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Mr. McNally
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the estimated number of (a) primary school pupils and (b) secondary school pupils attending schools in Scotland in (i) 1981–82, (ii) 1982–83 and (iii) his best estimate of the numbers in each category in each year from 1983–84 to 1988–89.
Mr. Alexander Fletcher
The information is contained in the following table and relates to the public sector. All the figures after 1981–82 are estimated.
| Primary school | Secondary school | |
| September | ||
| 1981–82 | 492,600 | 404,600 |
| 1982–83 | 472,600 | 393,900 |
| 1983–84 | 452,800 | 387,600 |
| 1984–85 | 441,600 | 375,900 |
| 1985–86 | 438,600 | 360,600 |
| 1986–87 | 441,200 | 344,300 |
| 1987–88 | 448,000 | 327,800 |
| 1988–89 | 459,800 | 311,700 |