§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT details showing for 1970 onwards the amount of capital investment for school building applied for by each local education authority, the amount he has approved for each authority and the total school population of each education authority, respectively.
§ Mr. RossI would refer my hon. Friend to my reply of 6th February, 1970 to the hon. Member for Perth and East Perthshire for the estimated costs of education authorities' proposals for the period 1970–72 and the allocations for the first part of the period. The latest available school population figures are as at January, 1969, and were given in my answer to my hon. Friend's Question on 21st July, 1969.—[Vol. 795, c.220–1; Vol. 787, c. 279.]