HC Deb 20 May 1966 vol 728 cc326-8W
Mr. MacArthur

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what amounts were asked for by each education authority in Scotland for their school building programmes in each year since 1960; and what amounts were allocated by him in each case.

Mr. Ross

The following table shows, in columns A and B respectively, the amounts of capital investment initially sought by each education authority for their school building programmes in the financial years 1960–61 to 1964–65, and the value of projects started in each area in each of these years. Since 1965–66 school building programmes have been

(£000)
Education Authority 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65
A B A B A B A B A B
Counties
Aberdeen 237 173 1,446 600 1,116 665 882 397 458 406
Angus 326 336 105 6 564 254 774 577 69 70
Argyll 572 348 895 653 1,131 50 608 131 527 428
Ayr 1,540 522 1,330 70 2,172 1,292 2,312 1,283 1,478 979
Banff 428 35 354 242 20 99 233 7 220 124
Berwick 50 60 200 270 38 38 53 60 43
Bute 11 25 74 79 92 70
Caithness 498 308 317 396 266 15 412 136 446 202
Clackmannan 375 153 76 675 259 692 267 442 235
Dumfries 496 234 714 51 966 336 311 515 460 299
Dunbarton 129 131 650 279 1,257 1,184 2,852 949 1,212 1,846
East Lothian 202 55 328 156 461 21 586 201 778 13
Fife 1,625 878 1,217 540 1,819 1,199 2,643 925 1,835 1,074
Inverness 203 21 803 559 358 205 462 520 549 152
Kincardine 21 11 144 26 40 49 212 214 84 52
Kirkcudbright 144 19 209 131 166 141 317 231 366 123
Lanark 6,865 2,060 No programme submitted 60 1,260 1,414 3,198 2,088 3,135 2,263
Midlothian 288 102 1,672 536 1,593 881 1,020 882 1,352 795
Moray and Nairn 174 18 89 38 550 173 883 220 1,642 306
Orkney 321 120 45 17 405 124 145 200
Peebles 102 124 257 10 269 293 19
Perth and Kinross 572 280 705 439 796 626 608 421 857 500
Renfrew 1,330 920 2,684 2,316 2,245 1,699 2,800 2,536 2,925 1,771
Ross and Cromarty 99 132 272 119 510 243 828 534 690 543
Roxburgh 288 117 140 3 26 43 22 2 22 2
Selkirk 31 51 519 528 5 8 58 27 45
Stirling 1,011 624 1,448 1,079 724 436 602 433 475 305
Sutherland 558 275 552 367 154 4 157 76 221 99
West Lothian 533 385 842 95 1,198 902 2,127 752 1,471 915
Wigtown 99 28 174 40 695 863 45 6
Zetland 321 104 201 312 96 133 261 18 245 209
Burghs
Aberdeen 897 641 700 135 322 432 865 328 1,015 53
Dundee 273 66 597 544 795 315 634 450 678 358
Edinburgh 1,021 422 1,743 948 1,301 393 1,130 1,095 820 589
Glasgow 4,770 1,472 4,767 3,878 5,422 2,102 7,890 2,807 8,656 3,188
Total 26,410 10,948 26,164 15,509 29,477 16,570 36,910 19,460 33,567 17,948

Mr. Monro

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the value of approvals for new school building in 1963, 1964, 1965 and the first quarter of 1966 in the counties of Stirling and Clackmannan, respectively.

Mr. Ross

The value of projects started is shown in the following table:

Value of Projects Started
000)
Education Authority 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66
Stirling 433 305 237
Clackmannan 267 235 89

Note:

The information is shown by financial years, since this is the basis on which the school building programme is controlled. The value of starts in the first quarter of 1966 is included in the figure for 1965–66.

framed on a three-year basis within specific amounts of investment allocated to each authority.

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