§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the total number of community50W Block grant under the Grant-Aided Secondary Schools Regulations ceased in 1985 when the schools concerned became independent.
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the number of pupils in independent/non-maintained schools who obtained(a) six or more higher, (b) three or more higher and (c) one or more highers, and as a percentage of S4, S5, S6 in that section for each of the years 1982–83 to 1987–88 inclusive.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythInformation relating to the number of pupils in each stage in independent schools is not available. Readily available information relating to the number and percentage of all school leavers from independent and grant-aided schools who obtained highers is shown in the table below.
programme support projects which have (a) closed down as being unsuitable for transfer to employment training, (b) been transferred to employment training, (c) will close down at the end of the project life on 31 March because of their unsuitability for employment training and the total number of places involved in each category for the most recent date for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Lang[holding answer 7 February 1989]The Government do not accept that former community programme projects were unsuitable for transfer to employment training. A number of community programme sponsors chose not to participate in employment training: no count was made of the number of projects and places affected. Nor was a count made of the number of former community programme projects that joined employment training or the places they offered. A count now could be made only at disproportionate cost. However, by the end of March 1989, 21 community programme projects which did not transfer to employment training and which have contracts which are not yet completed will close down. These projects currently provide 260 places.