What percentage of local authority and registered social landlord vacancies in 2003-04 were offered to households presenting as homeless un…

Section 5 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 allows a local authority to request that a registered social landlord provide accommodation for a homeless applicant who the local authority has a duty to house under the legislation. Local authorities submit a lettings return to the Scottish Executive giving the number of dwellings falling vacant during the quarter, permanent lettings made and permanent lettings to homeless households. Similar information is collected from registered social landlords by Communities Scotland through the Annual Performance and Statistical Return. The number of permanent lettings during a period tends to be lower than the number of dwellings falling vacant, and therefore, to provide a more meaningful comparison, lets to homeless households are presented as a proportion of all permanent lets.
The following tables show the percentage of permanent lets by local authorities to homeless households (Table 1) and the percentage of lets to homeless households by registered social landlords (Table 2).
Table 1 Permanent Lets to Homeless Households by Local Authority: 2003-04

| Total Permanent Lets
| Lets to Homeless Households
| Lets to Homeless as % of All Lets

Scotland
| 39,136
| 8,469
| 22

Aberdeen City
| 2,905
| 217
| 7

Aberdeenshire
| 1,522
| 226
| 15

Angus
| 972
| 247
| 25

Argyll and Bute
| 617
| 214
| 35

Clackmannanshire
| 487
| 172
| 35

Dumfries and Galloway
| na
| na
| na

Dundee City
| 2,533
| 209
| 8

East Ayrshire
| 1,663
| 225
| 14

East Dunbartonshire
| 350
| 131
| 37

East Lothian
| 440
| 123
| 28

East Renfrewshire
| 295
| 69
| 23

City of Edinburgh
| 3,178
| 742
| 23

Eilean Siar
| 202
| 59
| 29

Falkirk
| 1,733
| 434
| 25

Fife
| 3