Question reference: S6W-20664
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 15 August 2023 Registered interest
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Current status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 4 September 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how many homes there are in each parliamentary region, including a breakdown of how many homes have an EPC rating below grade C.
Answer
This information is not available in the form requested.
The Scottish Government does not produce counts of homes by parliamentary region.
The number of households and dwellings in each parliamentary constituency is published by the National Records of Scotland, with the latest available estimate dating from 2022. This is available at: Scottish Parliamentary Constituency .
The Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS) provides estimates of the number of homes which have an EPC rating below band C.
The SHCS survey has not been designed to provide results by Parliamentary Region, however results are available by Local Authority area.
The Scottish Government publishes local authority analysis using a three year pooled data set to ensure sufficient sample sizes. The most recent estimates of homes with an EPC below C at local authority level are for 2017-2019, and are presented in the following table.
Number of dwellings by Local Authority and the number and percentage which have an EPC rating below C. | |||||
Local Authority | Total number of households / occupied dwellings | Of which EPC rated below C | % rated below EPC C | Sample | |
Aberdeen City | 108,000 | 57,000 | 53% | 248 | |
Aberdeenshire | 111,000 | 74,000 | 66% | 245 | |
Angus | 54,000 | 38,000 | 71% | 257 | |
Argyll and Bute | 42,000 | 29,000 | 71% | 232 | |
Clackmannanshire | 24,000 | 10,000 | 41% | 220 | |
Dumfries and Galloway | 70,000 | 53,000 | 76% | 270 | |
Dundee City | 70,000 | 41,000 | 59% | 256 | |
East Ayrshire | 55,000 | 29,000 | 53% | 252 | |
East Dunbartonshire | 46,000 | 27,000 | 58% | 253 | |
East Lothian | 46,000 | 28,000 | 60% | 238 | |
East Renfrewshire | 39,000 | 24,000 | 60% | 233 | |
Edinburgh, City of | 236,000 | 115,000 | 49% | 613 | |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | 13,000 | 12,000 | 91% | 273 | |
Falkirk | 72,000 | 33,000 | 46% | 251 | |
Fife | 168,000 | 95,000 | 57% | 443 | |
Glasgow City | 293,000 | 128,000 | 44% | 644 | |
Highland | 109,000 | 82,000 | 75% | 261 | |
Inverclyde | 38,000 | 19,000 | 50% | 219 | |
Midlothian | 39,000 | 19,000 | 49% | 275 | |
Moray | 43,000 | 30,000 | 70% | 206 | |
North Ayrshire | 64,000 | 37,000 | 58% | 227 | |
North Lanarkshire | 152,000 | 68,000 | 45% | 335 | |
Orkney Islands | 10,000 | 9,000 | 85% | 265 | |
Perth and Kinross | 68,000 | 45,000 | 66% | 262 | |
Renfrewshire | 86,000 | 36,000 | 42% | 190 | |
Scottish Borders | 54,000 | 36,000 | 65% | 213 | |
Shetland Islands | 10,000 | 10,000 | 92% | 274 | |
South Ayrshire | 52,000 | 34,000 | 65% | 236 | |
South Lanarkshire | 146,000 | 82,000 | 56% | 329 | |
Stirling | 39,000 | 23,000 | 59% | 246 | |
West Dunbartonshire | 43,000 | 21,000 | 49% | 229 | |
West Lothian | 78,000 | 30,000 | 39% | 268 | |
Scotland | 2,479,000 | 1,374,000 | 55% | 8,963 | |
Notes 1. Source Scottish House Condition Survey 2017-19. 2. EPC figures are based on SAPv9.92 3. The SHCS is a sample survey and therefore all figures are estimates which lie at the midpoint of a confidence interval which depends primarily on sample size. A statistical tool for calculating 95% confidence intervals around these estimates can be found at Scottish House Condition Survey: Local Authority Analysis 2017-2019 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) . 4. The national rate shown in this answer (55%) is an average over 2017-19 to match the local authority data and will differ from that found in the main SHCS Key Findings report (53%) which relates to a single year, most recently 2019. Available at Scottish house condition survey: 2019 key findings | |||||
As set out in the most recent Scottish House Condition Survey 2021 Key Findings Report, (available at Scottish House Condition Survey 2021 ) there will be no Local Authority publication relating to the 2019 to 2021 three year period as the 2020 SHCS was suspended due to Covid-19 and the 2021 SHCS was undertaken using a different methodology that is not consistent to previous years.