Question reference: S5W-35299
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 18 February 2021
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Current status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 4 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much capital investment there has been in each further education college in each year since 2007.
Answer
Since 2007 [i] the Scottish Government has invested £823 million in the college estates [ii]. This investment, broken down by college, is noted in the following table.
Since 2012-13 a further £330 million has been invested through Non-Profit Distribution (NPD). The Scottish Government also funds the unitary charge on the NPD college projects [iii].
College | Total capital funding 2007-20 (formulaic & projects) |
Aberdeen College | 22,496,223 |
Adam Smith College | 9,447,958 |
Angus College | 3,168,723 |
Anniesland College | 45,960,931 |
Ayr College | 8,650,699 |
Ayrshire College | 17,653,621 |
Banff & Buchan College of Further Education | 24,386,567 |
Barony College | 1,064,694 |
Borders College | 20,329,527 |
Cardonald College | 5,920,999 |
Carnegie College | 5,615,212 |
Central College of Commerce | 2,981,252 |
City of Glasgow College | 30,580,434 |
Clydebank College | 9,531,475 |
Coatbridge College | 20,607,430 |
Cumbernauld College | 3,562,195 |
Dumfries & Galloway College | 26,476,758 |
Dundee and Angus College | 10,260,445 |
Dundee College | 37,854,197 |
Edinburgh's Telford College | 8,752,227 |
Edinburgh College | 30,636,919 |
Elmwood College | 2,190,438 |
Fife College | 24,756,624 |
Forth Valley College | 108,360,221 |
Glasgow Clyde College | 12,746,254 |
Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | 21,122,641 |
Glasgow Kelvin College | 9,677,006 |
Glasgow Metropolitan College | 5,250,493 |
Inverness College UHI | 13,667,825 |
James Watt College of Further & Higher Education | 11,330,398 |
Jewel & Esk College | 27,396,967 |
John Wheatley College | 2,863,270 |
Kilmarnock College | 6,337,007 |
Langside College | 35,991,485 |
Lews Castle College UHI | 2,667,323 |
Moray College UHI | 5,023,041 |
Motherwell College | 46,428,145 |
New College Lanarkshire | 19,089,051 |
Newbattle Abbey College | 1,549,815 |
North East Scotland College | 13,247,430 |
North Glasgow College | 24,905,814 |
North Highland College UHI | 7,107,972 |
Oatridge College | 1,260,752 |
Orkney College UHI | 1,556,568 |
Perth College UHI | 4,954,370 |
Reid Kerr College | 6,336,460 |
Sabhal Mor Ostaig UHI | 2,436,257 |
Shetland College UHI | 2,220,208 |
South Lanarkshire College | 11,070,969 |
SRUC | 3,196,789 |
Stevenson College | 6,426,663 |
Stow College | 4,464,718 |
West College Scotland | 16,912,492 |
West Lothian College | 12,317,187 |
West Highland College UHI | 2,387,180 |
Total | 823,188,319 |
[i] 2007 to 2018 spans the period where the sector underwent major regional mergers: some investments were in campuses which are now part of larger regional colleges.
[ii] That is, since 2007, colleges have received £823 million grant payments for capital from the Scottish Funding Council.
[iii] Since 2012-13 Scottish Government has funded the following unitary charges:
Ayrshire College - £16,665,856:
City of Glasgow - £76,925,000;
Inverness College UHI - £21,901,957