§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total number of articles of clothing belonging to school children that were lost from schools in Lanarkshire in the last five years; and what was the total financial cost to the local education authority of replacing these articles.
§ Mr. MaclayI understand that the education authority could not extract this information from many individual records without considerable work which I would not feel justified in asking it to undertake. If the hon. Member has a particular case in mind, I should be glad to have inquiries made into it.