§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Scotland of the gross expenditure on health and welfare services in Great Britain of £5,382 million in the four years to 31st March, 1968 and £4,174 million in the four years to 31st March, 1964, what proportion of each of these sums was spent in Scotland.
§ Mr. RossGross expenditure in the four years to 31st March, 1968, was in fact £5,832 million. Of this, £614 million
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 * Primary—Education Authority Schools 33.0 32.7 32.8 32.8 32.9 32.9 33.0 32.9 32.8 * Primary—Grant-Aided Schools 28.7 28.8 28.8 27.7 27.8 27.4 28.9 29.5 29.8 †Secondary—Education Authority Schools 20.9 20.9 20.3 19.5 19.1 18.9 19.1 19.1 19.4 †Secondary—Grant-Aided Schools 18.9 18.7 18.6 17.9 18.9 19.4 19.2 17.6 17.7 * Excludes special and nursery classes and special and nursery pupils. † Includes practical and non.practical classes, but excludes special classes. For the sake of comparability the average class sizes given in the table have all been calculated by dividing the total number of pupils (including pupils engaged in private study at the time of the census) by the total number of classes.