§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how much money is expended in Scotland to teach children and adults to swim; how many swimming baths there are in Scotland; if he will break down the total number into counties; and how many paid full-time and part-time teachers of swimming, respectively, are in public employment in each county of Scotland.
§ Mr. RossIt is not possible to isolate expenditure on swimming instruction from expenditure on education and 281W recreation generally, and separate details of the numbers of persons engaged in giving swimming instruction are not collected.
The table below gives details by counties of the 76 public indoor swimming baths known to my Department and of the 41 indoor baths completed in schools since January, 1963. A further 33 school baths are at an advanced stage of planning or are under construction. Figures for outdoor public baths and for older baths it schools are not available.
Indoor Swimming Baths in Schools completed since January, 1963 Public Indoor Swimming Baths CITIES Aberdeen 1 2 Dundee 2 3 (in 1 establishment) Edinburgh 4 6 Glasgow 13 23 (in 17 establishments) COUNTIES Aberdeen 1 2 Angus — 2 Argyll — 1 Ayr — 1 Banff — — Berwick — — Bute — 1 Caithness 1 1 Clackmannan — 2 Dumfries — 1 Dunbarton 3 3 East Lothian — — Fife 4 1 Inverness 1 1 Kincardine — — Kirkcudbright — — Lanark — 10 Midlothian 4 1 Moray and Nairn 1 2 Orkney — — Peebles — 1 Perth and Kinross 1 2 Renfrew 1 6 (3 baths in one establishment at Paisley) Ross and Cromarty — — Roxburgh — 2 Selkirk — 1 Stirling 1 1 Sutherland — — West Lothian 2 1 Wigtown 1 — Zetland — — Total 41 76