- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students domiciled in Scotland have their grandparents’ income taken into account in assessments to determine levels of student support.
Answer
In academic year 2006-07 the Student Awards Agency for Scotland included the income of at least one grandparent in the assessment of levels of support for 165 Scottish-domiciled students.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students domiciled in Scotland whose parental income is taken into account in determining levels of student support have at least one parent who receives working tax credit.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Information on parental receipt of working tax credit is currently not taken into account in the assessment of student support by the Students Awards Agency for Scotland and therefore is not collected.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students domiciled in Scotland whose parental income is taken into account in determining levels of student support have at least one step-parent.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students will lose bursary income as a result of changes to student support in 2008-09.
Answer
Under the previous Scottish Executive, the information we would need to be able to calculate how many students will lose bursary income as a result of the changes to student support in 2008-09 was not collected.
In spite of this, the Scottish Government did attempt to model the cost involved in estimating how many students in Scotland will see a reduction in the grant or bursary or student support that they currently receive due to the means testing arrangements. However, because the information referred to above is not available, it has not been possible to produce accurate forecasts.
Money will be available to students who are in genuine financial hardship through the discretionary funds we provide to colleges and universities.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students will lose student loan income as a result of the changes to means-testing for student support.
Answer
Under the previous Scottish Executive, the information we would need to be able to calculate how many students will lose student loan income as a result of the changes to means-testing for student support in 2008-09 was not collected.
In spite of this, the Scottish Government did attempt to model the cost involved in estimating how many students in Scotland will see a reduction in the grant or bursary or student support that they currently receive due to the means testing arrangements. However, because the information referred to above is not available, it has not been possible to produce accurate forecasts.
Money will be available to students who are in genuine financial hardship through the discretionary funds we provide to colleges and universities.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students will lose bursary income as a result of the changes to means-testing for student support.
Answer
Under the previous Scottish Executive, the information we would need to be able to calculate how many students will lose bursary income as a result of the changes to means-testing for student support in 2008-09 was not collected.
In spite of this, the Scottish Government did attempt to model the cost involved in estimating how many students in Scotland will see a reduction in the grant or bursary or student support that they currently receive due to the means testing arrangements. However, because the information referred to above is not available, it has not been possible to produce accurate forecasts.
Money will be available to students who are in genuine financial hardship through the discretionary funds we provide to colleges and universities.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to alleviate the financial impact on older people and those on low incomes of increases in water and sewerage charges.
Answer
All low income households, including low income pensioner households, already receive reductions in their water services charges.
The focus of the Scottish Government''s general policy is the achievement by Scottish Water of substantial efficiency savings to keep charges down for all water customers. As a result water services bills are set to rise by less than inflation for the third consecutive year.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been for underage drinking in Grampian in the last five years.
Answer
The available information from the Scottish Government Court Proceedings Database (for which the latest year available is 2005-06) is given in the following table.
Persons with a Charge Proved for Underage Drinking1,2 in Grampian Police Force Area, 2001-02 to 2005-06
| | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| Grampian | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Notes:
1. Where main offence.
2. Includes persons aged under 18 with a charge proved for buying excisable liquor or consuming in a bar, or for contraventions of bye-laws prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in designated places.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the last conviction was for underage drinking in Grampian.
Answer
The information held centrally in the Scottish Government Court Proceedings Database is an historical snapshot rather than real-time information, and so information on the last conviction recorded is based on the latest year of data held (2005-06). The last person under the age of 18 with charge proved in this data, where the main offence related to underage drinking in Grampian police force area, had a sentence date of 27 February 2006. Offences included are buying excisable liquor or consuming in a bar, or for contraventions of bye-laws prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in designated places.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact not increasing the Bus Service Operators Grant would have on bus fares in (a) Aberdeen, (b) Aberdeenshire and (c) Angus.
Answer
Ultimately, the level of fares and the provision of bus services is a matter for individual bus operators who use their own commercial judgement in these matters. The Scottish Government currently provides substantial funds to the bus industry of around £260 million a year. This covers Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG), concessionary fares, local authority supported services and Bus Route Development Grant. Following the budget statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 6 February 2008, I can confirm that it is our intention that the budget for BSOG will be around £61 million in 2008-09.
