asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will make available to Parliament tables showing the following data in respect of every county and large burgh in Scotland; the addition to population credited in respect of sparsity; the addition to population credited in respect of children under the Local Government Bill now before Parliament; and the corresponding weightings under the Local Government (Scotland) Acts, 1929 to 1946.
The following tables give the information desired:
| Authority. | Under Local Government Bill Estimated Weighting for | Under existing Acts Weighting for | |||
| (a) Sparsity. | (b) Children under 15. | (a) Sparsity. | (b) Children under 5. | ||
| COUNTIES. | |||||
| Aberdeen | … | 6,558 | 39,083 | 321,030 | 119,937 |
| Angus | … | — | 17,588 | 115,873 | 27,799 |
| Argyll | … | 11,378 | 15,089 | 123,202 | 20,998 |
| Ayr | … | — | 58,601 | 256,933 | 144,925 |
| Banff | … | 161 | 14,476 | 130,506 | 42,541 |
| Berwick | … | 5,613 | 5,600 | 45,975 | 5,871 |
| Bute | … | — | 5,315 | 14,547 | 3,849 |
| Caithness | … | 1,201 | 6,247 | 66,260 | 16,828 |
| Clackmannan | … | — | 8,704 | 14,187 | 14,356 |
| Dumfries | … | 6,002 | 14,277 | 116,938 | 32,748 |
| Dunbarton | … | — | 21,601 | 42,106 | 31,507 |
| East Lothian | … | — | 12,518 | 72,043 | 31,718 |
| Fife | … | — | 50,021 | 136,350 | 120,938 |
| Inverness | … | 19,119 | 15,721 | 144,285 | 26,780 |
| Kincardine | … | 3,058 | 6,850 | 52,728 | 16,955 |
| Kirkcudbright | … | 8,329 | 7,992 | 67,603 | 22,171 |
| Lanark | … | — | 83,861 | 276,333 | 246,454 |
| Midlothian | … | — | 22,810 | 77,256 | 55,847 |
| Moray and Nairn | … | — | 13,530 | 96,505 | 33,100 |
| Orkney | … | 2,001 | 5,071 | 42,910 | 7,569 |
| Peebles | … | 13 | 3,137 | 17,053 | 2,734 |
| Perth and Kinross | … | 4,617 | 22,371 | 140,846 | 33,436 |
| Renfrew | … | — | 30,740 | 53,392 | 36,546 |
| Ross and Cromarty | … | 6,262 | 14,315 | 151,006 | 23,926 |
| Roxburgh | … | 1,736 | 9,242 | 78,338 | 15,622 |
| Selkirk | … | — | 4,191 | 23,880 | 2,821 |
| Stirling | … | — | 29,643 | 98,575 | 78,020 |
| Sutherland | … | 11,356 | 3,318 | 35,961 | 5,690 |
| West Lothian | … | — | 22,901 | 59,376 | 68,299 |
| Wigtown | … | 2,390 | 8,369 | 65,867 | 23,567 |
| Zetland | … | 3,917 | 4,024 | 45,823 | 4,919 |
| TOTAL COUNTIES | … | 93,711 | 577,206 | 2,983,687 | 1,318,471 |
| TOTAL LARGE BURGHS | … | — | 655,670 | — | 1,800,605 |
| TOTAL SCOTLAND | … | 93,711 | 1,232,876 | 2,983,687 | 3,119,076 |