§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many secondary schools currently have a computer; and what percentage of the total this represents.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneMy right hon. and learned Friend can provide information only in respect of microcomputers in secondary schools, and I refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave on 10 February to my hon. Friend the Member for Ripon (Dr. Hampson).—[Vol. 998, c. 321–22.]
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many schools in (a) Wolverhampton and (b) the West Midlands have a computer; and what percentage of the total this represents in each case.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneInquiries by Her Majesty's Inspectorate indicate that, at the beginning of the current school year, 19— 85.4 per cent.—of the maintained secondary schools in Wolverhampton had at least one micro-computer; for the West Midlands metropolitan area as a whole the corresponding figures were 160— 4.8 per cent.— My right hon. and learned Friend has no corresponding information in respect of other types of school or about access to other computer facilities.
District Authority Number of dwellings Number of public sector dwellings under construction at 31 December 1980 Number of private sector dwellings under construction at 31 December 1980 Number of house to be demolished in plan period Vacancy Rate Used New building requirement in plan period Number of households Projected number of households at end of plan period (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Berwickshire 8,277 40 24 — — — 6,770 7,010 Ettrick and Landerdale 14,096 41 53 — — — 11,800 12,550 Roxburgh 15,443 37 65 50 — — 15,496 16,087 Tweedale 6,270 19 38 1 — — 5,259 5,336 Clackmannan 17,792 — 94 50 3.5 1,100 18,000 18,390 Falkirk 53,009 285 273 500 4.0 2,900 52,850 53,330 Stirling 28,737 209 209 160 4.0 2,160 28,450 29,250 Annandalc and Eskdale 13,958 185 108 110 — 664 13,141 14,372 Nithsdale 21,650 38 128 36 — — 19,320 20,530 Stewartry 9,827 7 84 103 — 338 — — Wigtown 12,049 61 35 12 — 368 10,600 1,051 Dunfermline 46,615 32 320 100 4.0 3,348 45,102 46,490 Kirkcaldy 57,256 509 165 243 3.0 5,411 54,013 59,030 North East Fife 26,675 163 128 125 4.0 842 25,962 24,548 City of Aberdeen 82,451 549 481 500 2.2 7,100 79,070 87,068 Banff and Buchan 31,318 324 331 25 — 1,558 27,500 29,900 Gordon 24,081 43 302 — — 2,467 21,300 24,200 Kincardine and Deeside 16,513 26 317 — 8.9 1,830 15,130 16,200 Moray 31,205 215 95 250 5.3 2,464 27,940 29,660 Badenoch and Strathspey 4,383 20 111 — 22.5 457 3,140 3,330 Caithness 10,749 78 104 — 9.1 *500 — — Inverness 21,280 53 282 — 14.6 3,332 18,000 20,000