HC Deb 05 May 1995 vol 259 cc339-40W
Mr. Beggs

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the numbers of staff and the administrative costs of each education authority in Scotland and the number of school pupils for which each education authority was responsible in the year ended 31 March. [21789]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information on administrative costs and pupil numbers is given in the following table for 1993–94, the latest available year. Details of numbers of staff employed by each education authority are not held centrally. However the "Joint Staffing Watch" records that, at September 1993. Scottish education authorities employed a total of 53,212, full-time equivalent, teachers and lecturers and 25,651, full-time equivalent, other staff, including non-teaching staff in schools and administrative staff.

Net administrative expenditure of Education Departments £000 Pupils Numbers (FTE) in local authority nursery, primary, secondary and special schools
Borders 3,031 15,164
Central 6,553 42,417
Dumfries and Galloway 3,811 22,799
Fife 8,434 56,341
Grampian 10,587 79,371
Highland 4,191 34,727
Lothian 20,245 101,555

Net administrative expenditure of Education Departments £000 Pupils Numbers (FTE) in local authority nursery, primary, secondary and special schools
Strathclyde 40,427 359,344
Tayside 7,952 58,275
Orkney 806 3,349
Shetland 2,620 4,116
Western Isles 2,755 4,885

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