HC Deb 25 June 1996 vol 280 c54W
Sir Russell Johnston

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the number of homeless people in(a) the Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber parliamentary constituency, (b) the Highlands and (c) Scotland. [34012]

Mr. Raymond S. Robertson

[holding answer 21 June 1996]: Figures are not available by parliamentary constituency, but in 1994–95—the latest year for which figures are available—370 households applying to local authorities were assessed as homeless in the highlands. The corresponding figure for Scotland was 25,100.