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The number of staff at Scottish higher education institutions and colleges during the past four academic years broken down by employment function is shown in the following table.

Number of Staff at Scottish Institutions

Academic Year	HEIs		Colleges
	Academic Staff	Non Academic Staff	Teaching Staff	Non Teaching Staff
2007-08	16,570	22,410	12,710	8,680
2006-07	16,360	21,935	12,695	8,890
2005-06	16,020	21,845	12,780	8,725
2004-05	15,310	21,690	13,170	8,445

Sources: HESA “ excluding atypical staff; Scottish Funding Council.

Notes:

Figures in this table have been rounded to the nearest five.

Zero, one and two have been rounded to zero.

Data for 2008-09 will become available in January 2010.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-21538 on 11 March 2009. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

The number of houses completed by registered social landlords (RSLs) or local authorities in the last five years is shown in the following table. These exclude conversions of existing buildings and Off the Shelf purchases by RSLs.

There is no centrally held source of information on projections of new registered social landlord or local authority housing.

Table 1: Social sector New Build Housing Completions, 2003-04 to 2007-08

	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Scotland	3,368	4,024	4,698	3,237	4,125
Aberdeen City	35	47	128	11	100
Aberdeenshire	125	238	207	77	86
Angus	80	95	43	55	112
Argyll and Bute	81	47	85	69	127
Clackmannanshire	58	20	27	42	0
Dumfries and Galloway	128	81	141	63	276
Dundee City	145	328	340	0	116
East Ayrshire	0	6	10	30	80
East Dunbartonshire	4	7	142	0	26
East Lothian	30	145	35	51	80
East Renfrewshire	0	19	46	37	0
Edinburgh, City of	183	389	398	439	484
Eilean Siar	0	19	53	21	41
Falkirk	16	4	0	69	0
Fife	120	107	236	317	228
Glasgow City	1,239	802	951	821	773
Highland	139	131	145	265	375
Inverclyde	101	103	117	8	58
Midlothian	26	0	9	16	40
Moray	2	55	158	34	100
North Ayrshire	71	71	79	64	139
North Lanarkshire	144	123	442	82	65
Orkney	0	59	13	50	37
Perth and Kinross	153	150	112	68	124
Renfrewshire	78	165	278	98	115
Scottish Borders, The	41	79	50	46	69
Shetland	0	4	0	47	12
South Ayrshire	42	92	19	68	62
South Lanarkshire	111	285	136	154	134
Stirling	61	67	47	0	133
West Dunbartonshire	110	121	241	71	48
West Lothian	45	165	10	64	85

Sources:

Notes:

NB1 returns by local authorities to the Scottish Government, Communities Analytical Services (Housing Statistics).

Scottish Government Affordable Housing Investment Programme database.

This information is not available in the format requested.

Estimates of the value of intra-UK exports from Scotland are calculated from data collected via the Global Connections Survey. This survey does not collect data relating to the local authority area of the source of exports.

The most recent published statistics relating to intra-UK exports are taken from the Global Connections Survey for the year 2005. The value of intra-UK exports from Scotland in the year 2005 was estimated to be £41,515 million.

This information is not available in the format requested.

Estimates of the value of international exports from Scotland are calculated from data collected via the Global Connections Survey. This survey does not collect data relating to the local authority area of the source of exports.

The most recent published statistics relating to international exports are taken from the Global Connections Survey for the year 2007. The value of international exports from Scotland in the year 2007 was estimated to be £20,630 million.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-21496 on 10 March 2009. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

An in-year reallocation of Higher Education Discretionary Funds takes place in late January or early February each year. This year the reallocation process was completed by 13 February 2009. This re-allocation of funds is for higher education students in both colleges and universities. The Higher Education Discretionary Funds consist of:

The Undergraduate Discretionary Fund

The Postgraduate Discretionary Fund

The Part-time Discretionary Fund

The Childcare Discretionary Fund.

Higher Education Discretionary Fund allocations for each year are intended to provide institutions with a source of additional funding which they can then use to assist students in financial difficulty and who are at risk of not completing their course. The funds are intended to be spent within the year in which they are allocated, thus providing the maximum sum available to students in each individual year. Any unspent funds are returned for redistribution in the following academic year and are thus put straight back into the discretionary funds system.

The vast majority of funds should therefore be exhausted in the academic year for which they are allocated.

Academic Year 2006-07

A total of five institutions exhausted both their Higher Education Discretionary and Childcare Funds. These were:

Ayr College

Barony College

Glasgow Metropolitan College

North Glasgow College

Reid Kerr College.

A further five institutions exhausted only their Discretionary Fund allocation:

Banff and Buchan College

John Wheatley College

Newbattle Abbey College

Edinburgh College of Art

St Andrews University

A further three institutions exhausted only their Childcare Fund:

Borders College

Queen Margaret University College

RSAMD.

Academic Year 2007-08

A total of three institutions exhausted both their Higher Education Discretionary and Childcare Funds:

Barony College

Dundee College

Reid Kerr College.

A further three institutions exhausted only their Discretionary Fund allocation:

Edinburgh''s Telford College

John Wheatley College

Newbattle Abbey College.

A further eight institutions exhausted only their Childcare Fund:

Borders College

Glasgow Metropolitan College

Oatridge Agricultural College

Stow College

Glasgow School of Art

Heriot Watt University

RSAMD

Strathclyde University.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-21494 on 10 March 2009. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx. wit

The purpose of child care discretionary funds is not to meet every demand for the cost of child care from every student. They are intended to provide institutions with a source of additional funding which colleges and universities can then use to assist students with the costs of child care who are in financial difficulty and who are at risk of not completing their courses.