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Written Question · S2W-27385 · Session 2

How many houses in each local authority area are of (a) cavity wall, (b) solid wall and (c) timber frame construction.

Answered Asked by Brian Adam SNP Lodged 14 Jul 2006

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses in each local authority area are of (a) cavity wall, (b) solid wall and (c) timber frame construction.

The answer

Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 Aug 2006 · 24 days after it was lodged, on time

The most reliable estimates of the number of houses in each local authority area of (a) cavity wall, (b) solidwall and (c) timber frame construction are taken from the Scottish House ConditionSurvey 2002. The estimates are provided in the following tables.
Table (a)
Number and Percentage ofHouses in Each Local Authority with Cavity Walls

|
| 95% Confidence Interval
|
| 95% Confidence Interval

Estimate
| Lower
| Upper
| %
| Lower
| Upper

Aberdeen City
| 37,000
| 35,000
| 40,000
| 78
| 73
| 83

Aberdeenshire
| 50,000
| 47,000
| 54,000
| 64
| 60
| 69

Angus
| 27,000
| 25,000
| 29,000
| 77
| 71
| 81

Argyll and Bute
| 19,000
| 17,000
| 21,000
| 72
| 66
| 77

Borders
| 19,000
| 18,000
| 21,000
| 64
| 58
| 69

Clackmannan
| 12,000
| 12,000
| 13,000
| 82
| 78
| 86

Dumfries and Galloway
| 36,000
| 34,000
| 39,000
| 67
| 62
| 72

Dundee Cit

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