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Table 1.21 Number of Blue badges 4 on issue at 31 March 2007

Council

Badges on issue
to Institutions

Badges on issue to individuals

Not
Known

Total

Automatic 1

Discretionary 2

Other reasons 3

Aberdeen City

111

3,277

5,549

8,937

Aberdeenshire

121

3,565

7,196

1

10,883

Angus

129

2,342

2,882

5,353

Argyll & Bute

48

1,652

2,356

20

4,076

Clackmannanshire

19

1,315

1,286

2,620

Dumfries & Galloway

52

2,844

6,318

20

9,234

Dundee City

138

3,432

3,127

1

6,698

East Ayrshire

96

3,559

4,005

5

7,665

East Dunbartonshire

30

1,826

2,772

4,628

East Lothian

16

1,265

1,101

2,382

East Renfrewshire

7

737

1,012

1,756

Edinburgh, City of

450

7,245

9,942

17,637

Eilean Siar

15

277

549

841

Falkirk

45

3,487

4,609

8,141

Fife

478

9,785

10,713

20,976

Glasgow, City of

299

14,290

8,822

2

23,413

Highland

135

4,004

5,421

9,560

Inverclyde

115

2,031

2,224

1

4,371

Midlothian

96

2,159

2,142

4,397

Moray

39

1,778

2,472

4,289

North Ayrshire

..

4,018

3,022

111

7,151

North Lanarkshire

76

7,437

7,415

61

14,989

Orkney Islands

39

561

1,118

1,718

Perth & Kinross

242

2,540

4,701

3

7,486

Renfrewshire

63

6,135

2,246

8,444

Scottish Borders

112

2,494

3,645

5

6,256

Shetland Islands

17

281

434

732

South Ayrshire

44

1,951

3,747

5,742

South Lanarkshire

103

9,370

6,980

16,453

Stirling

..

..

..

3,658

West Dunbartonshire

36

2,088

1,582

34

3,740

West Lothian

68

5,972

2,728

8,768

Total

3,276

112,069

121,059

164

236,568

1. Badges issued in the automatic categories to recipients of mobility allowances, the higher rate of mobility component of Disability Living Allowance, Government issued cars or grants towards their own cars, War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement or to registered blind people.
2. Badges granted in the discretionary category to people with a permanent and substantial disability who are unable or nearly unable to walk.
3. Badges granted to drivers with a severe upper limb disability in both upper limbs who cannot turn a steering wheel by hand, missing or unavailable.
4. Blue Badges were introduced on 1 April 2000 and eventually replaced all orange bages at 31 March 2003.

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