§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish details showing the total school popula-
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Education Authority Pupils in Authority Schools January, 1963 Allocation of investment March, 1963 Aggregate value of approved projects Value of actual starts to 31st October, 1963 (7 months) Counties £thousand £thousand £thousand Aberdeen … 23,464 287 393 362 Angus … 14,818 620 577 577 Argyll … 8,800 51 82 78 Ayr … 57,846 1,000 1,216 211 Banff … 8,227 80 80 — Berwick … 3,544 38 53 — Bute … 1,996 79 80 9 Caithness … 5,080 150 216 66 Clackmannan … 7,149 266 267 267 Dumfries … 14,682 212 503 289 Dunbarton … 34,390 855 1,457 735 East Lothian … 8,892 100 188 — Fife … 55,451 630 869 241 Inverness … 14,468 354 496 290 Kincardine … 4,412 212 212 — Kirkcudbright … 4,627 20 229 201 Lanark … 103,993 1,760 1,789 537 Midlothian … 19,774 602 875 847 Moray and Nairn … 10,358 149 220 220 Orkney … 3,037 — — — Peebles … 1,947 250 293 293 Perth and Kinross … 20,083 116 415 347 Renfrew … 57,302 1,035 2,100 1,474 Ross and Cromarty … 10,137 347 486 117 Roxburgh … 6,101 — — — Selkirk … 3,275 13 26 11 Stirling … 33,035 362 384 242 Sutherland … 2,259 41 47 — West Lothian … 17,145 700 904 193 Wigtown … 5,260 — — — Zetland … 2,860 107 107 — Burghs Aberdeen … 29,431 153 316 316 Dundee … 30,943 424 424 — Edinburgh … 63,210 801 941 121 Glasgow … 175,730 2,525 2,540 799 Total (Scotland) … 863,726 14,339 18,785 8,843 The amounts shown in Column (4) include the value of projects approved in the previous financial year which did not start until the current year and also of some projects approved this year but now unlikely to be ready to start until 1964–65.