§ Mr. MaxtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the number of second homes for each district and island council in Scotland on the basis of information collected for the community charge.
§ Mr Lang[holding answer 15 October 1990]: Information on second homes as such is not collected for the purpose of levying the community charge. The number of premises liable for the standard community charge for each district and islands council area as at 1 July 1990—figures which include holiday homes and certain vacant houses as well as second homes—is set out in the table.
Authority Number of standard charge premises July 1990 Berwickshire 303 Ettrick and Lauderdale 276 Roxburgh 303 Tweeddale 161 Clackmannan 469 Falkirk 1,723 Stirling 1,249 Annandale and Eskdale 612 Nithsdale 841 Stewartry 780 Wigtown 750 Dunfermline 346 Kirkcaldy 398 North East Fife 1,359 Aberdeen 5,173 Banff and Buchan 1,753 Gordon 1,706 Kincardine and Deeside 1,390 Moray 2,158 Badenoch and Strathspey 1,113 Caithness 1,075 Inverness 1,464 Lochaber 923 Nairn 298 Ross and Cromarty 2,057 Skye and Lochalsh 984 Sutherland 1,140 East Lothian 2,420 Edinburgh 15,912 Midlothian 1,629 West Lothian 2,759 Argyll and Bute 3,826 Bearsden and Milngavie 138 Clydebank 738 Clydesdale 518 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 340 Cumnock and Doon Valley 304 Cunninghame 2,130 Dumbarton 991 East Kilbride 418 Eastwood 301 Glasgow 12,920 Hamilton 675 Inverclyde 965 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 652 Kyle and Carrick 1,039 Monklands 874 Motherwell 1,164 Renfrew 2,278 Strathkelvin 290 Angus 1,943 Dundee 5,275 Perth and Kinross 4,049 Orkney 553 Shetland 833 Western Isles 3,199 All Scotland Total 99,937