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Mr. Sillars
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish figures showing the number of private houses built in Scotland in the period 1960 to the nearest available date.
Mr. Gordon Campbell
119,595 new private houses were completed in the period 1st January 1960 to 31st December 1973, as follows:
| 1960 | 6,529 |
| 1961 | 7,147 |
| 1962 | 7,784 |
| 1963 | 6,622 |
| 1964 | 7,662 |
| 1965 | 7,553 |
| 1966 | 7,870 |
| 1967 | 7,489 |
| 1968 | 8,719 |
| 1969 | 8,327 |
| 1970 | 8,220 |
| 1971 | 11,614 |
| 1972 | 11,835 |
| 1973 | 12,215 |