Question reference: S4W-25163
- Asked by: Margaret McDougall, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 20 April 2015
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Current status: Answered by Angela Constance on 5 May 2015
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers it appropriate to advise colleges to use depreciation funds to cover shortfalls in student support funds and what it is doing to assist colleges that do not have such funds available.
Answer
By taking decisive action around this technical accounting issue, we have protected the college sector’s ability to spend its full budget allocation and, in doing so, have filled the student support gap in 2014-15.