§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the most recent per capita expenditure on school books for (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils for each of the regions of Scotland; and what was the comparable figure for the preceding five years.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherThe available information, which is based on local authority expenditure returns and the annual school census figures, is shown in the following table; the figures are not entirely comparable, since some authorities have included other items of expenditure under the heading of "text and library books".
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1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 Region/Islands Council Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Fife 2.62 5.21 1.93 4.42 4.24 5.82 4.76 6.95 4.81 7.09 7.00 8.01 Grampian 2.88 5.77 3.38 7.02 3.36 6.38 12.40 26.54 13.5 28.79 7.96 7.98 Highland n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 5.99 7.06 14.49 29.47 Lothian 10.46 23.96 3.12 5.99 4.03 6.80 4.62 6.47 5.81 9.57 5.66 7.78 Strathclyde 4.09 7.46 3.86 6.51 5.63 8.44 5.52 8.85 5.20 7.48 6.50 8.90 Tayside 1.22 3.03 2.32 3.38 2.47 3.85 2.81 4.05 3.01 4.46 3.73 4.78 Orkney 14.37 29.82 8.63 12.25 19.60 31.48 19.93 25.45 15.6 22.71 13.26 19.72 Shetland n/a n/a 10.32 26.69 4.01 9.45 5.94 10.75 6.65 11.04 8.21 15.28 Western Isles 3.21 6.93 6.93 5.35 13.82 33.55 8.15 8.63 12.47 9.17 n/a n/a n/a=Not available.