asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish details by region, and for travel-to-work areas, what is the amount of allocation to each authority in the Northern Region; and how many housing units are owned per authority.
Following is the information for 1977–78.including major concentrations of shipbuilding, of the total effective area of (
a) advance factories currently unoccupied, ( b) proposed advance factories under construction or for which firm plans or commitments exist, ( c) the scale of firm inquiries for the use of the unused
advance factories measured in terms of space and job numbers and ( d) the net addition to employment attributable to the advance factory programme since 1974 giving the details of the overall floor space available in each case.
These are matters for which responsibility now rests primarily with the Scottish Development Agency, although advance factories are also provided by local authorities, new
| Announced before 15th December 1975 | Announced on or after 15th December 1975* | Total | Total allocated† | ||||||
| Region | Number | Size (000 sq. ft.) | Number | Size (000 sq. ft.) | Number | Size (000 sq. ft.) | Number | Size (000 sq. ft.) | Estimated employment in factories allocated |
| Strathclyde | 32 | 664 | 23 | 277 | 55 | 941 | 13 | 201 | 873 |
| Tayside | 7 | 110 | 3 | 55 | 10 | 165 | 5 | 120 | 616 |
| Lothian | 1 | 25 | — | — | 1 | 25 | 1 | 25 | ‡ |
| Borders | — | — | 6 | 37 | 6 | 37 | 5 | 39 | 298 |
| Grampian | 3 | 15 | 6 | 29 | 9 | 44 | 3 | 15 | 69 |
| Fife | 1 | 10 | 5 | 35 | 6 | 45 | 1 | 10 | 47 |
| Central | 1 | 23 | 5 | 53 | 6 | 76 | 1 | 23 | 79 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 5 | 35 | 4 | 21 | 9 | 56 | — | — | — |
| Shipbuilding travel to work areas: | |||||||||
| Glasgow City | 14 | 333 | 7 | 120 | 21 | 453 | 3 | 50 | 196 |
| West Renfrew | 2 | 20 | — | — | 2 | 20 | 1 | 10 | 24 |
| * Advance factory programmes were announced by the SDA in December 1975, June 1976 and December 1976. | |||||||||
| † Of these, all but three—one in each of Borders, Tayside and Strathclyde Regions—were in programmes announced before 15th December 1975. | |||||||||
| ‡ It is not possible to isolate an employment figure for this factory which has been allocated as part of a much larger project. | |||||||||