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Scottish Homes

Volume 184: debated on Tuesday 22 January 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give a breakdown of Scottish Homes sales under the rents to mortgage scheme in each of Scottish Homes district office areas from October 1989 to the nearest available date.

The information is set out in the table:

Position at 31 December 1990
Scottish Homes district office areaSales
Edinburgh3
Lothian and Borders28
Central9
Fife11
Grampian17
Tayside7
Highlands and Islands4
Lanarkshire2
Renfrew and Inverclyde14
Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway8
Glasgow North and East6
Glasgow South1
Glasgow West1
TOTAL111

In addition, nine sales have been made to tenants of new town development corporations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what income Scottish Homes received in capital receipts from house sales in the third quarter of 1990–91 from (a) right-to-buy sales, (b) rents-to-mortgage sales, (c) sales under the portable discount scheme and (d) vacant possession sales.

The information is as follows:

£ million
Right to Buy sales10·430
Rent to Mortgage sales0·874
Portable Discount scheme0·276
Vacant Possession sales0·908
Total12·488
All the above figures include receipts from miscellaneous items such as building insurance and repair funds. Figures net of these miscellaneous items are not currently available for each type of sale.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what income Scottish Homes has received from (a) enabling receipts, (b) stock disposal, (c) voluntary transfers, (d) house sales and (e) disposal of non-housing assets in the first, second and third quarters of 1990–91.

The information is set out in the table.

1st Quarter2nd Quarter3rd QuarterTotal to 31 December 1990 Quarter
£ million£million£million£ million
Enabling Receipts5·7133·2296·91115·853
Stock Disposal0·6130·3870·3061·306
Voluntary Transfers
House Sales5·1318·66612·32226·119
Disposal of non-Housing Assets0·0240·4680·0370·529
Total11·48112·75019·57643·807