Chamber and committees

Question reference: S1W-25840

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: 13 May 2002
Current status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 27 May 2002

Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to record the (a) level of evictions for all types of tenure and (b) grounds for each eviction in order to facilitate policy analysis and whether any information so recorded will be published on an annual basis.

Answer

The following information is collected about evictions in each of the two main social rented tenures:

Tenure	Information Collected	Frequency of Collection	Data Collected Since:	Latest Available
Rented from Council	Total number of evictionsNumber of evictions on the grounds of anti-social behaviour	Quarterly	Both from the quarter April-June 2001	July-September 2001
Rented from Registered Social Landlords	Total number of evictionsNumber of evictions on the grounds of anti-social behaviourNumber of evictions for non-payment of rent	Annually	The first since year to March 1999The others will be collected from 2001-02	For total evictions:Year to 31 March 2001

Information on evictions of private sector tenants is not collected centrally and we have no plans do to so.The latest available information on evictions in the local authority sector was published in the Scottish Executive Quarterly Housing Trends Bulletin HSG/2002/1, which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (publication date 26 March 2002, Bib. number 20348). Information on evictions by Registered Social Landlords is held by Communities Scotland.In deciding on the regular statistical information to gather, maintain and publish centrally, the Executive consults regularly with suppliers and users of our statistics through established statistical liaison arrangements, and consultation on the annual Scottish Executive Statistics Plan.

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