HC Deb 28 October 1970 vol 805 cc146-7W
Mr. Gourlay

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state for each education authority area the pupil/teacher ratio for primary and secondary schools, respectively, for the last financial year for which figures are available.

Mr. Gordon Campbell

The figures at January, 1970, the latest date for which information is available, are set out in the table below.

PUPIL/TEACHER RATIOS
Education Authority Primary Secondary
BURGHS
Aberdeen 23.4:1 13.7:1
Dundee 28.2:1 15.8:1
Edinburgh 28.2:1 16.4:1
Glasgow 35.8:1 17.0:1
COUNTIES
Aberdeen 24.9:1 15.0:1
Angus 27.3:1 16.2:1
Argyll 22.8:1 15.7:1
Ayr 29.3:1 16.5:1
Banff 25.8:1 15.3:1
Berwick 22.7:1 13.5:1
Bute 27.6:1 14.2:1
Caithness 26.0:1 16.3:1
Clackmannan 26.9:1 14.0:1
Dumfries 28.2:1 15.4:1
Dunbarton 27.8:1 16.2:1
East Lothian 30.5:1 16.6:1
Fife 29.7:1 15.1:1
Inverness 23.1:1 16.6:1
Kincardine 26.1:1 14.0:1
Kirkcudbright 24.2:1 12.9:1
Lanark 34.2:1 18.1:1
Midlothian 29.9:1 15.5:1
Moray and Nairn 28.5:1 16.8:1
Orkney 22.1:1 14.3:1
Peebles 27.7:1 15.9:1
Perth and Kinross 24.2:1 14.6:1
Renfrew 32.7:1 19.5:1
Ross and Cromarty 22.9:1 15.3:1
Roxburgh 26.2:1 16.1:1
Selkirk 27.0:1 14.5:1
Stirling 29.7:1 16.3:1
Sutherland 23.2:1 11.8:1
West Lothian 27.7:1 17.1:1
Wigtown 26.8:1 15.8:1
Zetland 21.9:1 14.2:1
All Scotland 29.7:1 16.4:1

Note:

In the calculation of the ratios the full-time equivalent of part-time teachers is included but visiting, supply and relief teachers are excluded. Conditionally registered teachers and, in secondary schools only, unregistered teachers whose temporary appointments have been approved by a reference panel are included.