Scottish Transport Statistics No 29: 2010 Edition

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Table 1.21 Number of Blue badges 4 on issue at 31 March 2010

Council

Badges on issue to institutions

Badges on issue to individuals

Not known

Total

Automatic 1

Discretionary 2

Other reasons 3

Aberdeen City

112

3,229

4,971

1

8,313

Aberdeenshire

116

11,485

3,997

3

15,601

Angus

132

2,368

3,491

5,991

Argyll & Bute

98

1,986

2,742

2

4,828

Clackmannanshire

27

1,024

1,388

2,439

Dumfries & Galloway

55

2,519

4,154

6

6,734

Dundee City

92

3,120

2,873

1

6,086

East Ayrshire

36

3,016

3,891

33

6,976

East Dunbartonshire

73

2,069

3,279

5,421

East Lothian

20

2,277

2,854

42

5,193

East Renfrewshire

18

1,475

2,776

4,269

Edinburgh, City of

264

8,646

13,183

22,093

Eilean Siar

3

2

31

36

Falkirk

74

3,726

5,356

9,156

Fife

452

9,960

11,631

2

22,045

Glasgow, City of

314

13,933

9,460

822

24,529

Highland

119

2,891

5,206

8,216

Inverclyde

140

2,176

2,807

5,123

Midlothian

112

2,055

2,510

4,677

Moray

47

1,910

2,671

4,628

North Ayrshire

121

5,701

3,874

9,696

North Lanarkshire

78

8,757

10,969

19,804

Orkney Islands

28

321

867

1,216

Perth & Kinross

85

2,762

4,784

7,631

Renfrewshire

56

7,849

856

8,761

Scottish Borders

846

3,603

6,373

10,822

Shetland Islands

24

312

496

832

South Ayrshire

50

1,906

3,901

5,857

South Lanarkshire

102

9,721

8,418

18,241

Stirling

..

..

..

..

4,582

West Dunbartonshire

102

2,549

2,128

2

4,781

West Lothian

70

5,952

2,002

1,482

9,506

Total

3,866

129,300

133,939

2,391

5

274,083

Source: Scottish Government - Not National Statistics
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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