§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the average size of each school population for which each education authority in Scotland is responsible.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonInformation on the average school population for each education authority is as follows.
Average school population as at September 1991 Primary Secondary Scotland 186 708 Borders 111 656 Central 200 879 Dumfries and Galloway 110 558 Fife 215 1,118 Grampian 161 789 Highland 96 519 Lothian 233 722 Strathclyde 230 765 Tayside 171 689 Orkney 75 231 Shetland 64 183 Western Isles 58 144 Strathclyde Divisions Argyll and Bute 74 45.4 Ayr 228 778 Dunbarton 258 897 Glasgow 248 660 Lanark 220 868 Renfrew 294 780