Current status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 15 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-26978 by Paul McLennan on 7 May 2024, how (a) much funding has been spent through the National Acquisition Programme and (b) many social homes have been delivered in each local authority area in each year since it was first announced in June 2023.
The National Acquisition Programme was announced in June 2023 to support the purchase of existing homes for use as affordable housing. Initially, £60 million was allocated for 2023-2024 to be delivered through local authority Resource Planning Assumptions. The spend and homes delivered for 2023-2024 is outlined in Table 1 the figures for social rent are a subset of the total.
Table 1 – 2023-2024 Acquisitions
Local Authority Area | Total Spend (£m) | Total Homes Delivered | Total Social Rent |
Aberdeen City | 4.234 | 126 | 100 |
Aberdeenshire | 1.131 | 16 | 10 |
Angus | 1.846 | 26 | 26 |
Argyll & Bute | 0.182 | 1 | 1 |
City of Edinburgh | 9.027 | 138 | 138 |
Clackmannanshire | 1.974 | 57 | 57 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 0.035 | 1 | 1 |
Dundee City | 0.520 | 13 | 13 |
East Ayrshire | 0.925 | 30 | 30 |
East Dunbartonshire | 2.964 | 21 | 21 |
East Lothian | 0.186 | 34 | 34 |
East Renfrewshire | 0.248 | 6 | 6 |
Falkirk | 3.150 | 70 | 70 |
Fife | 2.970 | 57 | 57 |
Glasgow City | 17.069 | 176 | 167 |
Inverclyde | 0.537 | 33 | 33 |
Midlothian | 0.195 | 38 | 38 |
Moray | 0.042 | 1 | 1 |
naEilean Siar | 0.000 | 0 | 0 |
North Ayrshire | 2.417 | 7 | 7 |
North Lanarkshire | 7.972 | 110 | 110 |
Orkney Islands | 0.000 | 0 | 0 |
Perth & Kinross | 2.497 | 59 | 47 |
Renfrewshire | 0.897 | 27 | 27 |
Scottish Borders | 1.450 | 22 | 17 |
Shetland Islands | 0.228 | 3 | 3 |
South Ayrshire | 1.455 | 37 | 37 |
South Lanarkshire | 9.723 | 202 | 202 |
Stirling | 1.450 | 37 | 37 |
The Highland Council | 3.932 | 65 | 38 |
West Dunbartonshire | 3.890 | 41 | 41 |
West Lothian | 0.000 | 45 | 45 |
Total | 83.146 | 1499 | 1414 |
In 2024-2025, the approach to acquisitions evolved to include £80 million targeted funding for acquisitions and voids over two years(split evenly between 2024-25 and 2025-26)to help reduce homelessness. The following table shows the total spend on acquisitions, which includes this £40 million targeted element.
Table 2 – 2024-2025 Acquisitions
Local Authority Area | Total Spend (£m) | Total Homes Delivered | Of Which Social | £40m only spend | £40m only Homes | Of Which Social |
Aberdeen City | 3.128 | 58 | 58 | 0.375 | 12 | 12 |
Aberdeenshire | 0.580 | 8 | 8 | 0.173 | 3 | 3 |
Angus | 0.546 | 8 | 8 | 0.066 | 1 | 1 |
Argyll & Bute | 1.839 | 25 | 25 | 0.135 | 2 | 2 |
City of Edinburgh | 11.582 | 221 | 221 | 10.882 | 175 | 175 |
Clackmannanshire | 1.235 | 27 | 27 | 0.173 | 4 | 4 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 |
Dundee City | 2.552 | 37 | 37 | 0.637 | 7 | 7 |
East Ayrshire | 2.404 | 3 | 3 | 0.122 | 0 | 0 |
East Dunbartonshire | 2.128 | 41 | 41 | 0.222 | 2 | 2 |
East Lothian | 0.441 | 5 | 5 | 0.441 | 5 | 5 |
East Renfrewshire | 0.215 | 4 | 4 | 0.215 | 0 | 0 |
Falkirk | 2.910 | 54 | 54 | 0.751 | 17 | 17 |
Fife | 1.898 | 38 | 38 | 1.848 | 37 | 37 |
Glasgow City | 14.032 | 131 | 131 | 5.088 | 8 | 8 |
Inverclyde | 0.307 | 8 | 8 | 0.084 | 1 | 1 |
Midlothian | 1.013 | 10 | 10 | 0.472 | 7 | 7 |
Moray | 0.321 | 5 | 5 | 0.143 | 3 | 3 |
naEilean Siar | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 |
North Ayrshire | 0.475 | 36 | 36 | 0.097 | 0 | 0 |
North Lanarkshire | 13.759 | 191 | 191 | 0.673 | 0 | 0 |
Orkney Islands | 1.212 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 |
Perth & Kinross | 7.785 | 143 | 136 | 0.066 | 2 | 2 |
Renfrewshire | 2.266 | 26 | 26 | 0.388 | 5 | 5 |
Scottish Borders | 0.840 | 14 | 11 | 0.146 | 3 | 3 |
Shetland Islands | 0.040 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 |
South Ayrshire | 0.758 | 0 | 0 | 0.301 | 0 | 0 |
South Lanarkshire | 7.363 | 134 | 134 | 1.724 | 27 | 27 |
Stirling | 0.928 | 30 | 30 | 0.750 | 13 | 13 |
The Highland Council | 2.263 | 23 | 9 | 0.270 | 5 | 4 |
West Dunbartonshire | 0.562 | 43 | 43 | 0.342 | 4 | 4 |
West Lothian | 1.602 | 25 | 25 | 1.602 | 25 | 25 |
Total | 86.984 | 1348 | 1324 | 28.186 | 368 | 367 |
For 2025-2026, this targeted funding for acquisitions and voids was doubled in September 2025 taking the targeted funding component to £80m. Given the 2025-2026 programme has not concluded, figures relating to spend and homes on acquisitions for 2025-2026 are not yet available but the spend and total of home delivered in the first quarter only of the financial year(1 Apr – 30 June)are outlined in Table 3.
Table 3 – 2025-2026 Acquisitions – 1st Quarter
Local Authority Area | Total Spend (£m) | Total Homes Delivered | Of Which Social | £80m only spend | £80m only Homes | Of Which Social |
Aberdeen City | 8 | 8 | ||||
Aberdeenshire | ||||||
Angus | ||||||
Argyll & Bute | ||||||
City of Edinburgh | ||||||
Clackmannanshire | ||||||
Dumfries & Galloway | ||||||
Dundee City | ||||||
East Ayrshire | 0.050 | |||||
East Dunbartonshire | ||||||
East Lothian | ||||||
East Renfrewshire | ||||||
Falkirk | ||||||
Fife | 0.050 | |||||
Glasgow City | 0.068 | 21 | 21 | |||
Inverclyde | ||||||
Midlothian | ||||||
Moray | ||||||
North Ayrshire | 0.040 | 3 | 3 | 0.040 | 1 | 1 |
North Lanarkshire | 1.180 | |||||
Orkney | 0.140 | 1 | 1 | 0.140 | 1 | 1 |
Perth & Kinross | ||||||
Renfrewshire | ||||||
Scottish Borders | ||||||
Shetland Islands | ||||||
South Ayrshire | 0.490 | |||||
South Lanarkshire | ||||||
Stirling | ||||||
The Highland Council | 1.903 | 23 | 15 | 1.317 | 15 | 15 |
West Dunbartonshire | ||||||
West Lothian | ||||||
Total | 3.921 | 56 | 48 | 1.497 | 17 | 17 |
Due to the way the Affordable Housing Supply Programme operates, grant payments can be drawn down across multiple financial years. As a result, expenditure in any given year does not necessarily correspond to the number of homes completed in that same year, as homes are only recorded as complete once the entire project has concluded.
You can find more information on Resource Planning Assumptions for council areas here.
We will continue to provide updates on delivery through the Affordable Housing Supply Programmeas part of published quarterly statistics.