To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by district council the number of council houses sold since October 1980; if he will also show this as a percentage of total stock at the start of that period; and if he will show the number of new build houses in that period.
Information by district council on the number of council houses sold since October 1980, expressed as a percentage of the total local authority stock, is set out in the following table.Information on new building within each district is regularly published in the statistical bulletin—"Housing Trends in Scotland", available in the Library. The latest information is in table 5 of the bulletin HSG/1991/7.
| Number of dwellings sold' by local authorities October 1980 to 30 June 1991 | ||
| Local Authority District | Total sales | Percentage of stock2 |
| Total, all local Authorities | 171,858 | 19·2 |
| Borders | ||
| Berwickshire | 725 | 25·4 |
| Ettrick and Lauderdale | 1,290 | 25·9 |
| Roxburgh | 1,337 | 21 3 |
| Tweeddale | 394 | 24·2 |
| Central | ||
| Clackmannan | 1,952 | 20·4 |
| Falkirk | 6,996 | 20·8 |
| Stirling | 2,891 | 22·1 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | ||
| Annandale and Eskdale | 1,429 | 27·9 |
| Nithsdale | 2,305 | 26·5 |
| Stewartry | 782 | 30·1 |
| Wigtown, | 1,163 | 24·3 |
| Fife | ||
| Dunfermline | 6,170 | 26·5 |
| Kirkcaldy | 6,323 | 24·0 |
Local Authority District
| Total sales
| Percentage of stock 2
|
| North East Fife | 2,844 | 35·2 |
| Grampian | ||
| Aberdeen | 5,787 | 14·9 |
| Bun IT and Buchan | 3,053 | 23·9 |
| Gordon | 1,633 | 26·7 |
| Kincardine and Deeside | 83·1 | 22·7 |
| Moray | 3,001 | 27·3 |
| Highland | ||
| Badenoch and Strathspey | 400 | 36·7 |
| Caithness | 888 | 20·6 |
| Inverness | 1,650 | 23·1 |
| Lochaber | 935 | 26·8 |
| Nairn | 269 | 24·3 |
| Ross and Cromarty | 997 | 15·8 |
| Skye and Lochalsh | 200 | 27·4 |
| Sutherland | 310 | 17·9 |
| Lothian | ||
| East Lothian | 4,294 | 26·4 |
| Edinburgh | 14,744 | 26·2 |
| Midlothian | 3,686 | 27·9 |
| West Lothian | 3,956 | 17·9 |
| Strathclyde | ||
| Argyll and Bute | 1,516 | 18·0 |
| Bearsden and Milngavie | 532 | 29·2 |
| Clydebank | 2,428 | 20·5 |
| Clydesdale | 1,510 | 15·5 |
| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | 884 | 20·1 |
| Cumnock and Doon Valley | 1,471 | 14·2 |
| Cunninghame | 4,247 | 18·6 |
| Dumbarton | 1,883 | 14·3 |
| East Kilbride | 497 | 30·6 |
| Eastwood | 545 | 27·3 |
| Glasgow | 23,274 | 13·4 |
| Hamilton | 4,515 | 19·6 |
| Inverclyde | 2,478 | 12 5 |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 2,948 | 16·1 |
| Kyle and Carrick | 4,662 | 25·5 |
| Monklands | 4,088 | 14·3 |
| Motherwell | 4,938 | 12·4 |
| Renfrew | 7,522 | 19·0 |
| Strathkelvin | 2,642 | 23·9 |
| Tayside | ||
| Angus | 3,243 | 22·2 |
| Dundee | 6,977 | 17·4 |
| Perth and Kinross | 4,395 | 26·8 |
| Islands Councils | ||
| Orkney Islands | 425 | 28·1 |
| Shetland Islands | 417 | 16·7 |
| Western Isles | 586 | 23·7 |
1 All sales of dwellings by local authorities. | ||
2 Stock of local authority dwellings as at 30 September 1980. | ||