§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the percentage of (a) 3 and (b) 4-year-olds receiving nursery education in each regional and island authority and in Scotland overall.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherThe percentages of three-year-olds and four-year-olds attending education authority nursery schools at September 1979—the latest date for which information is at present available—were as follows:
Authority Percentage of Three-year-olds Percentage of Four-year-olds Borders 6 19 Central 14 29 Dumfries and Galloway 2 12 Fife 20 53 Grampian 13 23 Highland 4 13 Lothian 32 41 Orkney 17 22 Shetland 12 11 Strathclyde 17 29 Tayside 16 25 Western Isles 13 20 Scotland 17 30