- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any decision has been made with regard to re-establishing a sheriff court in Peebles.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether transferring sheriff court business arising in Penicuik from Edinburgh Sheriff Court to a sheriff court in Peebles has been considered.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on provision of legal services for Peebles and district if the sheriff court in Peebles is not re-established.
Answer
There is no information currently available on the future provision of legal services in Peebles. It is hoped that the on-going discussions between Scottish Court Service, Scottish Borders Council and Lothian and Borders Police will culminate in court services being re-established in Peebles.If court services cannot be re-established in Peebles, provision of legal services could be considered as part of the consultation process on the delivery of court services.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are used to assess social exclusion in a rural context.
Answer
Social Exclusion can take many forms and is often complex and multi-dimensional. The Social Justice Milestones are used throughout Scotland to measure a range of issues that can lead to social exclusion. The Scottish Executive is ensuring that the needs of rural areas are identified through urban/rural disaggregation of social statistics. For example, the Social Justice Annual Report's technical report disaggregated 12 of the social justice milestones on an urban and rural basis. A compendium of rural statistics - Social Focus on Urban Rural Scotland - was published on 22 May 2003.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are applied in making social inclusion funding available to further education (FE) colleges and whether different criteria apply to urban and rural colleges.
Answer
Formulaic funding for social inclusion is provided by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council (SFEFC) via the three strands shown as follows:Entry Costs Social Inclusion Premium: This element reflects SFEFC's on-going commitment to support the development of further education as a means of giving new opportunities to people from socially deprived areas. The premium supports the extra costs colleges bear when engaging with socially excluded groups and provides an incentive for colleges to increase their provision for these groups. Colleges will receive a premium worth £57.95 in 2003-04 for students domiciled within the 20% most deprived areas in Scotland.Retention and Achievement Social Inclusion Premium: This element acknowledges the difficulty in meeting the on-going support needs of students from under-represented groups as they progress through their courses. Colleges will receive a premium for 2003-04 worth £9.94 per unit of funding generated by students domiciled within the 20% most deprived areas in Scotland.Remoteness Element: SFEFC has a duty, on behalf of the Scottish ministers, to ensure that there is adequate and efficient provision of FE in Scotland. It is recognised that there are additional costs, for what are often small colleges, associated with operating in remote and island areas of Scotland. The remoteness element aims to reflect the additional costs which these colleges necessarily bear. Each qualifying remote college receives an institutional element (£191,359 for 2003-04), and the sum of £30.70 per head based on the number of students whose home address is in a sparsely populated area.It is also recognised that colleges operating on islands or in extremely remote locations can face even higher financial burdens due to their location. Therefore, both the above institutional and student based elements are uplifted by a further 30% for island locations and 15% for extremely remote mainland locations.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when the public consultation on the provision of sheriff court services in Peebles will take place.
Answer
The public consultation in relation to delivery of court services in the Peebles area will commence when discussions between the Scottish Court Service, Scottish Borders Council and Lothian and Borders Police on the relocation of the court to council buildings at Rosetta Road, Peebles have concluded.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been received by each further education college for social inclusion in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03.
Answer
Figures across the time period requested are not available on a consistent basis. This is because the method of funding further education (FE) colleges changed when responsibility for the methodology responsibility transferred to the Scottish Further Education Funding Council (SFEFC) from 2000-01.Because of the fundamental role that FE colleges have in encouraging people of all ages and from different backgrounds to participate in post-school learning, a large proportion of the resources available to FE colleges are associated in some way with the promotion of social inclusion. However, the amounts cannot be determined separately.The figures provided in the following table relate to the specific elements that cover the additional costs of social inclusion over and above the standard funding per student place.
| College | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Aberdeen College | £115,257 | £279,914 | £313,326 |
| Angus College* | £72,942 | £97,586 | £105,396 |
| Anniesland College | £256,365 | £504,858 | £530,400 |
| Ayr College | £82,338 | £194,423 | £228,091 |
| Banff and Buchan College of Further Education* | £87,403 | £109,942 | £115,083 |
| The Barony College* | £27,636 | £24,557 | £24,486 |
| Borders College* | £101,806 | £92,915 | £95,721 |
| Cardonald College | £256,339 | £507,839 | £549,134 |
| Central College of Commerce | £134,295 | £312,708 | £383,692 |
| Clackmannan College of Further Education | £39,253 | £71,797 | £71,157 |
| Clydebank College | £210,907 | £352,497 | £362,290 |
| Coatbridge College | £120,543 | £249,642 | £277,925 |
| Cumbernauld College | £25,657 | £60,515 | £85,598 |
| Dumfries and Galloway College* | £116,836 | £186,400 | £177,781 |
| Dundee College | £270,339 | £522,863 | £607,668 |
| Edinburgh's Telford College | £198,813 | £395,741 | £436,261 |
| Elmwood College* | £57,231 | £83,227 | £100,560 |
| Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education | £92,192 | £181,450 | £207,886 |
| Fife College of Further and Higher Education | £112,473 | £244,891 | £266,292 |
| Glasgow College of Building and Printing | £139,200 | £313,173 | £356,887 |
| Glasgow College of Food Technology | £91,455 | £273,557 | £258,752 |
| Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | £119,644 | £208,757 | £250,934 |
| Glenrothes College | £32,944 | £80,217 | £94,603 |
| Inverness College*@ | £101,968 | £109,356 | £155,683 |
| James Watt College of Further and Higher Education | £281,725 | £771,276 | £781,620 |
| Jewel and Esk Valley College | £79,881 | £151,101 | £164,458 |
| John Wheatley College | £272,332 | £342,172 | £406,437 |
| Kilmarnock College | £87,962 | £227,707 | £255,300 |
| Langside College | £179,501 | £387,034 | £433,678 |
| Lauder College | £50,681 | £104,890 | £144,578 |
| Lews Castle College ***@ | £22,902 | £36,692 | £50,081 |
| Moray College*@ | £113,740 | £90,427 | £85,099 |
| Motherwell College | £211,157 | £445,416 | £528,230 |
| North Glasgow College | £114,838 | £311,894 | £385,984 |
| Oatridge Agricultural College* | £36,080 | £31,980 | £37,288 |
| Perth College*@ | £121,624 | £117,203 | £130,414 |
| Reid Kerr College | £204,736 | £473,557 | £506,320 |
| South Lanarkshire College | £52,604 | £108,815 | £112,477 |
| Stevenson College | £174,005 | £350,942 | £309,010 |
| Stow College | £153,122 | £248,674 | £301,584 |
| The North Highland College**@ | £92,156 | £98,087 | £131,785 |
| West Lothian College | £33,116 | £73,292 | £95,256 |
| Orkney College***@ | £46,461 | £48,282 | £61,181 |
| Shetland College of Further Education***@ | £16,434 | £13,311 | £9,743 |
Source: Scottish Further Education Funding CouncilNotes:1. These figures consist of the entry costs social inclusion premium; retention and achievement social inclusion premium, and remote student element part of the core formula funding provided to colleges by SFEFC. (NOTE - in 2000-01 the retention and achievement premium did not exist.)2. In addition to the figures shown above, colleges in receipt of the remote student element also received a remote institutional based element at a base rate of £176,000 for 2000-01, £178,640 for 2001-02 and £183,999 for 2002-03 (rising to £191,359 in 2003-04). Mainland colleges that are classed as extremely remote received a 15% increase on this base rate and island colleges received a 30% increase. Remote colleges are marked *, extremely remote **, and island colleges ***3. Colleges marked @ are part of the UHI Millennium Institute (UMI). From 2001-02 their advanced level activity was no longer funded via SFEFC and was instead funded via SHEFC as part of UMI. Therefore the figures for these colleges are not stated on a comparable basis for 2000-01 and 2001-02.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what national guidelines there are for local authorities on priority admissions to primary schools.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-176 today. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make legal aid available in respect of local authority education appeal committee proceedings.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no plans to make legal aid available in respect of local authority education appeal committee proceedings. Legal aid is available for appeals from the committees to the sheriff court.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what policy guidelines it issues to local authorities regarding criteria for primary school placing requests by parents.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not issue such policy guidelines. Education authorities are under a statutory duty (set out in section 1 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980) to ensure that they make adequate and efficient provision of school education for their area. Setting criteria for the allocation of places in schools under their management and for determining priority admissions are matters to be determined by education authorities in meeting their duties under this section. Authorities can only turn down a placing request on one of the grounds set out in law.
