§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish details showing the total number of junior secondary school pupils who left school during the years 1960, 1961, and 1962, respectively.
148W(Dalmarnock) offices, which covers the hon. Member's constituency and some places outside it, the numbers of such grants made in the years 1960, 1961 and 1962 were respectively 1,659, 2,085 and 2,302; included in these figures are 957, 1,039 and 1,318 cases respectively where the need was met, at the applicants choice, by the issue of clothing from the Glasgow Corporation clothing store; the numbers of applications refused were respectively 301, 298 and 375; and the numbers of cases in which a grant was made on appeal were respectively 6, 10 and 5.