Second Houses Mr. Gordon Wilson asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the latest available figures for the number of second homes in Scotland in aggregate and broken down by district and island council areas, in numerical terms and as a proportion of the total housing stock. Mr. Allan Stewart The information requested is set out in the following table. These estimates are based on the post-enumeration survey of a 10 per cent. sample of properties which were vacant or from which the occupier was absent at the time of the 1981 census. No information is available on second homes which were occupied on census night.------------------------- |District Authority | ------------------------- |BORDERS | ------------------------- |Berwickshire | ------------------------- |Ettrick and Lauderdale | ------------------------- |Roxburgh | ------------------------- |Tweeddale | ------------------------- |CENTRAL | ------------------------- |Clackmannan | ------------------------- |Falkirk | ------------------------- |Stirling | ------------------------- |DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY | ------------------------- |Annandale and Eskdale | ------------------------- |Nithsdale | ------------------------- |Stewartry | ------------------------- |Wigtown | ------------------------- |FIFE | ------------------------- |Dunfermline | ------------------------- |Kirkcaldy | ------------------------- |North East Fife | ------------------------- |GRAMPIAN | ------------------------- |City of Aberdeen | ------------------------- |Banff and Buchan | ------------------------- |Gordon | ------------------------- |Kincardine and Deeside | ------------------------- |Moray | ------------------------- |HIGHLAND | ------------------------- |Badenoch and Strathspey| ------------------------- |Caithness | ------------------------- |Inverness | ------------------------- |Lochaber | ------------------------- |Nairn | ------------------------- |Ross and Cromarty | ------------------------- |Sye and Lochalsh | ------------------------- |Sutherland | ------------------------- |LOTHIAN | ------------------------- |East Lothian | ------------------------- |City of Edinburgh | ------------------------- |Midlothian | ------------------------- |West Lothian | ------------------------- |STRATHCLYDE | ------------------------- |Argyll and Bute | ------------------------- |Bearsden and Milngavie | ------------------------- |Clydebank | ------------------------- |Clydesdale | ------------------------- |Cumbernauld and Kilsyth| ------------------------- |Cumnock and Doon Valley| ------------------------- |Cunninghame | ------------------------- |Dumbarton | ------------------------- |East Kilbride | ------------------------- |Eastwood | ------------------------- |City of Glasgow | ------------------------- |Hamilton | ------------------------- |Inverclyde | ------------------------- |Kilmarnock and Loudoun | ------------------------- |Kyle and Garrick | ------------------------- |Monklands | ------------------------- |Motherwell | ------------------------- |Renfrew | ------------------------- |Strathkelvin | ------------------------- |TAYSIDE | ------------------------- |Angus | ------------------------- ----------------------- |City of Dundee | ----------------------- |Perth and Kinross | ----------------------- |ORKNEY ISLANDS AREA | ----------------------- |SHETLAND ISLANDS AREA| ----------------------- |WESTERN ISLES ISLANDS| ----------------------- |AREA | ----------------------- |Scotland | ----------------------- Mr. Gordon Wilson asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate the proportions by country, including the home countries, wherein the owners of second homes in Scotland have their principal place of residence. Mr. Allan Stewart The information requested is set out in the following table. The estimates are based on the number of known second homes identified by a survey of a 10 per cent. sample of vacant or occupier absent properties at the time of the 1981 census. No information is available on second homes which were occupied on census night.------------------------------ |Principal place of residence| ------------------------------ |Scotland | ------------------------------ |England | ------------------------------ |Wales | ------------------------------ |Northern Ireland | ------------------------------ |Eire | ------------------------------ |Elsewhere | ------------------------------ |Not known | ------------------------------ |TOTAL | ------------------------------ As there were no known second homes identified in the sample which were owned by persons whose principal residence was in Wales, Northern Ireland or Eire, this indicates that the percentages are likely to be small, though not necessarily zero. Information is available only for the countries listed.