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Mr. Beggs
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the education authorities in Scotland with the total number of pupils for which each education authority is responsible.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
The total number of pupils at September 1992 in education authority nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, or for whom special arrangements are made under section 14 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980, is shown for each education authority in Scotland.
| Education Authority | Number of pupils |
| Scotland | 797,978 |
| Borders | 15,204 |
| Central | 43,682 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 23,425 |
| Fife | 58,022 |
| Grampian | 80,943 |
| Highland | 35,173 |
| Lothian | 103,688 |
| Strathclyde | 366,076 |
| Tayside | 59,168 |
| Orkney | 3,463 |
Education Authority
| Number of pupils
|
| Shetland | 4,228 |
| Western Isles | 4,906 |
Strathclyde Divisions:
| |
| Argyll and Bute | 9,546 |
| Ayr | 61,108 |
| Dunbarton | 54,541 |
| Glasgow | 99,535 |
| Lanark | 83,256 |
| Renfrew | 58,090 |