§ Mrs. Margaret EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in theOfficial Report the total number of placement requests made by parents in the last academic year in each regional and divisional education authority; and if he will list these as a percentage of the relevant school rolls.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe provisional numbers of placing requests received between August 1987 and July 1988 for education authority primary, secondary and special schools and these numbers expressed as percentages of the school rolls at September 1987 are given in the table below.
Requests received Requests as percentage of rolls Borders 136 0.9 Central 973 2.3 Dumfries and Galloway 491 2.2 Fife 1,570 2.9 Grampian 2,366 3.1 Highland 441 1.3 Lothian 3,813 3.9 Strathclyde 11,935 3.3 Tayside 2,194 4.0 Orkney 6 0.2 Shetland 25 0.6 Western Isles 98 1.8 All Scotland 24,048 3.1 Argyll and Bute 160 1.6 Ayr 1,542 2.6 Dunbarton 1,986 3.7 Glasgow (city) 4,275 4.5 Lanark 1,868 2.2 Renfrew 2,104 3.7
§ Mrs. Margaret EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in theOfficial Report the number of primary and secondary schools in each regional and divisional education authority which were the subject of placing requests in the last academic year.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe information requested is not available centrally.