§ Mr. Millanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the number of places in day care centres provided by each local authority in Scotland, and show what these numbers represent per 1,000 population in each area.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellProvision by local authorities at 31st December 1972 is shown in the following table; in addition, 230 places were provided by voluntary bodies. The total provision of 709 places represented 013 places per thousand population.
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DAY CARE CENTRES FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN Local authority Places Number of places per 1,000 population Counties Aberdeen and Kincardine — — Angus — — Argyll 6 0.10 Ayr 12 0.05 Banff — — Berwick 15 0.73 Bute — — Caithness 14 0.50 Clackmannan 15 0.33 Dumfries — — Dunbarton — — East Lothian — — Fife — — Inverness 11 0.20 Kirkcudbright — — Lanark — — Midlothian, East Lothian and Peebles — — past 10 years; and what were the causes registered for these deaths.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellComplete information is not available over 10 years, nor does the available information necessarily relate to a three-month period. From death certificates and notifications under the Abortion Act 1967, however, it is known that legal abortion was associated with the following deaths between 1965 and 1972:
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Local authority Places Number of places per 1,000 population Counties Moray and Nairn — — Orkney — — Perth and Kinross — — Renfrew 140 0.79 Ross and Cromarty 18 0.30 Roxburgh — — Selkirk — — Stirling — — Sutherland — — West Lothian 27 0.25 Wigtown — — Zetland — — Cities Aberdeen 36 0.20 Dundee — — Edinburgh 72 0.16 Glasgow — — Burghs Airdrie — — Arbroath — — Ayr 12 0.25 Clydebank 16 0.33 Coatbridge 8 0.16 Dumbarton — — Dumfries 6 0.21 Dunfermline — — East Kilbride 12 0.18 Falkirk 12 0.32 Greenock and Port Glasgow 24 0.26 Hamilton — — Inverness — — Kilmarnock 15 0.30 Kirkcaldy — — Motherwell and Wishaw — — Paisley — — Perth — — Rutherglen — — Stirling 8 0.27 Totals 479 0.09