30 10 12 15 10 8 Renfrew 53 34 7 8 9 20 8 17 7 13 4 Strathkelvin 5 12 23 32 15 16 9 5 13 7 13 Tayside Angus 11 12 10 8 6 6 8 6 10 18 11 Dundee 14 4 2 3 1 4 5 23 15 10 7 Perth and Kinross 30 34 23 35 33 26 34 53 55 46 34 Orkney Islands — — — — — — — 2 — 1— 1— Shetland Islands 3 6 — — 2 2 2 1 5 2 2 Western Isles 12 8 4 6 3 2 3 1 5 2 2 1 Not available.
§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many homeless children there are in(a) Glasgow, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThis information is not collected centrally.