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Written question asked by Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat), in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 20 March 1997. It was answered by Raymond Robertson (Conservative) on Thursday, 20 March 1997 on behalf of the Scottish Office.

Scottish Office

Question
If he will list the number of houses built in the constituencies of Roxburgh and Berwickshire and Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available broken down into different kinds of tenure, and indicating how many were built by (a) local authorities, (b) housing associations and (c) other social rented sector providers. - Includes table.
Answer

Mr. Kirkwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of houses built in the constituencies of Roxburgh and Berwickshire and Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available broken down into different kinds of tenure, and indicating how many were built by (a) local authorities, (b) housing associations and (c) other social rented sector providers. [21540] Mr. Raymond S. Robertson: The available information, which relates to local authorities and not to parliamentary constituencies, is set out in the table. Information by tenure is not available. New dwellings completed, 1986 to 1995 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Berwickshire Ettrick and Lauderdale Roxburgh Tweeddale _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (a) by local authorities _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1986 22 -- 8 -- 1987 17 -- 4 6 1988 -- -- 28 54 1989 31 -- 18 4 1990 -- -- -- 8 1991 29 14 -- 6 1992 -- 6 -- 6 1993 19 4 -- -- 1994 -- -- -- -- 1995 14 2 -- -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (b) by housing associations _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1986 12 -- -- 30 1987 -- 38 26 -- 1988 9 -- 15 33 1989 12 26 33 -- 1990 -- -- -- -- 1991 6 4 66 32 1992 25 -- -- 6 1993 -- -- 20 34 1994 -- -- -- -- 1995 42 161 69 28 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (c) by private builders _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1986 15 51 32 45 1987 40 67 56 93 1988 29 60 30 38 1989 66 112 72 46 1990 69 203 131 124 1991 50 55 87 34 1992 46 77 54 23 1993 22 75 48 23 1994 19 99 41 61 1995 40 75 46 50 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
21540; 292 c747-8W;292 c747W
Session
1996-97
Subjects
Construction Housing Housing associations Local government Rented housing Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Contains statistics
Yes