§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what allowance he has made in the calculation of rate support grant to regional councils for their expenditure on clothing grants to enable children to attend school.
§ Mr. AncramSchool clothing grants are taken into account but not specifically identified in arriving at the provision for relevant expenditure. Rate support grant is paid in support of local revenues generally and cannot be attributed to individual items of local authority expenditure.
§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the latest available figures for expenditure by each region on school clothing grants; and how this compares with 1982.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe latest available figures for expenditure on school clothing grants made under section 54 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 are in respect of financial year 1981–82. These are as follows:
(to the nearest thousand pounds) Education authority Expenditure £ Borders 10,000 Central 126,000 Dumfries and Galloway 17,000 Fife 12,000 Grampian — Highland 17,000 Lothian 74,000 Strathclyde 444,000 Tayside 31,000 Orkney 3,000 Shetland — Western Isles — Total 734,000 Figures for financial year 1982/83 are not yet available.