HC Deb 28 March 1973 vol 853 cc336-7W
Mr. Wolrige-Gordon

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will give the numbers and locations of primary schools in Scotland as defined by one-teacher, two-teacher and three-teacher schools.

Mr. Gordon Campbell

At January 1972, the latest date for which figures are available, the numbers of primary schools and departments in these categories were as follows:

One-teacher Two-teacher Three-teacher
Aberdeen (County) 17 53 16
Angus 17 24 6
Argyll 60 27 8
Ayr 2 12 10
Banff 3 6 5
Berwick 9 7 4
Bute 2 3 3
Caithness 5 5
Clackmannan 1
Dumfries 12 22 13
Dunbarton 2 2
East Lothian 2 5 4
Fife 13 17 10
Inverness 50 40 12
Kincardine 4 11 5
Kirkcudbright 8 12 9
Lanark 7 20 14
Midlothian 1 10 2
Moray and Nairn 4 3
Orkney 11 8 7
Peebles 7 2 2
Perth and Kinross 35 27 12
Renfrew 1 1 2
Ross and Cromarty 22 23 24
Roxburgh 10 3 2
Selkirk 3 3 1
Stirling 4 7 9
Sutherland 8 9 3
West Lothian 1 4 2
Wigtown 2 4 3
Zetland 17 9 3
Totals 335 376 199

1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
Visiting teachers (full-time equivalent) 470 533 611 688 778

The information was collected for the first time for individual subjects in Sep-

Art Homecraft Music Physical Education Speech and Drama Other All Subjects
Visiting teachers (full-time equivalent) 134 185 229 160 16 146 870