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Scottish Office

Answer

Ms Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many councillors are (a) men and (b) women in each local authority in Scotland. [65304] Mr. McLeish: The information in the table was compiled and supplied by the Scottish Local Government Unit. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total number of: Council All Councillors Male Councillors Women Councillors Women Councillors (percentage) Aberdeen City 50 35 15 30.0 Aberdeenshire 47 33 14 29.8 Angus 26 21 5 19.2 Argyll & Bute 33 30 3 9.1 Clackmannanshire 12 10 2 16.7 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 30 27 3 10.0 Dumfries & Galloway 70 62 8 11.4 Dundee City 36 27 9 25.0 East Ayrshire 30 24 6 20.0 East Dunbartonshire 26 20 6 23.1 East Lothian 18 15 3 16.7 East Renfrewshire 20 17 3 15.0 Edinburgh, City of 58 39 19 32.8 Falkirk 36 28 8 22.2 Fife 92 59 33 35.9 Glasgow City 83 58 25 30.1 Highland 72 61 11 15.3 Inverclyde 20 17 3 15.0 Midlothian 15 14 1 6.7 Moray 18 11 7 38.9 North Ayrshire 30 24 6 20.0 North Lanarkshire 69 64 5 7.2 Orkney Islands 28 21 7 25.0 Perth & Kinross 32 26 6 18.8 Renfrewshire 40 28 12 30.0 Scottish Borders 58 51 7 12.1 Shetland Islands 26 20 6 23.1 South Ayrshire 25 15 10 40.0 South Lanarkshire 74 56 18 24.3 Stirling 22 14 8 35.4 West Dunbartonshire 22 19 3 13.6 West Lothian 27 23 4 14.8 Scotland 1,245 969 276 22.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: Scottish Local Government Information Unit--July 1998

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

65304; 323 c209-11W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Councillors Women Local government Men Scotland

Contains statistics

Yes