§ Sir John Gilmourasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the costs to each education authority in Scotland for transporting pupils to school for the last 12 months for which figures are available, and also showing the number of children so transported.
§ Mr. William Ross:The costs for the education authorities' financial year 12W 1973–74 were as follows. The numbers of children transported are not held centrally.
Education Authority £ Outturn Prices Aberdeen … 37,757 Dundee … 92,505 Edinburgh … 244,956 Glasgow … 362,074 Aberdeenshire … 410,172 Angus … 158,699 Argyll … 132,576 Ayr … 546,431 Banff … 108,300 Berwick … 77,566 Bute … 22,378 Caithness … 66,700 Clackmannan … 51,899 Dumfries … 172,923 Dunbarton … 228,060 East Lothian … 42,731 Fife … 303,222 Inverness … 186,500 Kincardine … 75,241 Kirkcudbright … 80,813 Lanark … 717,156 Midlothian … 146,282 Moray and Nairn … 101,792 Orkney … 61,521 Peebles … 37,425 Perth and Kinross … 270,277 Renfrew … 297,888 Ross and Cromarty … 164,085 Roxburgh … 83,823 Selkirk … 14,312 Stirling … 214,798 Sutherland … 86,509 West Lothian … 148,499 Wigtown … 83,452 Zetland … 69,042 Total 5,898,364