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Question reference: S1W-00482

Date lodged: 8 July 1999
Current status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 July 1999

Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the level of investment required to bring housing up to a modern standard in (a) the social rented sector, (b) the private rented sector, and (c) the owner occupied sector.

Answer

The 1996 Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS) estimated that the minimum cost to repair and bring all occupied dwellings up to a fully modernised standard, including tackling Below Tolerable Standard dwellings, would be:

£2,264 million in the social rented sector;

£921 million in the private rented sector; and

£4,373 million in the owner occupied sector

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