§ Dr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many pre-school education places were available in(a) Strathclyde and (b) Scotland at the latest available date; and in each case what percentage these figures represent of the total number of the children in the relevant age group.
Education authority nursery schools and departments; nursery departments of independent schools1 Private nursery schools2 Number attending at September 1993 Percentage of population3 Number attending at March 1994 Percentage of population3 Strathclyde 19,661 33.9 2,864 4.9 Scotland 49,194 38.6 6,982 5.5 1 Includes all those under five years old attending independent schools with nursery departments. 2 Registered with local authority social work departments. Includes all children aged under five. 3 Based on the mid-1993 estimates of the three and four-year-old population prepared by the General Register Office for Scotland.