To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in the Official Report, for each education authority in Scotland, the number of applications received for financial assistance for school clothing under the Education Acts, the number of grants
| £'000 | |||||
| Financial year | |||||
| Education authority | 1982–83 | 1983–84 | 1984–85 | 1985–86 | 1986–87 |
| Borders | 13 | 18 | 30 | 37 | 48 |
| Central | 248 | 324 | 393 | 375 | 369 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 26 | 32 | 44 | — | 1 |
| Fife | 18 | 33 | 116 | 128 | 190 |
| Grampian | 4 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 32 |
| Highland | 32 | 63 | 93 | 119 | 116 |
| Lothian | 122 | 180 | 248 | 126 | 168 |
| Strathclyde | 1,937 | 2,917 | 3,034 | 3,227 | 3,294 |
| Tayside | 90 | 139 | 188 | 224 | 229 |
| Orkney | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| Shetland | — | — | — | — | — |
| Western Isles | 19 | 37 | 18 | 20 | 20 |
| Total | 2,513 | 3,755 | 4,180 | 4,270 | 4,474 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in the Official Report the amounts budgeted for expenditure in the next financial year by each local education authority in Scotland to meet the demand for clothing grants under the education grants, shown separately as an amount per eligible pupil at school in each region.
This information is not held centrally.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will consider making a specific grant to each education authority in Scotland to cope with increases in applications for financial assistance for clothing grants under the Education Acts.
My right hon. and learned Friend has no plans to direct resources into a specific grant for the purpose of supporting expenditure by local authorities on clothing grants made under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980. It is for authorities to determine the level of their spending for this purpose from within the resources available to them.