To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the sum total of Government grants received by Timex Corporation and Timex Electronic Corporation in relation to their Dundee factories since 1980, indicating the year, amount and nature of each grant.
The principal sources of Government grants available to Timex Corporation and subsequently Timex Electronics Corporation since 1980 have comprised regional development grant—RDG—and regional selec-tive assistance—RSA. Comprehensive records on the RDG 1 scheme, which was terminated in 1984, are not retained. No grants were made in respect of the RDG II scheme which was terminated in 1988. Offers of RSA under which payments were made were as follows:
| Year of offer | Amount offered |
| 1983 | £700,000 |
| 1985 | £270,000 |
| 1987 | £865,000 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the number and proportion of children receiving school meals broken down into (a) paid and (b) free in (i) primary schools, (ii) secondary schools and (iii) special schools in each year since 1987–88.
[holding answer 16 June 1993]: The information requested, taken from the annual school meals census returns for each year since 1987–88, is as follows:
| School Meals Survey: Schools/Departments | ||||||
| Meals paid | Meals free | Total | ||||
| Pupils | 1Per cent. | Pupils | 1Per cent. | Pupils | 1Per cent. | |
| Primary | ||||||
| 1987–88 | 106,319 | 26·3 | 126,303 | 31·2 | 232,622 | 57·5 |
| 1988–89 | 134,411 | 33·8 | 71,257 | 17·7 | 207,668 | 51·4 |
| 1989–90 | 142,737 | 35·4 | 69,862 | 17·3 | 212,599 | 52·7 |
| 1990–91 | 141,612 | 35·0 | 72,437 | 17·9 | 214,049 | 52·9 |
| 1991–92 | 135,871 | 33·8 | 76,792 | 19·1 | 212,663 | 52·9 |
| Secondary | ||||||
| 1987–88 | 75,573 | 26·9 | 41,853 | 14·9 | 117,426 | 41·8 |
| 1988–89 | 73,318 | 27·9 | 27,384 | 10·4 | 100,702 | 38·3 |
| 1989–90 | 83,894 | 33·1 | 23,449 | 9·2 | 107,343 | 42·2 |
| 1990–91 | 85,249 | 34·7 | 23,505 | 9·6 | 108,754 | 44·2 |
| 1991–92 | 88,680 | 36·1 | 24,809 | 10·1 | 113,489 | 46·1 |
| Special | ||||||
| 1987–88 | 1,603 | 20·5 | 5,856 | 74·8 | 7,459 | 95·2 |
| 1988–89 | 1,940 | 25·3 | 4,868 | 63·4 | 6,808 | 88·7 |
| 1989–90 | 2,068 | 28·8 | 4,343 | 60·6 | 6,411 | 89·4 |
| 1990–91 | 1,881 | 26·7 | 4,418 | 62·7 | 6,299 | 89·4 |
| 1991–92 | 1,710 | 24·5 | 4,275 | 61·2 | 5,985 | 85·7 |
| 1 Percentage of pupils present on day of survey. | ||||||
Note: In a number of cases, figures for special classes or units forming part of a primary or secondary school are included with the figures for that primary or secondary.