§ Mr. BrakeTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of hectares of contaminated land in each of the last 12 years in each county and region. [33036]
§ Mr. MacdonaldInformation on contaminated land in each of the last 12 years is not available centrally. However, the Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 1996 provides some information on contamination. Of the 8,482 hectares (2,546 sites) of derelict land recorded in the survey, 1,672 ha (279 sites) are suspected to be contaminated and 1,490 ha (181 sites) are known to be contaminated. The known contamination of derelict land by local authority area is as follows:
Known contaminated derelict land by council area 1996 Council Area(ha) Number of sites Aberdeenshire 2 1 Angus 9 4 Argyll and Bute 8 3 West Dunbartonshire 4 3 Dumfries and Galloway 129 2 East Dunbartonshire 14 3 East Lothian 2 2 East Renfrewshire 16 1 Falkirk 34 4 Fife 428 12 Glasgow 161 19 Highland 107 8 Inverclyde 0 1 Midlothian 66 8 North Ayrshire 224 77 North Lanarkshire 151 16 Perthshire and Kinross 3 1 South Ayrshire 3 1 South Lanarkshire 60 11 Stirling 33 1 West Lothian 39 3 Scotland 1,490 181 Notes:
1. Figures may not sum due to rounding.
2. Unlisted Councils report no known contaminated land.
Copies of the full report on the Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey are available in the House of Commons Library.