- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 26 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total estimated cost to the Scottish budget is of the changeover to resource account budgeting.
Answer
The cost of the change was met from within existing administration budgets.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 10 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the funding distributed from the Scottish budget was distributed through non-departmental public bodies in each year for which figures are available, given as a cash figure and as a percentage of the overall budget.
Answer
Annex 2 of the 2000 Annual Expenditure Report,
Investing In You shows Non-Departmental Public Bodies expenditure within Total Budget for 1994-95 to 2000-01.This is published on the Scottish Executive's website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library2/doc14/iiy-20.aspThe table shows these figures expressed as a percentage of Total Budget:
| £ million cash | 1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
| NDPB expenditure | 1903.8 | 1959.2 | 1990.9 | 1961.5 | 2011.6 | 2048.2 |
| Total Budget | 14278 | 14940 | 14850 | 15254 | 16303 | 16852 |
| NDPB as % Total Budget | 13.3 | 13.1 | 13.4 | 12.9 | 12.3 | 12.2 |
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 10 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of net public sector capital investment in Scotland was in each year for which figures are available.
Answer
The table sets out capital expenditure in the public sector for the period 1999-2000 to 2003-04.
1999-2000 actual | 2000-01 plan | 2001-02 plan | 2002-03 plan | 2003-04 plan |
£ million | £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million |
1,768 | 1,998 | 2,283 | 2,409 | 2,515 |
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 6 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8508 by Mr Tom McCabe on 30 August 2000, on how many occasions since 10 July 2000 it has asked back-bench MSPs to lodge parliamentary questions in order to enable it to make an announcement, whether it will provide a list of such questions including the date on which they were lodged, and whether any of its officials have written authorisations to lodge parliamentary questions in the names of back-bench MSPs.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-14451. It remains the case that officials do not have authorisation to lodge questions on behalf of members.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 5 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average si'e is of (a) a primary and (b) a secondary school class.
Answer
The latest information from the 1999 school census shows that the average class size in publicly funded primary schools was 24.6. This figure covers both single stage and composite classes. A composite class includes children from more than one stage - for example P1 and P2.Most secondary school pupils are members of different class groupings for different subjects. Information about average class size is therefore generally regarded as less helpful than information about the average pupil: teacher ratio (PTR).Collection of information about average class sizes in secondary schools is time consuming for schools and was discontinued in 1997. Information about secondary PTRs is provided in the answer to S1W-13585.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 5 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has cost to value all of the capital assets of its core and associated departments and its agencies in preparation for the introduction of a resource account budgeting system and what the estimated ongoing costs will be of assessing the value of these assets.
Answer
Preparation for resource accounting and budgeting began some 5 years ago. For the core and associated departments the initial set-up costs amounted to £170k, and estimated annualised ongoing costs amount to c£40k.Agencies have been producing annual accounts for several years and have not incurred any additional cost in preparation for the introduction of the resource account budgeting system. Their estimated annualised ongoing costs are of the order of £30k.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 5 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on new capital investment in and refurbishment of Scottish Executive property in each year for which figures are available, specifying the amount spent in each year on each project.
Answer
Responsibility for property, including refurbishments, was delegated to the Scottish Office from Property Holdings (an Agency of the Cabinet Office) on 1 April 1996. These responsibilities were assumed by the Scottish Executive on 1 July 1999.The cost of refurbishment (excluding maintenance, repairs and minor works) since 1 April 1996 is shown in the table.
| Project | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 *Estimated |
| St Andrew's House Refurbishment | | | £1.47m | £7.07m | £4.94m |
| Saughton HouseConversion of areas to provide additional staff accommodation | | £0.06m | £0.04m | £0.12m | £0.02m |
Expenditure on refurbishment projects comprises both capital and current expenditure under the present accounting rules.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 5 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all the official correspondence it has received on the issue of housing in Cumbernauld.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has received four letters in this connection since 1 April 2000 and a number of representations have been made to the Minister by Cathie Craigie, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 28 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Her Majesty's Treasury regarding the categories of comparable expenditure which will be used in assessing the annual changes in funding to accommodate capital charge payments from the Scottish budget.
Answer
Capital charges are currently classified as Annually Managed Expenditure (AME). The main component of AME comprises the Resource Accounting and Budgeting (RAB) adjustments such as capital charges, etc. AME is not subject to the Barnett formula and funding is agreed annually in discussion with HM Treasury.
- Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 23 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers were employed per (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupil in each year for which figures are available and how many are expected to be employed in any future years for which projections are available.
Answer
Historical figures for pupil:teacher ratios are published regularly in Statistical Bulletins. The following table sets out the pupil:teacher ratio for publicly funded primary and secondary schools for selected years since 1980 together with the fraction of a teacher per pupil derived from them. Projections on a similar basis from 2000 up to 2015 are also given. These projections take into account the additional teachers planned following the recent agreement on teachers pay and conditions.
| Year (September) | Number of teachers (FTE) per primary pupil | Number of teachers (FTE) per secondary pupil | Number of pupils per primary teacher(FTE) | Number of pupils per secondary teacher (FTE) |
| 1980 | 0.049 | 0.070 | 20.3 | 14.4 |
| 1985 | 0.049 | 0.074 | 20.4 | 13.5 |
| 1990 | 0.051 | 0.082 | 19.5 | 12.2 |
| 1995 | 0.051 | 0.078 | 19.5 | 12.9 |
| 1996 | 0.051 | 0.077 | 19.6 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 0.050 | 0.076 | 19.9 | 13.2 |
| 1998 | 0.052 | 0.077 | 19.4 | 13.0 |
| 1999 | 0.052 | 0.078 | 19.1 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 0.053 | 0.078 | 18.9 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 0.053 | 0.078 | 18.8 | 12.9 |
| 2002 | 0.055 | 0.078 | 18.3 | 12.8 |
| 2003 | 0.056 | 0.078 | 17.8 | 12.8 |
| 2004 | 0.058 | 0.079 | 17.3 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 0.059 | 0.079 | 17.0 | 12.7 |
| 2006 | 0.059 | 0.079 | 16.9 | 12.7 |
| 2010 | 0.060 | 0.080 | 16.7 | 12.5 |
| 2015 | 0.060 | 0.081 | 16.7 | 12.4 |
