§ Mr. ChisholmTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland from which budget he took the £30 million of health capital expenditure announced on 9 October 1996. [2479]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe distribution of £30 million to enable NHS trusts in Scotland to carry out
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§ Mr. Raymond S. RobertsonStatistics on class size are collected biennially. The available information, which relates to pupils in P1, P2 and P3 single stage classes and P1/P2 and P2/P3 composite stage classes, as at September 1995, is given below.
P1 to P3 pupils in classes of 31 or more, as at September 11995 Education authority2 Number of pupils Percentage of pupils Scotland 31,019 17.7 Borders 254 8.0 Central 1,991 21.2 Dumfries and Galloway 731 17.0 Fife 1,366 11.0 Grampian 2,568 14.6 Highland 409 6.6 Lothian 6,372 25.0 Strathclyde 14,698 17.9 Tayside 2,568 20.3 Orkney — — Shetland 31 4.1 Western Isles 31 6.0 1 Excludes pupils in P3/P4 composite classes and multi-stage classes. 3 Includes grant-aided and self-governing schools.
§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many and what percentage of primary school children were in classes of 31 or more for each year since 1990(a) per authority and (b) in Scotland. [2477]
§ Mr. Raymond S. RobertsonStatistics on class size are collected biennially. The available information is given in the table.
a number of capital projects will be funded from the capital budget.