§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish details showing the total value of the school building programme for which Departmental approval was recently sought by each local education authority, the actual amount approved, what this represented as a percentage of the amount of the original application, and the total school population of each local education authority.
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§ Mr. Noble,pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th March, 1964; Vol. 691, c. 137–8] circulates the following information:
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CURRENTLY AUTHORISED SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAMMES Education Authority Value of project authorised £ thousand Counties Aberdeen 401 Angus 69 Argyll 425 Ayr 1,000 Banff 180 Berwick 30 Bute 83 Caithness 178 Clackmannan 238 Dumfries 250 Dunbarton[...] 1,272 East Lothian 17 Fife 1,000 Inverness 432 Kincardine 51 Kirkcudbright 187
Education Authority Value of project authorised £ thousand Counties Lanark 2,105 Midlothian 912 Moray and Nairn 171 Orkney 100 Peebles — Perth and Kinross 450 Renfrew 1,500 Ross and Cromarty 400 Roxburgh 26 Selkirk 45 Stirling 238 Sutherland 100 West Lothian 790 Wigtown — Zetland 138 Burghs Aberdeen 51 Dundee 374 Edinburgh 755 Glasgow 2,834 The majority of the projects authorised are expected to start in 1964–65.