§ Mr. SillarsTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by district council the number of council houses sold since October 1980; if he will also show this as a percentage of total stock at the start of that period; and if he will show the number of new build houses in that period.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonInformation by district council on the number of council houses sold since October 1980, expressed as a percentage of the total local authority stock, is set out in the following table.
Information on new building within each district is regularly published in the statistical bulletin—"Housing Trends in Scotland", available in the Library. The latest information is in table 5 of the bulletin HSG/1991/7.
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Number of dwellings sold' by local authorities October 1980 to 30 June 1991 Local Authority District Total sales Percentage of stock2 Total, all local Authorities 171,858 19.2 Borders Berwickshire 725 25.4 Ettrick and Lauderdale 1,290 25.9 Roxburgh 1,337 21 3 Tweeddale 394 24.2 Central Clackmannan 1,952 20.4 Falkirk 6,996 20.8 Stirling 2,891 22.1 Dumfries and Galloway Annandale and Eskdale 1,429 27.9 Nithsdale 2,305 26.5 Stewartry 782 30.1 Wigtown, 1,163 24.3 Fife Dunfermline 6,170 26.5 Kirkcaldy 6,323 24.0
Local Authority District Total sales Percentage of stock2 North East Fife 2,844 35.2 Grampian Aberdeen 5,787 14.9 Bun IT and Buchan 3,053 23.9 Gordon 1,633 26.7 Kincardine and Deeside 83.1 22.7 Moray 3,001 27.3 Highland Badenoch and Strathspey 400 36.7 Caithness 888 20.6 Inverness 1,650 23.1 Lochaber 935 26.8 Nairn 269 24.3 Ross and Cromarty 997 15.8 Skye and Lochalsh 200 27.4 Sutherland 310 17.9 Lothian East Lothian 4,294 26.4 Edinburgh 14,744 26.2 Midlothian 3,686 27.9 West Lothian 3,956 17.9 Strathclyde Argyll and Bute 1,516 18.0 Bearsden and Milngavie 532 29.2 Clydebank 2,428 20.5 Clydesdale 1,510 15.5 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 884 20.1 Cumnock and Doon Valley 1,471 14.2 Cunninghame 4,247 18.6 Dumbarton 1,883 14.3 East Kilbride 497 30.6 Eastwood 545 27.3 Glasgow 23,274 13.4 Hamilton 4,515 19.6 Inverclyde 2,478 12 5 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 2,948 16.1 Kyle and Carrick 4,662 25.5 Monklands 4,088 14.3 Motherwell 4,938 12.4 Renfrew 7,522 19.0 Strathkelvin 2,642 23.9 Tayside Angus 3,243 22.2 Dundee 6,977 17.4 Perth and Kinross 4,395 26.8 Islands Councils Orkney Islands 425 28.1 Shetland Islands 417 16.7 Western Isles 586 23.7 1 All sales of dwellings by local authorities. 2 Stock of local authority dwellings as at 30 September 1980.