To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will publish in the Official Report the attendance figures for 1990 reported by the national museums and galleries in Scotland, broken down into the individual institutions but including their outstations, with the figures in each case of the percentage increase or decrease on the attendance figures for 1989.

[holding answer 21 January 1991]: The information is as follows:

	1990	Percentage Change since 1989
National Galleries of Scotland	808,803	+13·98
National Museums of Scotland	1,001,827	+11·39

The national galleries of Scotland comprise the national gallery of Scotland, the Scottish national gallery of modern art and the Scottish national portrait gallery. The national museums of Scotland comprise the royal museum of Scotland buildings at Chambers street and Queen street,

	October 1988	September 1989	July 1990	Percentage change 1988 to 1989	Percentage change 1989 to 1990
Borders	82,840	77,935	78,285	-5·9	0·4
Central	n/a	206,389	204,412	n/a	-1·9
Dumfries and Galloway	110,859	111,326	111,434	0·4	0·1
Fife	253,500	269,058	259,961	6·1	-3·4
Grampian	377,766	377,785	373,581	0·0	-1·1
Highland	n/a	147,771	148,270	n/a	0·3
Lothian	589,209	604,320	578,982	2·6	-4·2
Strathclyde	1,786,017	1,761,450	1,737,284	-1·4	-1·4
Tayside	290,700	295,490	291,682	1·6	-1·3
Orkney	14,775	14,329	14,372	-3·0	0·3
Shetland	16,459	16,021	15,982	-2·7	-0·2
Western Isles	n/a	22,315	22,165	n/a	-0·7
All Scotland total	n/a	3,904,189	3,834,410	n/a	-1·8

n/a: Not available.