HC Deb 14 March 1961 vol 636 cc103-5W
Mr. Dempsey

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the total school population of each local education authority in Scotland; what the school population of each local education authority represents as a percentage of the total school population in Scotland; what percentage of the total cost of the 1960 to 1965 school building programme will be met out of Government funds, for each local education authority,

salary earners in 1939; and how they compare today;

(2) what a teacher's basic salary was in 1939; and what it is today.

Mr. Maclay

The basic salary scales of the main groups of teachers in 1939 and today—disregarding the responsibility allowances ranging from £60 to £1,350 paid to 28 per cent. of them—compare as follows:

employment outside the Service. The following table compares the salaries (Edinburgh rates) in 1939 and today of a selection of grades in the Civil Service:

respectively; and what percentage this figure represents of each local education authority's estimated school building expenditure as a consequence of the 1960 to 1965 school building programme.

Mr. Maclay

The table below gives the figures asked for in the first two parts of the Question. I am unable to give the figures asked for in the last two parts of the Question since the general grant paid to each local authority is a subvention to its whale expenditure on the various services which the grant covers. Particular parts of these grants cannot be attributed to particular items of expenditure on these services.

Education Authority Number of Pupils in Public Schools in January,1960 (1) Percentage of total school population(2)
Counties:
Aberdeen … 24,388 2.8
Angus … 15,328 1.8
Argyll … 8,727 1.0
Ayr … 57,203 6.7
Banff … 8,456 1.0
Berwick … 3,669 0.4
Bute … 1,974 0.2
Caithness … 4,678 0.5
Clackmannan … 7,282 0.8
Dumfries … 14,780 1.7
Dunbarton … 31,374 3.7
East Lothian … 8,668 1.0
Fife … 56,456 6.6
Inverness … 14,374 1.7
Kincardine … 4,468 0.5
Kirkcudbright … 4,717 0.6
Lanark … 99,682 11.6
Midlothian … 18,932 2.2
Moray and Nairn … 10,068 1.2
Orkney … 3,110 0.4
Peebles … 2,065 0.2
Perth and Kinross … 20,247 2.4
Renfrew … 55,666 6.5
Ross and Cromarty … 10,286 1.2
Roxburgh … 6,185 0.7
Selkirk … 3,236 0.4
Stirling … 32,697 3.8
Sutherland … 2,284 0.3
West Lothian … 16,683 1.9
Wigtown … 5,370 0.6
Zetland … 2,939 0.3
Burghs:
Aberdeen … 30,007 3.5
Dundee … 30,507 3.6
Edinburgh … 63,270 7.4
Glasgow … 178,860 20.8
Total (Scotland) … 858,636 100.0