Chamber and committees

Question reference: S5W-21966

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: 7 March 2019
Current status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 21 March 2019

Question

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of comments by its spokesman in The Courier on 7 March 2019, what “additional measures” the “access data working group” has considered alongside the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) to increase access to university.

Answer

The measures that the group examined in detail were:

Free school meals
Education Maintenance Allowance
SAAS higher education bursary income data

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