Chamber and committees

The information you have requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.

The number of Scottish domiciled students studying at universities across the UK is published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Data can be split by entrant marker, level of study and mode of study.

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb273/figure-9

Data is not held on the total number of Scottish domiciled students studying on courses overseas.

Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) manages the Scotch and Specially Selected assurance schemes, including their marketing and branding, helping to highlight the quality and provenance behind them.

This activity is funded through levy payments as per the Quality Meat Scotland Order 2008. No Scottish Government funding has been provided to assist in the promotion of Scotch Beef, Scotch Lamb or Specially Selected Pork since 2021. In addition, no promotional funding has been provided to any organisation for game.

In 2025-26, the Scottish Government is providing £45,000 of support for the venison sector which includes £20,000 towards enhancing the Scottish Quality Wild Venison Assurance Scheme, as well as £8,000 towards implementing a promotional work programme, alongside others including the Soil Association and Food for Life, that will inform public sector buyers around venison.

The Scottish public sector delivers a wide range of digital services, and ensuring these are secure and resilient is critical. For more than five years, the Scottish Government has encouraged public bodies to adopt a proactive, risk-based governance approach, anchored in clear board-level accountability, to strengthen their cyber resilience.

The refreshed Strategic Framework for a Cyber Resilient Scotland (published November 2025) sets out the key priorities to build the cyber resilience maturity of the public sector. These include implementing robust security standards, controls and governance; maintaining and routinely testing incident response plans; ensuring staff are well-trained; and embedding learning from cyber incidents across Scotland and beyond.

The Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3) plays a central role in coordinating multi-agency responses to cyber incidents affecting the public sector. SC3 provides national support by working directly with organisations, sharing real-time and emerging threat intelligence and helping them mitigate risks. This strengthens preparedness for cyber incidents and ensures public bodies have the standards, tools and skills they need to build strong cyber resilience and fend off attacks.

In addition, the Scottish Government hosts quarterly Public Sector Cyber Resilience Network webinars, bringing together cyber and information security professionals from more than 180 public bodies. These sessions enable the sharing of good practice and lessons learned, provide updates on evolving threats and risks and help identify common challenges where government support.

The Scottish Government is not a formal reporting agency for cyber attacks or data breaches and therefore does not record the costs of ransomware attacks to public sector bodies, beyond the basic notifications encouraged by the voluntary Scottish Public Sector Cyber Incident Notification Procedure.

The following table captures the number of GlobalScots registered across 2023 - 2026:

The GlobalScot network is administered by Scottish Enterprise. As this is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise, I have asked their CEO, Adrian Gillespie to respond to you directly.

The Scottish Government has provided over £8m of funding to NHS Grampian in support of return of obstetric maternity services to Dr Grays since 2023, with a further £1.4m committed for 2024-25. NHS Grampian have appointed consultant obstetricians, paediatricians, midwives and nurses to support the service. Since 2024 NHS Grampian have reintroduced obsetric day care assessment, scanning services and elective caesarean sections to Dr Grays. Recruitment is ongoing for additional obstetricians, anaesthetists and theatre staff with the expectation that full obstetric maternity services will be returned in 2026.

The following table captures the number of businesses registered on the GlobalScot platform:

The GlobalScot network is administered by Scottish Enterprise. As this is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise, I have asked their CEO, Adrian Gillespie to respond to you directly.