§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how much of the additional money provided by the increased charges for school meals and the savings made by the abolition of free milk for primary school children he intends to devote to increased provision of primary schools.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellDecisions relating to public expenditure as a whole have made it possible for me to add to the 1972–73 school building programme £4½ millions for primary school improvements and to announce a programme of £7 million a year for each of the three years 1973–74 to 1975–76.
1968 Number of meals Number of meals expressed as percentage of number of pupils present Education Authority Paid Free Total Paid Free Total Free meals as percentage of total meals BURGHS Aberdeen … … 5,231 1,102 6,333 19.5 4.1 23.6 17.4 Dundee … … 9,338 2,277 11,615 32.6 7.9 40.5 19.6 Edinburgh … … 21,277 6,013 27,290 36.5 10.3 46.8 22.0 Glasgow … … 45,837 20,214 66,051 33.4 14.7 48.1 30.6 COUNTIES Aberdeen … … 11,816 516 12,332 56.1 2.5 58.6 4.2 Angus … … 4,920 355 5,275 35.8 2.6 38.4 6.7 Argyll … … 4,111 270 4,381 58.0 3.8 61.8 6.2 Ayr … … 21,795 3,709 25,504 42.0 7.1 49.1 14.5 Banff … … 2,880 391 3,271 41.3 5.6 46.9 12.0 Berwick … … 1,562 160 1,722 60.5 6.2 66.7 9.3 Bute … … 689 87 776 47.0 5.9 52.9 11.2 Caithness … … 1,607 439 2,046 31.8 8.7 40.5 21.5 Clackmannan … … 2,187 523 2,710 30.2 7.2 37.4 19.3 Dumfries … … 6,029 1,481 7,510 46.9 11.5 58.4 19.7 Dunbarton … … 15,691 1,335 17,026 44.2 3.8 48.0 7.8 East Lothian … … 3,045 281 3,326 36.5 3.4 39.9 8.5 Fife … … 20,531 3,803 24,334 42.2 7.8 50.0 15.6 Inverness … … 6,850 1,320 8,170 48.2 9.3 57.5 16.2 Kincardine … … 2,166 106 2,272 55.7 2.7 58.4 4.7 Kirkcudbright … … 3,010 245 3,255 75.7 6.2 81.9 7.5 Lanark … … 41,526 7,076 48,602 42.8 7.3 50.1 14.6 Midlothian … … 8,396 1,068 9,464 43.5 5.5 49.0 11.3 Moray and Nairn … 3,934 436 4,370 41.1 4.6 45.7 10.0 Orkney … … 1,631 104 1,735 59.9 3.8 63.7 6.0 Peebles … … 741 73 814 46.0 4.5 50.5 9.0 Perth and Kinross … 9,271 1,037 10,308 51.1 5.7 56.8 10.1 Renfrew … … 25,637 4,982 30,619 44.9 8.7 53.6 16.3 Ross and Cromarty … 4,990 1,513 6,503 53.4 16.2 69.6 23.3 Roxburgh … … 2,248 313 2,561 38.4 5.3 43.8 12.2 Selkirk … … 849 133 982 28.6 4.5 33.1 13.5 Stirling … … 10,975 1,644 12,619 35.4 5.3 40.7 13.0 Sutherland … … 1,680 123 1,803 77.4 5.7 83.1 6.8 West Lothian … 5,925 1,191 7,116 34.9 7.0 41.9 16.7 Wigtown … … 3,011 613 3,624 60.1 12.2 72.3 16.9 Zetland … … 1,735 96 1,831 69.3 3.8 73.1 5.2 Total (Scotland) … … 313,121 65,029 378,150 40.3 8.4 48.7 17.2