§ Mr. WelshTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each district and islands council the number of council houses sold through(a) right to buy and (b) rent to mortgage in 1995–96. [1617]
§ Mr. Raymond S. Robertson[holding answer 1 November 1996]: The available information is set out in the table which follows. These are provisional figures as a number of returns are still outstanding.
471W
Number of sales of council houses to sitting tenants in Scotland by district/islands council for the financial year 1995–96 (provisional) Right to buy Rent to mortgage Scotland 11,836 80 Berwickshire1 0 0 Ettrick and Lauderdale 60 0 Roxburgh 116 20 Tweeddale 230 20 Clackmannan 148 1 Falkirk 395 0 Stirling 198 0 Annandale and Eskdale 103 0 Nithsdale 163 0 Stewartry 56 0 Wigtown 130 3— Dunfermline 395 0 Kirkcaldy 380 21 North east Fife 3— 3— Aberdeen 575 146 Banff and Buchan 221 1 Gordon 125 8 Kincardine and Deeside 255 8 Moray 229 2 Badenoch and Strathspey 30 3— Caithness 273 20 Inverness 118 20 Lochaber 57 0 Nairn 28 0 Ross and Cromarty 128 1 Skye and Lochalsh 23 3— Sutherland 218 0 East Lothian 2141 7 Edinburgh 705 1 Midlothian 150 2 West Lothian 363 1 Argyll and Bute 166 1 Bearsden and Milngavie 23 0 Clydebank 98 0 Clydesdale 2107 3— Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 92 0 Cumnock and Doon Valley 196 0 Cunninghame 336 0 Dumbarton 290 0 East Kilbride 29 20 Eastwood 3— 3— Glasgow 1,688 0 Hamilton 468 0 Inverclyde 336 0
Number of sales of council houses to sitting tenants in Scotland by district/islands council for the financial year 1995–96 (provisional) Right to buy Rent to mortgage Kilmarnock and Loudoun 2188 0 Kyle and Carrick 431 0 Monklands 547 0 Motherwell 647 3— Renfrew 386 0 Strathkelvin 139 3— Angus 230 0 Dundee 401 0 Perth and Kinross 2223 20 Orkney Islands 35 0 Shetland Islands 57 20 Western Isles 30 0 1 All local authority housing stock has now been disposed of. 2 Data incomplete: figures for part-year only. 3 No information has been received for this period.