§ Lieut.-Colonel Elliotasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will make available to Parliament tables showing the following data in respect of every county and large burgh in Scotland; the addition to population credited in respect of sparsity; the addition to population credited in respect of children under the Local Government Bill now before Parliament; and the corresponding weightings under the Local Government (Scotland) Acts, 1929 to 1946.
§ Mr. WoodburnThe following tables give the information desired:
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Authority. Under Local Government Bill Estimated Weighting for Under existing Acts Weighting for (a) Sparsity. (b) Children under 15. (a) Sparsity. (b) Children under 5. COUNTIES. Aberdeen … 6,558 39,083 321,030 119,937 Angus … — 17,588 115,873 27,799 Argyll … 11,378 15,089 123,202 20,998 Ayr … — 58,601 256,933 144,925 Banff … 161 14,476 130,506 42,541 Berwick … 5,613 5,600 45,975 5,871 Bute … — 5,315 14,547 3,849 Caithness … 1,201 6,247 66,260 16,828 Clackmannan … — 8,704 14,187 14,356 Dumfries … 6,002 14,277 116,938 32,748 Dunbarton … — 21,601 42,106 31,507 East Lothian … — 12,518 72,043 31,718 Fife … — 50,021 136,350 120,938 Inverness … 19,119 15,721 144,285 26,780 Kincardine … 3,058 6,850 52,728 16,955 Kirkcudbright … 8,329 7,992 67,603 22,171 Lanark … — 83,861 276,333 246,454 Midlothian … — 22,810 77,256 55,847 Moray and Nairn … — 13,530 96,505 33,100 Orkney … 2,001 5,071 42,910 7,569 Peebles … 13 3,137 17,053 2,734 Perth and Kinross … 4,617 22,371 140,846 33,436 Renfrew … — 30,740 53,392 36,546 Ross and Cromarty … 6,262 14,315 151,006 23,926 Roxburgh … 1,736 9,242 78,338 15,622 Selkirk … — 4,191 23,880 2,821 Stirling … — 29,643 98,575 78,020 Sutherland … 11,356 3,318 35,961 5,690 West Lothian … — 22,901 59,376 68,299 Wigtown … 2,390 8,369 65,867 23,567 Zetland … 3,917 4,024 45,823 4,919 TOTAL COUNTIES … 93,711 577,206 2,983,687 1,318,471 TOTAL LARGE BURGHS … — 655,670 — 1,800,605 TOTAL SCOTLAND … 93,711 1,232,876 2,983,687 3,119,076