§ Mr. David Steelasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will formulate plans to help schools to attempt to overcome the effects of social deprivation by discrimination in favour of the most needy.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellI am awaiting the report on the Dundee Educational Priority Area research project. I have already, however, asked education
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Area Total number employed* Number/1,000 population aged 65 and over† Whole-time equivalent of total Whole-time equivalent per 1,000 population aged 65 and over† Counties Aberdeen and Kincardine … 442 19.1 137.5 5.9 Angus … 226 18.9 50.5 4.2 Argyll … 180 16.8 83.7 7.8 Ayr … 383 11.9 305.1 9.4 Banff … 108 16.3 34.0 5.1 Berwick … 130 35.8 36.6 10.1 Bute … 18 5.9 8.6 2.7 Caithness … 123 38.2 53.3 16.6 Clackmannan … 187 39.2 90.5 19.0 Dumfries … 211 25.8 54.6 6.7 Dunbarton … 291 18.8 143.7 9.3 Fife … 1,168 40.6 564.0 19.6 Inverness … 230 27.8 82.5 10.0 Kirkcudbright … 80 18.2 23.7 5.4 Lanark … 655 19.4 446.0 13.2 Midlothian, East Lothian and Peebles … 839 36. 8 238.6 10.5 Moray and Nairn … 119 15.2 27.3 3.5 Orkney … 163 58.5 54.3 19.5 Perth and Kinross … 352 23.7 49.4 3.3 Renfrew … 191 9.9 108.0 5.6 Ross and Cromarty … 274 28.9 95.9 10.1 Roxburgh … 134 19.0 36.2 5.1 Selkirk … 66 19.9 15.3 4.6 Stirling … 561 37.8 137.0 9.2 Sutherland … 87 38.8 39.8 17.7 West Lothian … 391 35.5 111.9 10.1 Wigtown … 87 23.9 33.8 9.3 Zetland … 84 28.3 30.8 10.4 authorities to give priority in the initial stages of the nursery education building programme to areas of social deprivation and to ensure that nursery education reaches those children who most need it.