§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many teachers are employed in the nursery school sector; and, of these, how many are employed in Strathclyde as a whole and in Glasgow in particular.
§ Mr. McElhoneAt September 1975 there were 510 teachers—including the full-time equivalent of part-time staff employed in education authority nursery schools in Scotland. Of these 202 were in Strathclyde, including 121 in the Glasgow division.
§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish figures showing the number of whole-time nursery school places available per 100 children in the age group three to five years for Scotland as a whole, for each of the regions, for Glasgow and for Lanarkshire.
§ Mr. McElhoneAt September 1975, the provisional numbers of places in 195W education authority nursery schools and classes were as follows:
Region Places Highland 110 Grampian 1,702 Tayside 1,329 Fife 1,754 Lothian 4,512 Borders 183 Central 454 Strathclyde 9,216 Dumfries and Galloway 101 Orkney 30 Shetland — Western Isles 25 Scotland 19,416 The total number of places represented provision for 12 per cent. of children aged 3 and 4. Attendance is predominantly part-time. Separate figures for Glasgow and Lanarkshire are not now compiled, and the figures of child population that would be needed to calculate the percentage provision in each region are not available centrally.