§ Ms. ArmstrongTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the figures for 1991 for the percentage of under-fives in(a) nursery schools, (b) nursery classes, (c) infant classes and (d) in total, by local education authority in Scotland, in rank order.
§ Mr. Michael Forsyth[holding answer 31 January 1992]: Provisional information from the 1991 school census on the number and percentage of pupils in nursery schools and departments in Scotland is as follows. The school census does not collect a separate breakdown of pupils into nursery schools, nursery classes and infant classes.
Pupils in Education Authority Nursery Schools/Departments at September 1991 by Education Authority Area as a percentage of the estimated three and four-year-old age group Number of pupils Percentage of three and four year olds Fife 4,650 50.4 Lothian 8,800 47.8 Central 2,762 41.9 Shetland 241 36.1 Tayside 3,422 35.2 Strathclyde 19,221 31.4 Grampian 3,985 20.7 Dumfries and Galloway 835 23.6 Borders 489 20.3 Orkney 92 18.4 Highland 849 15.8 Western Isles 0 0.0 Scotland 45,346 34.5