Current status: Answered by John Swinney on 28 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to upgrade primary school buildings in the Highlands.
The 1980 Education (Scotland) Act places a statutory responsibility on local authorities to provide and maintain schools across Scotland.
However, through this Government's Schools for the Future programme we are currently replacing three primary schools, Craighill, Knockbreck and St Duthus as part of a new 3 to 18 Campus in Tain including Tain Royal Academy. Further to this we are also replacing another three secondary schools in Highland as part of a significant investment package of almost £63million to the Council, the second largest beneficiary from the programme.