§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the total number of Her Majesty's inspectors' school reports published in each of the years 1979–80 to 1987–88 inclusive for Scotland and each local education authority.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe publication of Her Majesty's Inspectors' reports on schools was instituted from the 651W beginning of the 1983–84 session. The number of reportsproduced for each of the school sessions since then are setout in the table below:
1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 Borders 3 5 5 5 4 Central 8 7 9 10 9 Dumfries & Galloway 5 6 5 7 6 Fife 9 10 11 11 12 Grampian 17 15 17 17 15 Highland 13 10 17 14 10 Lothian 19 14 20 21 19 Strathclyde 52 62 51 51 54 Tayside 13 11 16 13 12 Orkney Islands 2 2 1 2 1 Shetland Islands 1 4 1 3 1 Western Isles 1 6 5 4 3 Scotland 143 152 158 158 146
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the total number of Her Majesty's inspectors in each of the years 1979–80 to 1987–88, inclusive.
§ Mr. RifkindThe total number of Her Majesty's inspectors of schools in post at 1 September in each of the years 1979 to 1988 inclusive is as follows:
Number 1 September 1979 119 1 September 1980 109 1 September 1981 99 1 September 1982 93 1 September 1983 105 1 September 1984 109 1 September 1985 114 1 September 1986 116 1 September 1987 113 1 September 1988 1105 1 At this date there were seven Her Majesty's Inspector vacancies, for which open recruitment competitions had been advertised.