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House Sales

Volume 111: debated on Tuesday 24 February 1987

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asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will list details of sales of council housing to sitting tenants up to the latest convenient date, by district within regional sub-totals; and what was the percentage of the relevant stock that existed at 30 September 1979 which has been sold to date;(2) if he will list details of sales of

(a) Scottish Special Housing Association housing and (b) New Town Development Corporation housing to sitting tenants up to the latest convenient date, indicating the percentage of the relevant stock that existed at 30 September 1979 which has been sold to date.

The information requested is set out in the table below.

Sales to sitting tenants between 1 October 1979 and 30 September 1986
AreaNumber of salesSales as per cent, of stock
SCOTLAND89,6118·6
LOCAL AUTHORITY62,8087·0
Borders1,80811·5
Berwick37112·9
Ettrick and Lauderdale68613·8
Roxburgh15428·6
Tweeddale120912·8

Area

Number of sales

Sales as per cent, of stock

Central

4,5028·0
Clackmannan6997·2
Falkirk2,7808·3
Stirling1,0237·8

Dumfries and Galloway

2,87413·8
Annandale and Eskdale71614·4
Nithsdale1,03812·1
Stewartry46018·1
Wigtown66814·0

Fife

8,34214·4
Dunfermline3,21813·9
Kirkcaldy3,44613·0
North East Fife1,67821·0

Grampian

7,76910·9
Aberdeen2,8787·5
Banff and Buchan1,67213·2
Gordon1,10518·1
Kincardine and Deeside56415·6
Moray1,55014·6

Highland

2,79710·9
Badenoch and Strathspey19318·0
Caithness53212·4
Inverness83912·0
Lochaber2788·3
Nairn17816·1
Ross and Cromarty5098·1
Skye and Lochalsh10515·0
Sutherland11639·4

Lothian

9,8789·1
East Lothian1,68210·4
Edinburgh5,2039·2
Midlothian1,63412·4
West Lothian1,3596·0

Strathclyde

18,3664·0
Argyll and Bute6738·1
Bearsden and Milngavie28415·5
Clydebank4153·5
Clydesdale2672·8
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth2285·2
Cumnock and Doon Valley4124·0
Cunninghame11,2875·5
Dunbarton4583·5
East Kilbride18911·6
Eastwood28113·8
Glasgow4,5492·6
Hamilton9674·2
Inverclyde1,0055·0
Kilmarnock and Loudoun8984·9
Kyle and Carrick11,6068·8
Monklands5882·1
Motherwell1,0372·6
Renfrew12,3115·8
Strathkelvin9118·3

Tayside

5,6017·9
Angus1,70611·7
Dundee1,5723·9
Perth and Kinross2,32314·2

Orkney Islands

20113·9

Shetland Islands

24810·2

Western Isles Islands

42217·7
NEWTOWNS12,05622·9
S.S.H.A.14,82416·0

1 Returns outstanding.