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Information regarding laptops and tablets provided to school children: FOI release
Information requested
Details of the total number of laptops and tablets which have been given to schoolchildren in Scotland as at 30th September 2021 and if possible, broken down by school and by local authority area.
Response
The latest figures we have are as at end June 2021.
The following figures only include devices procured and distributed via our investment of £25m in the 2020-21 financial year to support digital inclusion for disadvantaged children and young people across Scotland, during the period when schools were closed due to Covid. The figures do not include individual local authority approaches to digital inclusion.
We do not hold information on the breakdown of devices at school level.
Local Authority Device Distributed Aberdeen City 1777 Aberdeenshire 5008 Angus 2420 Argyll and Bute 1317 City of Edinburgh 2605 Clackmannanshire 828 Dumfries and Galloway 2371 Dundee City 2050 East Ayrshire 1837 East Dunbartonshire 1015 East Lothian 1806 East Renfrewshire 623 Falkirk 1840 Fife 5465 Glasgow City 7240 Highland 4499 Inverclyde 1107 Midlothian 1235 Moray 1315 Na h-Eileanan Siar 357 North Ayrshire 1734 North Lanarkshire 6026 Orkney Islands 275 Perth and Kinross 1507 Renfrewshire 1800 Scottish Borders 316 Shetland Islands 475 South Ayrshire 1512 South Lanarkshire 5544 Stirling 1794 West Dunbartonshire 2084 West Lothian 2905 Total 72687
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