- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5817 by Hugh Henry on 10 February 2004, what funding was allocated to local authorities for addressing drug misuse as part of their grant aided expenditure in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) NHS board area.
Answer
Provision of specific resources to local authorities for drug rehabilitation as part of the grant aided expenditure arrangements began in 2001-02. Consequently, there was no such identification in these earlier years.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has paid in subsidies for student loans sold in 1998 and 1999 and whether this represents value for money to the public purse.
Answer
The sale of student loan debt has transferred risk to the private sector and released resources for improving public services. Payment of subsidies is an integral part of the process. The Scottish Executive contribution to total subsidy payments from 1998 to May 2004 is just under £62 million. Provision was made for the on-going payment of the subsidy when the debt was sold.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 16 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-7295 and S2W-8168 by Peter Peacock on 27 April and 25 May 2004 respectively, how many teacher vacancies it projects there will be in each local authority in (a) mathematics, (b) physics, (c) technology and design, (d) modern languages, (e) English, (f) chemistry, (g) biology, (h) art, (i) drama, (j) home economics, (k) computer studies and (l) physical education, in each year to 2007.
Answer
Information in the form requested is not held centrally. The projections that are made by the Scottish Executive are in the National Statistics Publication Notice
Results of Teacher Workforce Planning for 2004-005 and can be accessed using the following hyperlink:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00322-00.asp.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the results of the mapping of supply of, and demand for, further education (FE), broken down by college, will be used to inform future funding and other policy development in the FE sector.
Answer
The national report and eleven area reports are due to be completed by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council in spring 2005. The main purpose of the mapping exercise is to inform the council’s strategic decisions about the allocation of funding to the FE sector.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 16 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has allocated to promote its anti-racism strategies in each of the last three years.
Answer
In the last three years, the Executive spent the following sums to promote race equality and its anti-racism strategies:
2001-02 - £200,000
2002-03 - £1,500,000
2003-04 - £ 903,000.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in mapping the supply of, and demand for, further education; when the mapping exercise will be completed, and whether the results will be broken down by college.
Answer
In February 2004, the Scottish Further Education Funding Council commissioned the second mapping exercise of supply of and demand for further education in Scotland. A national report and eleven area reports are due to be completed in spring 2005. This exercise will build on the work of the first mapping exercise published in 2002 and will develop an analytical framework for examining all post-16 education and training in Scotland. At this point, the funding council’s intention is to publish aggregate results by local area based on existing data for individual colleges and other providers.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 16 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has allocated to organisations that support those who believe that they have been subject to racial discrimination, racial abuse or worse racially-motivated actions in each of the last three years.
Answer
The Commission for Racial Equality, as the statutory body responsible for promoting race equality and tackling race discrimination, provides advice and support to those who may have been the subject of racial discrimination or abuse. As a reserved body, the Commission is funded by the Home Office.
Race Equality Councils also provide a valuable service. Councils are not directly funded by the Executive but it is open to them to apply to the Executive’s Ethnic Minority Grant Scheme, or other funding schemes.
There are, of course, many other general advice and support bodies that can offer assistance in these circumstances.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 16 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will support people who believe that they have been subject to racial discrimination, racial abuse or worse racially-motivated actions.
Answer
The Executive has made clear that racist attacks or harassment, in whatever form, or racial discrimination, will not be tolerated. We encourage people who believe they have been the subject of such behaviour to contact the appropriate authorities, such as the police or the Commission for Racial Equality. The Executive’s anti-racism website
www.onescotland.com provides details of awide range of organisations and groups that can provide advice and support.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 16 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its anti-racism campaigns have a contact telephone number that has been publicised for those who need support because they believe that they have been subject to racial discrimination, racial abuse or worse racially-motivated actions.
Answer
www.onescotland.com, the website developedas part of the Executive’s One Scotland. Many Cultures Campaign, provides contactdetails for a wide range of organisations and groups that can offer advice and support. In addition, the Executive funded One Workplace. Equal Rights project being run by the STUC, offers valuable advice to employees, employers and trade unions on tackling racism and promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. The project has established a website (www.oneworkplace.co.uk)and telephone hotline (0800 027 6655).
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the funding of each further education college is for the current financial year, including any European Structural Funding, and what the funding would have been had it been based on activity levels.
Answer
The recurrent grant provided to Scotland’s further education colleges by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council (SFEFC) is based on agreed targets of student activity. The information on individual funding allocations is as follows:
| College | SFEFC Recurrent Grant 2004-05 | ESF 2004* | ESF 2005* |
| Aberdeen College | £18,780,583 | £191,907 | £61,731 |
| Angus College | £5,433,693 | £55,563 | £38,366 |
| Anniesland College | £6,387,599 | £515,296 | £25,745 |
| Ayr College | £7,029,316 | £189,071 | £153,506 |
| Banff and Buchan College of Further Education | £5,325,688 | £79,431 | £86,101 |
| The Barony College | £1,606,681 | £80,993 | |
| Borders College | £4,854,500 | £140,077 | £121,689 |
| Cardonald College | £9,718,315 | £229,034 | |
| Central College of Commerce | £5,439,763 | | |
| Clackmannan College of Further Education | £3,153,404 | £93,075 | |
| Clydebank College | £7,306,849 | £205,860 | £185,795 |
| Coatbridge College | £4,760,929 | £161,297 | £166,222 |
| Cumbernauld College | £3,874,962 | £204,531 | £78,249 |
| Dumfries and Galloway College | £5,362,317 | £134,676 | £137,431 |
| Dundee College | £13,660,068 | £814,574 | £209,566 |
| Edinburgh's Telford College | £15,453,193 | £132,645 | |
| Elmwood College | £4,216,455 | £29,258 | |
| Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education | £11,332,451 | £597,374 | £142,071 |
| Fife College of Further & Higher Education | £9,183,645 | £325,233 | |
| Glasgow College of Building and Printing | £8,024,497 | £1,066,739 | |
| Glasgow College of Food Technology | £3,878,365 | £25,495 | £29,568 |
| Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | £4,840,932 | £112,994 | |
| Glenrothes College | £6,201,310 | £909,878 | £228,456 |
| Inverness College | £5,735,040 | | |
| James Watt College of Further & Higher Education | £19,721,515 | £752,701 | £46,548 |
| Jewel and Esk Valley College | £8,525,216 | | |
| John Wheatley College | £5,004,411 | | |
| Kilmarnock College | £6,893,431 | £567,743 | £379,898 |
| Langside College | £6,665,973 | £184,761 | |
| Lauder College | £6,977,733 | £575,603 | £21,556 |
| Lews Castle College | £1,566,723 | | |
| Moray College | £3,743,846 | | |
| Motherwell College | £10,941,889 | | |
| Newbattle Abbey College | £328,298 | | |
| North Glasgow College | £6,533,671 | | |
| Oatridge Agricultural College | £2,114,596 | £89,541 | |
| Orkney College | £958,324 | | |
| Perth College | £4,714,158 | | |
| Reid Kerr College | £10,580,641 | £1,201,308 | |
| Sabhal Mor Ostaig | £547,350 | | |
| Shetland College of Further Education | £965,932 | | |
| South Lanarkshire College | £4,696,687 | £204,221 | £96,604 |
| Stevenson College Edinburgh | £11,364,171 | £84,504 | |
| Stow College | £6,568,337 | £130,189 | £128,156 |
| The North Highland College | £3,671,940 | | |
| West Lothian College | £5,571,951 | £69,421 | |
Notes:
*Calendar year
Due to the nature of European Structural Funding it is not possible to break the expenditure down into financial years. The European Commission uses calendar years for Structural Funds and as such the expenditure is recorded that way. Even if the figures could be split into financial years this would not reflect the total picture as more projects will be funded starting in 2005.
