asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide details of the numbers of new dwellings started by each local authority in Scotland for each of the years 1978–79 to 1985–86 inclusive, and the total number of new dwellings started by each local authority for the whole of that period.
The information requested is set out in the table below.
Financial Years
| |||||||||
Area
| 1978–79
| 1979–80
| 1980–81
| 1981–82
| 1982–83
| 1983–84
| 1984–85
| 1985–86
| Total
|
Strathclyde
| 1,460 | 1,795 | 735 | 486 | 452 | 489 | 389 | 178 | 5,984 |
| Argyll and Bute | 152 | 54 | 70 | 32 | 0 | 94 | 0 | 0 | 402 |
| Bearsden and Milngavie | 79 | 51 | 56 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 214 |
| Clydebank | 35 | 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138 |
| Clydesdale | 33 | 22 | 47 | 26 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 30 | 190 |
| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | 30 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 81 |
| Cumnock and Doon Valley | 29 | 61 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 114 |
| Cunninghame | 35 | 97 | 10 | 79 | 45 | 56 | 65 | 33 | 420 |
| Dumbarton | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 59 |
| East Kilbride | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Eastwood | 25 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 36 | 40 | 1 | 119 |
| Glasgow | 68 | 790 | 146 | 62 | 32 | 118 | 49 | 0 | 1,265 |
| Hamilton | 117 | 102 | 91 | 99 | 70 | 30 | 83 | 0 | 592 |
| Invcrclyde | 0 | 12 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 0 | 102 |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 91 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164 |
| Kyle and Carrick | 241 | 43 | 19 | 94 | 20 | 96 | 2 | 70 | 585 |
| Monklands | 12 | 41 | 8 | 0 | 48 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 139 |
| Motherwell | 161 | 229 | 36 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 476 |
| Renfrew | 124 | 120 | 184 | 60 | 132 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 652 |
| Strathkelvin | 183 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 272 |
Tayside
| 486 | 123 | 214 | 147 | 171 | 246 | 150 | 117 | 1,654 |
| Angus | 69 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 34 | 54 | 31 | 114 | 321 |
| Dundee | 133 | 51 | 82 | 85 | 50 | 6 | 56 | 3 | 466 |
| Perth and Kinross | 284 | 65 | 132 | 50 | 87 | 186 | 63 | 0 | 867 |
Orkney Islands
| 7 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 43 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 116 |
Shetland Islands
| 31 | 131 | 46 | 47 | 34 | 31 | 20 | 24 | 364 |
Western Isles
| 55 | 86 | 97 | 28 | 42 | 50 | 2 | 41 | 401 |