§ Mr. Millanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give figures for nursery school, day nursery, and playgroup places available in each regional or islands authority area in Scotland for each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. YoungerThe information from 1976 to 1980 is shown in the following tables comparable information is not available prior to local government reorganisation.
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Places in pre-school playgroups—local authority and registered (includes voluntary and private) Regions 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 Borders 1,340 1,345 1,363 1,375 1,037 Central 2,368 2,314 2,202 2,312 2,124 Dumfries and Galloway 1,178 1,534 1,320 1,228 1,248 Fife 3,288 3,510 3,193 3,168 2,330 Grampian 4,188 4,846 4,877 5,177 4,967 Highland 2,153 2,253 3,277 2,529 2,512 Lothian 7,852 7,101 6,681 6,270 5,232 Strathclyde 19,116 23,267 21,533 19,629 17,415 Tayside 3,695 2,805 3,335 3,412 3,585 Orkney 305 335 360 380 450 Shetland 480 498 486 480 518 Western Isles 255 240 300 270 332 SCOTLAND 46,218 50,048 48,927 46,230 41,750 Derived from annual returns submitted by social work departments, voluntary bodies and others (March of each year).