§ Mr. G. M. Thomsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state, for each year since 1948 in respect of each local authority area, how many children have been exempted from attending school to do Christmas work in the Post Office.
§ Mr. MaclayThe number of school pupils in each education authority area employed during term-time on this work in each year for 1948 to 1957 is shown in the table below. As the pupils involved are all over compulsory school age the question of legal exemption does not arise.
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Education Authority Number of pupils employed during term-time on Christmas postal work 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 Counties: Aberdeen … — — — — — — — — — 6 Angus … — — — — — 2 — — — — Argyll … 14 7 3 3 5 3 1 13 2 9 Ayr … 45 86 72 68 31 66 61 46 39 45 Banff … — — — — — — — — — — Berwick … — — — — 1 — — — — 1 Bute … — — — — — — — — — — Caithness … — — — — — — — — — — Clackmannan … 22 11 14 23 31 29 40 47 31 18 Dumfries … 12 — — — — — — — — — Dunbarton … 6 — — 7 4 — 16 30 14 8 East Lothian … — 2 1 — — — — — — 2 Fife … 12 6 14 — — — — — — — Inverness … 30 25 32 26 31 39 50 51 63 55 Kincardine … — — — — — — — — — — Kirkcudbright … — — — — — — — — — — Lanark … — 33 42 28 50 53 38 52 18 15 Midlothian … — — — — — — — — — — Moray and Nairn … 2 — — — — — — — — — Orkney … — — — — — 3 — — — — Peebles … — — — — — — — — — — Perth and Kinross … 2 1 — — — — — 6 8 5 Renfrew … 70 54 85 58 80 92 85 95 68 57 Ross and C.romarty … 9 8 — — 1 1 — — — — Roxburgh … 8 10 15 16 27 15 12 6 — — Selkirk … 13 18 33 11 21 20 36 29 32 33 Stirling … 6 21 18 68 74 46 35 64 56 45 Sutherland … — — — — — — 5 5 — — West Lothian … — — — — — — — — 1 — Wigtown … 5 — — — — — 2 3 — 1 Zetland … — — — — — — — — — — Burghs: Aberdeen … — — — — — — — — — — Dundee … — — — 23 — — — — — 2 Edinburgh … — 266 215 213 166 181 341 378 149 128 Glasgow … — — — — — — — — — — Total (Scotland) … 256 548 544 544 522 550 722 825 481 430