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Question reference: S3W-37797

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 9 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimated number of people earns the minimum wage or less in the Dundee (a) West and (b) East parliamentary constituency.

The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

Due to the size of the sample in the ASHE it is not possible to provide estimates for the number of people earning the minimum wage or less in Dundee West or Dundee East parliamentary constituencies. It is also not possible to provide an estimate for the Dundee City local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-37802

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Glasgow received a bursary in 2009-10.

Question reference: S3W-37803

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Glasgow who have received a dental bursary since 2006-07 now work in NHS dentistry, also broken down by NHS board, and what percentage of students receiving a bursary this represents.

The following table reports the number of bursary recipients in the NHSScotland dental workforce data at 30 September 2009 (the latest available data).

NHS Board	Dundee	%	Glasgow	%
Ayrshire and Arran	5	21.74	18	78.26
Borders	0		0
Fife	11	84.62	2	15.83
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	10	15.63	54	84.38
Highland	9	52.94	8	47.06
Lanarkshire	7	12.5	49	87.5
Grampian	15	65.22	8	34.78
Orkney	1	50.00	1	50.00
Lothian	15	50.00	15	50.00
Tayside	49	92.45	4	7.55
Forth Valley	4	21.05	15	78.95
Western Isles			2	100.00
Dumfries and Galloway	1	50.00	1	50.00
Shetland	1	50.00	1	50.00

The following table reports the proportion of students who received a bursary, have graduated and were in the NHSScotland dental workforce data at 30 September 2009. This is not broken down by NHS board because dentists may work in multiple NHS boards simultaneously.

	Proportion of Bursary Recipients
Dundee	0.84
Glasgow	0.82

Proportion of

Bursary Recipients

Dundee

0.84

Glasgow

0.82

Question reference: S3W-37800

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 8 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many and (b) what percentage of school leavers entered full-time higher or further education in the (i) Dundee City and (ii) Angus Council area in each of the last four years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-37801

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 6 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on dental bursaries in 2009-10 for students at the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Glasgow.

The Dental Bursary scheme provides £4,000 per year to anyone studying Dentistry in Scotland who can commit to the required retention period with NHS Scotland (up to a maximum of five years or equivalent part-time period). For University of Glasgow and University of Dundee students it is available from year two of their degree.

The following table shows the total amount of money paid in dental bursaries to students at University of Dundee and University of Glasgow in academic session 2009-10.

Payments made in Dental Bursaries to Students at University of Glasgow and University of Dundee “ 2009-10

University of Dundee	University of Glasgow
£968,000	£1,248,000

Question reference: S3W-37796

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 2 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the Scottish Funding Council allocation has been to (a) the University of Dundee, (b) the University of Abertay, Dundee, and (c) Dundee College in each of the last four financial years for which information is available, also expressed in real terms.

Details of the Scottish Funding Council''s (SFC''s) allocations to colleges and universities, in cash terms, can be found on its website at http://www.sfc.ac.uk/.

Details of the allocations to the institutions referred to above, in cash and real terms, are shown in the following tables.

	Financial Year
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
University Abertay (cash)	£21,145,902	£20,897,766	£20,061,700	£23,733,253
University of Dundee (cash)	£92,230,829	£78,268,473	£88,451,050	£89,980,671
Dundee College (cash)	£26,071,274	£24,943,081	£35,432,758	£48,818,481

	Financial Year
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
University of Abertay (real terms “ 2009-10 prices)	£22,724,578	£21,832,412	£20,395,990	£23,733,253
University of Dundee (real terms - 2009-10 prices)	£99,116,449	£81,769,004	£89,924,919	£89,980,671
Dundee College (real terms - 2009-10 prices)	£28,017,661	£26,058,652	£36,023,178	£48,818,481

Sources: SFC and Scottish Government.

Question reference: S3W-37799

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 2 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of employed adults in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus worked from home in their main job in each of the last five years for which information is available.

The information requested is set out in the following table. The data for Dundee City cannot be given as the estimates were found to be unreliable. Part (a) shows the percentage of employed adults who worked from home in their main job.

Percentage of Employed Adults in Angus who Worked from Home in their Main Job

Year
April 2004 to March 2005	5.1%
April 2005 to March 2006	5.0%
April 2006 to March 2007	4.5%
April 2007 to March 2008	5.8%
April 2008 to March 2009	5.3%
April 2009 to March 2010	4.3%

Source: Annual Population Survey, April to March datasets.

Notes:

1. Employed adults includes all aged 16 and over in employment or self-employment.

2. Adults who worked from home includes those who work from home and those who work in the same grounds or buildings as their home. The estimates do not include those who work in different places but use their home as a base.

3. Data based on sample surveys. None of the changes between years are statistically significant.

Question reference: S3W-37795

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 1 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much research–related funding the Scottish Funding Council has provided to the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Abertay, Dundee, in each of the last four financial years for which information is available.

Over the last four academic years, the Scottish Funding Council has provided the Universities of Dundee and Abertay Dundee with the following levels of research-related funding:

	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Dundee	26,446,462	28,495,296	26,271,928	27,046,430
Abertay Dundee	1,266,380	1,238,820	1,284,834	1,195,688

The Scottish Funding Council''s research-related funding is provided on an academic rather than a financial year basis and comprises:

Research Excellence Grant or Main Quality Research Grant

Research Postgraduate Grant

Knowledge Transfer Grant

Research Development Foundation Grant

(Scottish) Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme

Strategic Research Development Grant.

An additional £10 million is also being provided over three years to support the development of the Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling at the University of Dundee.

Question reference: S3W-37798

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 1 December 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time university students in the (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus Council area have received a bursary in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Bursary (i.e. non-repayable) support for full-time university students is available from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS). The most recent available data comes from academic session 2009-10. The following table shows the number of bursary recipients from Angus and Dundee city in academic sessions 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10.

Table 1: Number of full-time University students from Angus or Dundee City who received non-repayable bursary support, 2007-08 to 2009-10:

Academic Year	Angus	Dundee	Total
2007-08	1,015	1,350	2,365
2008-09	895	1,370	2,265
2009-10	900	1,415	2,315

Source: Management information provided to Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) by institutions.

Notes:

1. Student numbers have been rounded up or down to the nearest 5 e.g. 1, 2 round to 0; 3, 4 round to 5.

2. Each student is counted only once, irrespective of how many award types they receive.

3. Postcode information supplied by students upon application was used to determine which local authority the students resided in. A small number of students did not supply information that could be used in this way and these students are not included in the figures above.

4. The figures in the tables above are based on students'' home address, not term-time address that may be different.

Question reference: S3W-37624

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 30 November 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, following publication of Scotland’s Spending Plans and Draft Budget 2011-12, how much capital funding it will provide for the V&A at Dundee project.

The Scottish Government''s Draft Budget for 2011-12 includes sufficient funding for the project feasibility and design stages to proceed. Overall the Scottish Government will make a significant capital contribution to the project, providing a sound funding basis to which the partnership can add from other sources to enable the project to proceed. Details are being discussed with the partnership.