§ 72. Sir FREDERICK THOMSONasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what proportion of the total ex 1085 penditure of each education authority in Scotland the State grants formed in 1929–30; and what proportion they form under the draft regulations now upon the Table of the House?
Mr. W. ADAMSONAs the answer includes a large number of figures, I will, with the hon. and learned Member's permission, circulate it with the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the answer:
| GRANT payable under the Education Authorities (Scotland) Grant Regulations expressed as a percentage of the total expenditure of each Education Authority (excluding expenditure on Reformatory and Industrial Schools). | |||
| Education Authority. | 1929–30 | 1930–31(Estimated). | |
| Percent. | Percent. | ||
| Aberdeenshire | … | 66.84 | 70.21 |
| Angus | … | 54.04 | 58.71 |
| Argyll | … | 60.46 | 60.57 |
| Ayr | … | 49.27 | 51.19 |
| Banff | … | 67.88 | 70.18 |
| Berwick | … | 51.16 | 56.36 |
| Bute | … | 50.40 | 49.50 |
| Caithness | … | 67.83 | 68.71 |
| Clackmannan | … | 49.41 | 51.92 |
| Dunbarton | … | 51.71 | 53.05 |
| Dumfries | … | 55.70 | 60.23 |
| East Lothian | … | 49.98 | 50.46 |
| Fife | … | 51.66 | 53.61 |
| Inverness | … | 68.44 | 71.78 |
| Kincardine | … | 62.11 | 66.58 |
| Kirkcudbright | … | 53.24 | 58.80 |
| Lanark | … | 55.34 | 56.85 |
| Midlothian | … | 54.47 | 57.37 |
| Moray and Nairn | … | 62.15 | 65.49 |
| Orkney | … | 77.58 | 77.07 |
| Peebles | … | 46.13 | 50.70 |
| Perth and Kinross | … | 50.61 | 53.88 |
| Renfrewshire | … | 53.18 | 55.37 |
| Ross and Cromarty | … | 74.22 | 75.01 |
| Roxburgh | … | 50.43 | 54.10 |
| Selkirk | … | 52.23 | 55.73 |
| Stirling | … | 54.94 | 56.51 |
| Sutherland | … | 76.59 | 76.23 |
| West Lothian | … | 57.53 | 59.61 |
| Wigtown | … | 59.28 | 63.55 |
| Zetland | … | 86.59 | 86.82 |
| Burghs. | |||
| Aberdeen | 52.37 | 53.88 | |
| Dundee | … | 53.82 | 55.73 |
| Edinburgh | … | 41.05 | 44.03 |
| Glasgow | … | 42.81 | 40.21* |
| * This figure is exceptionally low, as the figure of expenditure available for 1930–31 includes—as a result of a change in the authority's accounting procedure—expenditure in respect of a period in excess of one year. |
§ NOTE.—In calculating the foregoing percentages no account has been taken of the agricultural rates grant for 1929–30, or of the grants payable for 1930–31 under Part III of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929. The total amount of the agricultural rates grant applied in reduction of the education rate in 1929–30 was £161,289. Grants under Part III of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, fall to be applied in relief of all expenditure chargeable to the consolidated rate and are not apportioned to the expenses of particular services.
§ The figures for the current year are based on estimates only, and those for 1929–30 are subject to correction on audit.