§ Sir WALTER MENZIESasked the Lord Advocate whether he can give the valuation and expenditure per head of the population of each of the thirty-eight secondary education districts based on the Census Returns for 1911?
§ Mr. UREI beg to refer the hon. Member to the table contained in the answer to a question by the hon. Member for North-West Lanark. From the figures given therein those desired are easily deducible.
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Secondary Education Committee. *Population. Expenditure. Valuation. Gross. Gross, less deductions under Agricultural Rates (Scotland) Act, 1896. Counties— £ £ £ Aberdeen (excluding Burgh 1,59,693 125,920 1,082,579 759,127 Argyll 71,463 67,287 564,490 481,919 Ayr 267,073 208,970 1,778,071 1,564,465 Banff 61,683 48,066 282,322 210,988 Berwick 29,918 23,418 316,573 198,986 Bute 18,186 13,012 161,333 146,456 Caithness 32,008 28,782 145,030 109,103 Clackmannan 31,001 32,084 174,994 167,762 Dumbarton 139,949 113,875 894,200 868,162 Dumfries 72,824 64,870 607,927 440,568 Edinburgh (excluding City and Leith 106,029 75,700 822,565 729,238 Elgin 43,146 37,252 262,361 217,812 Fife and Kinross 274,971 207,782 1,699,829 1,552,162 Forfar (excluding Dundee) 116,413 97,725 874,583 737,217 Haddington 43,253 31,879 388,515 323,006 Inverness 87,267 69,097 482,929 427,107 Kincardine 29,580 23,760 245,968 193,573 Kirkcudbright 38,457 30,666 349,191 241,242 Lanark (excluding Glasgow and Govan) 505,989 434,197 2,774,893 2,609,263 Linlithgow 80,285 61,675 521,154 482,860 Nairn 8,760 7,223 55,440 47,944 Orkney 25,896 16,557 83,260 58,872 Peebles 15,229 13,758 187,989 156,176 Perth 124,962 107,057 1,189,894 968,199 Renfrew 353,324 261,032 2,146,736 2,106,518 Ross and Cromarty 77,353 58,625 304,467 239,953 Roxburgh 46,917 35,021 439,408 319,679 Selkirk 24,629 27,790 163,560 138,441 Shetland 27,911 15,901 62,633 51,593 Stirling 160,673 136,650 966,748 906,784 Sutherland 20,180 18,783 100,000 81,913 Wigtown 31,896 24,711 244,153 159,324 School Board Burghs— Edinburgh 320,315 324,229 3,312,667 3,299,061 Glasgow 665,127 536,812 4,918,749 4,907,113 Aberdeen 163,084 164,768 912,021 907,754 Dundee 165,006 128,488 952,883 952,779 Leith 80,489 71,990 589,091 588,064 Govan School Board Parish 238,506 189,068 1,639,145 1,637,010 * These figures were supplied provisionally by the Registrar-General for Scotland.
§ Mr. PRINGLEasked the Lord Advocate whether he can give the separate factors of distribution upon which the Scottish Education Department has based Column 3 B of the table appended to the minute providing for the allocation of the balance of the Scottish Education Fund, dated 1st August and laid upon the Table on 7th August?
§ Mr. UREThe factors of distribution upon which the amounts in Column 3 B of the Table appended to the Minute of 1st August, 1911, are based, are shown in the following Table:—