- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the comments made by the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning to the Enterprise and Culture Committee on 1 November 2005 (Official Report c. 2352), what the Student Awards Agency for Scotland's funding line in the budget would have been had it not been affected by the £28 million consideration as a result of the change to HM Treasury discount rate.
Answer
If there had been no change to the discount rate, the reduction in 2005-06 of £28 million would not have arisen. The Student Awards Agency for Scotland’s funding line in 2005-06 would be increased by £28 million from £368,639,000 to £396,639,000.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the operating surplus made by the Student Loans Company Ltd the Executive has received in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Student Loans Company operates as a non-departmental public body and therefore has no operating surplus or any reserves.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many customer accounts the Student Loans Company Ltd maintains for Scottish domiciled borrowers.
Answer
The Student Loans Company currently maintains the customer accounts for 312,800 Scottish domiciled borrowers with public debt.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of Scottish domiciled student loan borrowers were in deferment in each year of the operation of student loans, broken down by year of entering repayment.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-20433 on 16 November 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total pay-out to Scottish domiciled students from the Student Loans Company Ltd was in 2003-04 and how many students received these payments.
Answer
In 2003-04 the total pay-out to Scottish domiciled students from the Student Loans Company Ltd was £223,332,000. The number of students who received payment was 123,445.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 494,000 deferment application forms processed by the Student Loans Company Ltd in 2003-04 were from Scottish domiciled repayers.
Answer
Of the 494,000 deferment applications processed by the Student Loans Company in 2003-04, just under 70,000 were from Scottish domiciled repayers.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Student Loans Company Ltd part-time student loans were paid out to Scottish domiciled students in 2003-04.
Answer
In 2003-04 the Student Loans Company paid out 626 part-time loans to Scottish domiciled students.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Student Loans Company Ltd hardship loans were paid out to Scottish domiciled students in 2003-04.
Answer
In 2003-04 the Student Loans Company paid out 2,555 Hardship Loans to Scottish domiciled students.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 22 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19044 by Nicol Stephen on 21 September 2005, whether it has seen provisional results from the Scottish survey on students’ income, expenditure and debt 2004-05 and whether it has requested a revision or revisions of the findings.
Answer
The survey was run on the same terms as any other Social Research study. It was commissioned by the Scottish Executive from independent researchers, who are experts in the field – they completed several similar studies for the Department for Education and Skills.
The project was overseen by a Research Advisory Group consisting of Scottish Executive officials and external members. The day-to-day management of the project was undertaken by the Analytical Services Division responsible for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning. Project management included detailed exchanges on all aspects of the project, including emerging results, which were discussed by the Research Advisory Group in the presence of the researchers. The final report emanating from this process contains the facts that were found by the researchers and carries their name. Ministers were briefed on the final report recently and have not requested any changes.
I look forward to a full, public and informed debate of the findings after publication.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 November 2005
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 22 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19044 by Nicol Stephen on 21 September 2005, whether the Scottish survey on students’ income, expenditure and debt 2004-05 will be as detailed as the Student Income and Expenditure Survey conducted by Professor Claire Callender, referred to in the answer to question S1W-30199.
Answer
The Scottish survey of Student Income, Expenditure and Debt runs to 260 pages and contains over 100 tables.
