Question reference: S6W-14283
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 24 January 2023
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Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 February 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the annual operating cost of the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy in each of the final three years in which it ran.
Answer
The Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN) was an annual sample survey which monitored national performance of school children at P4, P7 and S2 in literacy and numeracy in alternate years. Operating costs are set out in the following table and are broken down by element of spend. As Support Assessors were funded to facilitate group discussions between pupils as part of the Listening and Talking assessment, these costs are only associated with the years that the literacy survey took place.
£000s | £000s | £000s | |
2014 (Literacy survey) | 2015 (Numeracy survey) | 2016 (Literacy survey) | |
SQA grant funding | 615 | 774 | 682 |
Support Assessors | 117 | - | 117 |
SG analytical staff costs | 175 | 210 | 210 |
Cost of compliance | 398 | 460 | 394 |
Total | 1,305 | 1,444 | 1,403 |