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Mr. Lawson
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what proportion of school children in each of the separate Scottish education authority areas, allocated first to a three years' secondary
Sir D. Eccles
The numbers of pupils aged 7 years and over in county infant schools and departments, in England and Wales, in January, 1961, was as given in the table below:course, was subsequently re-allocated to a four or five years' course.
Mr. Maclay
The information asked for is given below for session 1959–60, the latest for which figures are available.
| Education Authority | Percentage of pupils in 3 year secondary courses subsequently transferred to 4 or 5 year courses |
| COUNTIES: | |
| Aberdeen | 0·1 |
| Angus | 0·6 |
| Argyll | 3·8 |
| Ayr | 0·6 |
| Banff | 0·4 |
| Berwick | 1·0 |
| Bute | 1·3 |
| Caithness | 0·4 |
| Clackmannan | 1·7 |
| Dumfries | 0·5 |
| Dunbarton | 1·3 |
| East Lothian | 0·7 |
| Fife | 0·6 |
| Inverness | 0·5 |
| Kincardine | 0·4 |
| Kirkcudbright | 1·9 |
| Lanark | 0·5 |
| Midlothian | 0·1 |
| Moray and Nairn | 0·8 |
| Orkney | 1·4 |
| Peebles | 2·9 |
| Perth and Kinross | 3·4 |
| Renfrew | 0·8 |
| Ross and Cromarty | 0·9 |
| Roxburgh | 0·5 |
| Selkirk | 0·9 |
| Stirling | 2·1 |
| Sutherland | 2·7 |
| West Lothian | 0·8 |
| Wigtown | 0·1 |
| Zetland | 0·1 |
| BURGHS: | |
| Aberdeen | 0·4 |
| Dundee | 0·5 |
| Edinburgh | 2·2 |
| Glasgow | 0·5 |