§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the new local authorities in schedule 1 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Bill as amended in the Standing Committee, giving the(a) population, (b) electorate, (c) area and (d) number of (i) secondary and (ii) primary schools for each of those authorities.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 28 February 1994]: Information on population, electorate and area of the proposed new single-tier authorities is set out in the table. The information requested in relation to schools is not held centrally.
New local authority area Population1 (rounded to nearest 000) Electorate2 (rounded to nearest 000) Area (square km) City of Aberdeen 217 172 180 Aberdeenshire 221 169 5,870 Angus 112 88 2,640 Argyll and Bute 91 69 7,020 North Ayrshire 139 106 890 East Ayrshire 124 96 1,270 South Ayrshire 114 89 1,230 The Borders 105 85 4,730 Clackmannan and Falkirk 195 150 470 Dumbarton and Clydebank 98 73 180 Dumfries and Galloway 148 117 6,450 East Dunbartonshire 110 83 180 City of Dundee 155 118 50 City of Edinburgh 440 352 260 Fife 346 269 1,320 City of Glasgow 627 475 170 Highland 206 161 25,390 Inverclyde 91 69 170 North Lanarkshire 328 245 480 South Lanarkshire 307 235 1,780 East and Midlothian 165 129 1,010 West Lothian 146 111 430 Moray 85 65 2,240 Orkney Islands 20 16 1,020 Perthshire and Kinross 128 100 5,390 East Renfrewshire 88 68 170 Renfrewshire 174 133 260 Shetland Islands 23 17 1,470 Stirling 81 64 2,240 Western Isles 29 23 3,070 1Source: GRO(S) Based on mid-1992 population estimates. 1Source: GRO(S) Based on 1994 electoral registers.