In 1982 the BBC quoted a 1980 survey of state schools in Scotland where it was found 1 in 12 girls had been tawsed in , I think, the previous fortnight.( the clip is on Corpun). I quoted elsewhere the survey of 1,000 pupils by the Scottish Council for Educational Research which found 540 girls out of 1,000 ( Margaret Stone, corporal punishment of girls 2002 p42) had been belted in the Scottish school system at some time in their school career. Now both these surveys may not be wholly accurate , they are samples, but they would have to be blatantly manufactured to support the position that girls were rarely if ever tawsed, ( and always on the hand).