§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what is the number and proportion of secondary school buildings in Scotland which were built before 1939;
(2) what is the number and proportion of primary school buildings in Scotland which were built before 1939.
§ Mr. William RossInformation is not available in the form requested, but the following figures for education authority schools as at September 1974 give an indication of the scale of building since the last war in relation to the total number of schools:
Total number of schools and departments Number of new schools completed from 1946 Primary 2,510 980 Secondary 443 272 Because of changes in the use of buildings completed since the war the differences between the figures in the first and second columns are not exactly equivalent to the numbers of schools with pre-1946 buildings.