Operation of the Homeless Persons Legislation in Scotland: National and Local Authority Analyses 2002-03

Statistical Bulletin HSG/2003/5
Operation of the Homeless Persons Legislation in Scotland: National and Local Authority Analyses 2002-03

Applications from single person households assessed as priority homeless by local authority area: 1996-97 to 2002-03

Table 12

	1996-97			1997-98			1998-99			1999-00			2000-01			2002-03 ¹
	All	Priority homeless		All	Priority homeless		All	Priority homeless		All	Priority homeless		All	Priority homeless		All	Priority homeless
	All	Number	%	All	Number	%	All	Number	%	All	Number	%	All	Number	%	All	Number	%
Scotland	23,800	5,900	25	25,700	6,700	26	27,600	7,700	28	28,300	9,600	34	28,800	10,500	36	33,509	15,764	47
Aberdeen City	1,210	310	25	1,130	290	26	1,180	280	24	1,190	390	33	1,130	400	36	1,117	375	34
Aberdeenshire	640	230	36	600	230	39	610	250	40	640	240	37	650	210	32	672	227	34
Angus	430	100	23	460	110	25	580	120	20	650	80	12	450	80	18	670	179	27
Argyll & Bute	270	110	42	230	100	44	200	90	46	210	90	44	220	110	49	459	201	44
Clackmannanshire	260	50	18	300	60	20	260	70	28	290	100	34	300	130	43	550	95	17
Dumfries & Galloway	560	130	23	650	180	28	610	140	23	800	170	22	780	180	23	1,045	326	31
Dundee City	500	160	32	560	180	33	500	180	35	550	200	37	420	190	46	540	157	29
East Ayrshire	310	70	23	450	120	27	490	130	27	380	80	22	430	120	28	617	198	32
East Dunbartonshire	190	80	43	190	60	30	150	80	49	160	80	51	170	70	39	273	79	29
East Lothian	520	50	10	570	60	10	450	60	14	450	90	20	460	100	21	475	158	33
East Renfrewshire	120	40	29	130	60	44	100	30	27	190	80	43	190	40	22	213	52	24
Edinburgh, City of	1,770	1,040	59	2,140	1,130	53	2,480	1,220	49	2,590	1,250	48	2,770	1,240	45	3,344	1,735	52
Eilean Siar	100	30	26	100	20	18	110	20	20	70	10	16	90	20	23	112	31	28
Falkirk	480	80	17	600	90	15	610	80	12	810	200	25	860	230	26	881	142	16
Fife	1,170	290	25	1,560	320	20	1,640	350	21	1,930	460	24	1,730	430	25	2,064	510	25
Glasgow City	8,910	1,440	16	8,500	1,390	16	10,810	2,260	21	9,200	3,360	37	9,070	3,870	43	9,872	7,455	76
Highland	370	140	38	400	150	39	400	180	46	320	130	40	490	180	38	797	257	32
Inverclyde	120	90	78	230	140	61	280	120	43	240	130	55	300	150	49	463	188	41
Midlothian	250	60	22	210	70	33	220	80	38	190	70	39	160	60	41	217	100	46
Moray	130	30	22	210	60	27	130	30	26	100	30	33	160	90	52	329	166	50
North Ayrshire	350	60	17	520	100	19	550	120	21	730	170	24	650	210	32	1,236	542	44
North Lanarkshire	1,240	220	18	1,130	190	17	1,340	280	21	1,200	280	23	1,120	220	20	1,623	510	31
Orkney	50	30	52	50	20	47	70	30	36	80	20	28	70	30	43	86	16	19
Perth & Kinross	140	90	61	140	90	64	200	100	51	320	120	37	450	140	32	641	223	35
Renfrewshire	360	150	41	310	130	41	360	180	52	320	230	70	480	330	68	546	224	41
Scottish Borders, The	410	60	16	380	100	27	280	110	39	290	140	50	280	130	46	344	133	39
Shetland	140	30	20	100	30	33	60	30	47	70	30	38	100	30	28	110	28	25
South Ayrshire	550	190	34	550	190	34	760	240	32	810	200	25	780	190	24	633	120	19
South Lanarkshire	980	240	25	1,110	250	23	1,170	340	29	1,130	340	30	1,010	280	28	1,360	448	33
Stirling	490	170	34	580	190	34	550	160	29	590	170	28	500	130	27	531	129	24
West Dunbartonshire	360	90	26	240	110	45	250	120	47	640	130	21	570	120	21	792	314	40
West Lothian	570	150	27	630	270	43	940	370	39	1,000	390	39	890	400	45	897	446	50

Notes: 2001-02 data on assessments and household type not included due to outstanding HL1 returns from the previous paper-based data collection system. This will be updated once the dataset has been finalised. Data prior to December 2001 may be estimated: refer to section 5.

1. Percentages for 2002-03 data are based on applications made during period, including lost contact/withdrawal/resolved prior to assessment and cases which have not been assessed yet. For applications made in 2002-03, there were 2,216 cases of single person households which had not been assessed.

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