asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what allowances he has made for additional teaching staff in areas of urban deprivation in his estimates of the staffing requirements of education authorities.

In estimating the staffing requirements of education authorities at September 1979, account has been taken of (i) about 500 additional teachers appointed to schools serving urban areas of deprivation under the scheme announced in SED circular No. 991 of September 1977, and (ii) about 170 additional teachers appointed to certain schools in Strathclyde under the urban programme.