§ Mr. Pendryasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a comparative table showing the numbers of home helps employed in each region, division or island authority in Scotland each year from 1979 to 1985.
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§ Mr. John MacKayThe information available centrally and included in the Scottish Education Department's annual publication "Home Care Services,
Number of home helps at 31 March (Whole time equivalent) 1979–1985 Regions 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 Borders 130.7 103.9 106.1 107.7 108.8 101.8 101.1 Central 422.0 401.2 398.1 439.9 437.1 448.0 448.3 Dumfries and Galloway 258.8 321.0 312.5 318.9 284.5 314.7 303.0 Fife 519.1 543.6 502.9 514.2 536.3 585.5 586.0 Grampian 565.2 574.7 572.2 580.3 644.8 690.8 733.7 Highland 205.9 209.3 221.1 236.4 267.8 287.7 301.4 Lothian 1,643.3 1,779.8 1,734.4 1,643.0 1,538.1 1,479.0 1,477.4 Strathclyde 4,944.8 4,966.1 4,527.1 4,681.2 4,292.6 4,731.8 4,715.2 Tayside 528.2 523.5 537.7 529.2 548.7 572.8 553.7 Orkney 61.5 69.2 64.5 59.5 62.3 66.7 65.9 Shetland 48.0 55.8 51.6 52.8 57.4 52.1 48.4 Western Isles 151.4 1,137.8 95.0 138.9 178.2 154.5 167.7 SCOTLAND 9,478.9 9,685.9 9,123.2 9,302.0 8,956.6 9,485.4 9,501.8