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Mr. Andrew Welsh
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report, using population changes for those aged 17 and over, the 1986 forecast of the expected percentage change of the number of people on the electoral register in Scotland for 1987–88.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
The latest available projection is 1985-based and shows a change of plus 0·28 per cent. between mid-1987 and mid-1988 for the population of Scotland aged 17 and over.