Question reference: S2W-25177
- Asked by: Bristow Muldoon, MSP for Livingston, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 11 April 2006
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Current status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 May 2006
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses in the social rented sector were sold under right to buy in each of the 32 local authority areas in (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005.
Answer
The numbers of local authoritydwellings sold to sitting tenants are accessible on-line through the data libraryin the publications and data section of the Scottish Executive housing statisticsbranch website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/housing/hsbref(sales to sitting tenants: table 4 (financial year to 2004-05) or table 6 (calendaryear to 2004)). Data for 2005 will be published on 23 May 2006.
The number of sales of registeredsocial landlord property are shown in the following table.
Sales of Registered SocialLandlord Property to Sitting Tenants
| Local Authority | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Aberdeen City | 28 | 25 | 26 |
| Aberdeenshire | 16 | 16 | 8 |
| Angus | 25 | 22 | 11 |
| Argyll and Bute | 7 | 5 | 6 |
| Clackmannanshire | 37 | 21 | 17 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 10 | 453 | 282 |
| Dundee City | 44 | 29 | 28 |
| East Ayrshire | 72 | 33 | 28 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 17 | 18 | 13 |
| East Lothian | 26 | 10 | 20 |
| East Renfrewshire | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 47 | 49 | 45 |
| Eilean Siar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Falkirk | 26 | 15 | 19 |
| Fife | 80 | 76 | 53 |
| Glasgow City | 288 | 1,626 | 1,101 |
| Highland | 47 | 49 | 39 |
| Inverclyde | 44 | 40 | 26 |
| Midlothian | 58 | 39 | 30 |
| Moray | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| North Ayrshire | 63 | 46 | 46 |
| North Lanarkshire | 81 | 68 | 75 |
| Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perth and Kinross | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Renfrewshire | 87 | 99 | 62 |
| Scottish Borders | 139 | 308 | 311 |
| Shetland Islands | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| South Ayrshire | 29 | 19 | 16 |
| South Lanarkshire | 32 | 37 | 35 |
| Stirling | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 42 | 37 | 46 |
| West Lothian | 44 | 33 | 28 |
| Rent to Mortgage | 101 |
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| Scotland | 1,508 | 3,188 | 2,380 |
Source: CommunitiesScotland.
Note: 1. Includesright to buy and rent to mortgage, except for 2002-03 where rent to mortgage salescannot be broken down by local authority area.