§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the percentage of pre-school children receiving nursery education in Scotland and each local authority in the latest year.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe following table shows the number of all pre-school children attending education authority nursery schools at September 1983, expressed as a percentage of three and four-year-olds.
Pupils at Education Authority Nursery Schools as Percentage of Three and Four Year Old Population—1983 Provisional Scottish Education Department Authority/Division Per cent. Borders 17 Central 32 Dumfries/Galloway 8 Fife 43 Grampian 19 Highland 10 Lothian 44 Strathclyde 28 Tayside 24 Orkney 18 Shetland 11 Western Isles 16 All Scotland 28
§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the percentage and number of three and four-year-olds receiving nursery education in both Tayside region and Scotland in 1980 and in the lastest year.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe latest year for which information on nursery pupils by age is available is 1982 and the relevant figures are set out in the following table. More recent information will not be available until the detailed results of the 1983 school census are processed later this summer.