Questions and answers

Question reference: S4W-20902

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether its Rural Payments and Inspections Directorate has carried out forecasting in the last five years on potential changes to local area grant and subsidy distribution from each local area office in the Highlands and Islands.

The Rural Payments and Inspections Directorate is not responsible for economic analysis. A specialised division of the Scottish Government, Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) handles this work.

RESAS, in conjunction with The James Hutton Institute, undertook a scenario analysis in April 2013 that identified examples of the outcomes of using region and budget combinations to define payment rates for the Basic Payment Scheme in Scotland from 2015. The resultant paper sets out summary results from all of the scenarios that were modelled for the regionalisation of the Basic Payment Scheme in Scotland. There are 30 in total, and each is comprised of: a different way of defining regions; a given number of regions; and a different way of allocating regional budgets. Subsequent analysis has examined preferred scenarios alongside other aspects of the reform including the reduced budget, coupled payments and redistributive payments.

The impact of the various scenarios are shown separately for ‘Highland’, ‘Elieanan an Iar’, ‘Orkney’ and ‘Shetland’. The analysis can be accessed using the following links:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/farmingrural/Agriculture/CAP/regulations/Meetings-2013/Future-CAP-Scenarios-Analysis-Summaries;

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/farmingrural/Agriculture/CAP/regulations

Question reference: S4W-20900

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of common agricultural policy funding distributed by each Rural Payments and Inspections Directorate area office in the Highlands and Islands in each of the last five years.

The quinquennial breakdown of common agricultural policy funding by each Rural Payment and Inspections Directorate area office is in the following tables that should be read in conjunction with the following explanatory comments.

‘Highlands and Islands’ has been taken to mean all the parishes within the geographical boundary of the Highlands and Island constituency of The Scottish Parliament.

“…the last five years…” has been taken to mean the most recent five years for which data is available, which for expenditure funded by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund ends in 2013 and for the European Fund for Agricultural Rural Development ends in 2014.

The level of common agricultural funding varies according to the source of funding. Direct payments are fully funded (100%) from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, whereas rural development funding from European Fund for Agricultural Rural Development involves a co-financing arrangement between the European Commission and The Scottish Government.

	Expenditure	2009	2010	2011
Ayr	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£2,063,169.21	£1,802,368.31	£1,855,164.60
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£222,607.24	£388,042.11	£430,569.73
	Domestic	£502,255.74	£388,044.12	£430,570.74
	TOTALS	£2,788,032.19	£2,578,454.54	£2,716,305.07
Benbecula	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,639,896.29	£1,515,214.08	£1,527,477.94
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£455,221.31	£1,022,232.68	£1,059,266.36
	Domestic	£1,158,722.95	£1,022,237.49	£1,059,270.26
	TOTALS	£3,253,840.55	£3,559,684.25	£3,646,014.56
Elgin	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£18,063,327.39	£17,204,533.09	£17,311,371.24
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,103,243.45	£2,645,876.56	£3,538,701.20
	Domestic	£2,490,612.38	£2,645,879.56	£3,525,669.20
	TOTALS	£21,657,183.22	£22,496,289.21	£24,375,741.64
Golspie	Guarantee/AGF Expenditure	£3,967,209.79	£3,702,052.99	£3,779,045.82
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£767,597.75	£1,932,651.34	£2,687,240.30
	Domestic	£1,536,572.25	£1,932,655.44	£2,687,262.75
	TOTALS	£6,271,379.79	£7,567,359.77	£9,153,548.87
Inverness	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£25,060,626.24	£23,276,655.42	£23,495,703.51
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,291,896.85	£6,152,501.25	£8,609,461.02
	Domestic	£5,356,337.58	£6,152,505.15	£8,599,502.39
	TOTALS	£32,708,860.67	£35,581,661.82	£40,704,666.92

	Expenditure	2012	2013	2014
Ayr	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,721,387.22	£1,732,368.63	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£478,761.82	£502,073.84	£391,420.00
	Domestic	£199,659.20	£613,347.78	£269,471.71
	TOTALS	£2,399,808.24	£2,847,790.25	£660,891.71
Benbecula	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,420,383.51	£1,469,167.64	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,388,205.34	£1,156,853.41	£1,310,413.17
	Domestic	£590,014.03	£1,170,505.27	£758,250.87
	TOTALS	£3,398,602.88	£3,796,526.32	£2,068,664.04
Elgin	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£15,690,614.10	£15,913,391.21	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£4,145,248.69	£2,794,445.02	£2,566,943.22
	Domestic	£1,807,926.71	£3,137,246.76	£1,592,933.23
	TOTALS	£21,643,789.50	£21,845,082.99	£4,159,876.45
Golspie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,524,511.25	£3,644,130.10	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£3,684,964.20	£2,904,844.68	£1,640,380.22
	Domestic	£1,567,106.33	£2,700,581.79	£982,269.39
	TOTALS	£8,776,581.78	£9,249,556.57	£2,622,649.61
Inverness	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£21,815,178.06	£22,366,296.63	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£12,469,740.86	£7,252,320.14	£6,611,627.31
	Domestic	£5,308,494.41	£7,594,175.49	£3,973,554.82
	TOTALS	£39,593,413.33	£37,212,792.26	£10,585,182.13

	Expenditure	Total of all
Ayr	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£9,174,457.97
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,413,474.74
	Domestic	£2,403,349.29
	TOTALS	£13,991,282.00
Benbecula	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£7,572,139.46
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£6,392,192.27
	Domestic	£5,759,000.87
	TOTALS	£19,723,332.60
Elgin	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£84,183,237.03
	Guidance / rural Development Expenditure	£16,794,458.14
	Domestic	£15,200,267.84
	TOTALS	£116,177,963.01
Golspie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£18,616,949.95
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£13,617,678.49
	Domestic	£11,406,447.95
	TOTALS	£43,641,076.39
Inverness	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£116,014,459.86
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£43,387,547.43
	Domestic	£36,984,569.84
	TOTALS	£196,386,577.13

	Expenditure	2009	2010	2011
Inverurie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,642,709.77	£3,437,297.56	£3,511,201.89
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£151,314.54	£343,152.14	£340,281.49
	Domestic	£329,936.65	£343,154.14	£340,284.49
	TOTALS	£4,123,960.96	£4,123,603.84	£4,191,767.87
Kirkwall	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£16,142,634.06	£15,254,063.91	£15,365,297.74
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,593,248.56	£3,951,547.13	£4,718,583.52
	Domestic	£3,665,779.43	£3,951,550.94	£4,718,575.98
	TOTALS	£21,401,662.05	£23,157,161.98	£24,802,457.24
Lerwick	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£5,143,260.63	£4,796,618.47	£4,802,425.04
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,924,205.77	£2,501,196.66	£2,372,684.94
	Domestic	£3,757,287.33	£2,501,198.30	£2,372,689.40
	TOTALS	£10,824,753.73	£9,799,013.43	£9,547,799.38
Oban	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£17,045,086.86	£16,344,609.92	£16,457,080.94
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,686,610.55	£6,732,564.52	£7,012,941.31
	Domestic	£6,263,784.49	£6,732,572.94	£7,012,954.03
	TOTALS	£25,995,481.90	£29,809,747.38	£30,482,976.28
Perth	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,898,562.66	£1,834,902.06	£1,798,742.02
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£168,140.59	£546,716.42	£361,611.17
	Domestic	£425,083.77	£546,717.42	£361,613.18
	TOTALS	£2,491,787.02	£2,928,335.90	£2,521,966.37

	Expenditure	2012	2013	2014
Inverurie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,227,165.25	£3,297,125.77	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£564,695.78	£244,374.41	£181,083.31
	Domestic	£241,306.72	£297,458.77	£123,559.74
	TOTALS	£4,033,167.75	£3,838,958.95	£304,643.05
Kirkwall	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£14,059,006.21	£14,391,594.74	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£5,948,767.85	£3,534,932.73	£3,488,118.96
	Domestic	£2,501,449.57	£4,255,306.91	£2,275,402.27
	TOTALS	£22,509,223.63	£22,181,834.38	£5,763,521.23
Lerwick	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£4,488,220.47	£4,547,783.88	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£3,199,602.60	£1,714,388.45	£2,153,268.09
	Domestic	£1,336,537.49	£2,258,039.84	£1,423,687.77
	TOTALS	£9,024,360.56	£8,520,212.17	£3,576,955.86
Oban	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£15,084,843.56	£14,997,919.69	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£10,329,717.08	£6,387,500.93	£6,940,356.32
	Domestic	£4,335,273.64	£7,908,953.72	£4,394,900.69
	TOTALS	£29,749,834.28	£29,294,374.34	£11,335,257.01
Perth	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,906,370.40	£1,939,099.37	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£798,213.47	£442,945.18	£326,293.20
	Domestic	£334,040.71	£519,646.71	£226,631.51
	TOTALS	£3,038,624.58	£2,901,691.26	£552,924.71

	Expenditure	Total of all
Inverurie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£17,115,500.24
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,824,901.67
	Domestic	£1,675,700.51
	TOTALS	£20,616,102.42
Kirkwall	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£75,212,596.66
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£23,235,198.75
	Domestic	£21,368,065.10
	TOTALS	£119,815,860.51
Lerwick	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£23,778,308.49
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£13,865,346.51
	Domestic	£13,649,440.13
	TOTALS	£51,293,095.13
Oban	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£79,929,540.97
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£40,089,690.71
	Domestic	£36,648,439.51
	TOTALS	£156,667,671.19
Perth	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£9,377,676.51
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,643,920.03
	Domestic	£2,413,733.30
	TOTALS	£14,435,329.84

	Expenditure	2009	2010	2011
Portee	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£2,959,504.45	£2,760,318.72	£2,758,885.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£593,390.35	£1,343,939.85	£1,359,068.70
	Domestic	£1,567,595.08	£1,343,944.88	£1,359,073.16
	TOTALS	£5,120,489.88	£5,448,203.45	£5,477,026.86
Stornoway	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,759,593.80	£1,606,384.77	£1,627,779.39
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£364,846.80	£986,278.28	£1,208,231.45
	Domestic	£963,501.42	£986,282.29	£690,676.89
	TOTALS	£3,087,942.02	£3,578,945.34	£3,526,687.73
Thurso	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£12,445,765.27	£11,670,954.42	£11,669,593.69
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,558,259.17	£3,620,598.60	£3,916,993.12
	Domestic	£3,362,717.52	£3,620,594.40	£3,916,999.68
	TOTALS	£17,366,741.96	£18,912,147.42	£19,503,586.49
	Overall Total of All Offices	£157,092,115.94	£165,417,004.49	£180,650,545.28

	Expenditure	2012	2013	2014
Portee	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£2,587,898.24	£2,638,030.56	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,967,741.90	£1,483,609.39	£1,280,791.84
	Domestic	£842,701.05	£1,775,393.84	£888,673.96
	TOTALS	£5,398,341.19	£5,897,033.79	£2,169,465.80
Stornoway	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,536,530.88	£1,535,812.56	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,359,293.34	£1,118,084.46	£1,056,147.13
	Domestic	£576,701.16	£1,181,879.17	£651,599.86
	TOTALS	£3,472,525.38	£3,835,776.19	£1,707,746.99
Thurso	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£10,779,984.49	£10,795,202.71	£0.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£5,163,148.68	£3,475,487.03	£3,323,728.26
	Domestic	£2,152,277.48	£4,257,043.10	£2,141,529.04
	TOTALS	£18,095,410.65	£18,527,732.84	£5,465,257.30
	Overall Total of All Offices	£171,133,683.75	£169,949,362.31	£50,973,035.89

	Expenditure	Total for all
Portee	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£13,704,636.97
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£8,028,542.03
	Domestic	£7,777,381.97
	TOTALS	£29,510,560.97
Stornoway	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£8,066,101.40
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£6,092,881.46
	Domestic	£5,050,640.79
	TOTALS	£19,209,623.65
Thurso	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£57,361,500.58
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£21,058,214.86
	Domestic	£19,451,161.22
	TOTALS	£97,870,876.66
	Overall Total of All Offices	£895,215,747.66

Question reference: S4W-20901

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how much has been paid in grants and subsidies by each Rural Payments and Inspections Directorate area office in the Highlands and Islands in each of the last 10 years.

The decennial breakdown of grants and subsidies by each Rural Payment and Inspection Directorate Area office is in the following tables that should be read in conjunction with the following explanatory comments.

‘Highlands and Islands’ has been taken to mean all the parishes within the geographical boundary of the Highlands and Island constituency of The Scottish Parliament.

“…the last ten years…” has been taken to mean the most recent ten years for which data is available, which for expenditure funded by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) ends in 2013 and for the European Fund for Agricultural Rural Development ends in 2014.

The level of common agricultural funding varies according to the source of funding. Direct payments are fully funded (100%) from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, whereas rural development funding from European Fund for Agricultural Rural Development involves a co-financing arrangement between the European Commission and the Scottish Government.

	Expenditure	2004	2005	2006
Ayr	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,370,231.00	£1,481,530.56	£1,859,773.98
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
	Domestic	£368,322.48	£368,818.63	£386,994.30
	TOTALS	£1,738,553.48	£1,850,349.19	£2,246,768.28
Benbecula	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,862,677.68	£1,757,336.77	£1,942,579.97
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
	Domestic	£780,164.82	£815,113.60	£864,213.11
	TOTALS	£2,642,842.50	£2,572,450.37	£2,806,793.08
Elgin	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£14,981,505.62	£14,667,546.72	£16,495,743.03
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
	Domestic	£2,054,527.69	£2,116,751.16	£2,094,400.46
	TOTALS	£17,036,033.31	£16,784,297.88	£18,590,143.49
Golspie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£2,993,685.82	£3,012,125.61	£3,417,501.65
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
	Domestic	£962,177.34	£964,031.73	£941,617.43
	TOTALS	£3,955,863.16	£3,976,157.34	£4,359,119.08
Inverness	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£22,246,370.62	£22,447,628.83	£22,691,919.25
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
	Domestic	£4,496,049.58	£4,644,027.16	£4,539,380.39
	TOTALS	£26,742,420.20	£27,091,655.99	£27,231,299.64

	Expenditure	2007	2008	2009
Ayr	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,645,971.24	£2,146,400.73	£2,063,169.21
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£212,911.00	£186,916.08	£222,607.24
	Domestic	£358,792.26	£524,118.75	£502,255.74
	TOTALS	£2,217,674.50	£2,857,435.56	£2,788,032.19
Benbecula	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,275,542.82	£1,362,057.41	£1,639,896.29
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£756,478.00	£359,490.23	£455,221.31
	Domestic	£673,273.36	£1,024,315.75	£1,158,722.95
	TOTALS	£2,705,294.18	£2,745,863.39	£3,253,840.55
Elgin	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£16,046,554.58	£17,035,396.30	£18,063,327.39
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,507,602.00	£902,183.93	£1,103,243.45
	Domestic	£2,187,085.57	£2,558,709.60	£2,490,612.38
	TOTALS	£19,741,242.15	£20,496,289.83	£21,657,183.22
Golspie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,164,370.91	£3,919,893.17	£3,967,209.79
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£609,635.00	£470,291.57	£767,597.75
	Domestic	£880,821.18	£1,331,970.52	£1,536,572.25
	TOTALS	£4,654,827.09	£5,722,155.26	£6,271,379.79
Inverness	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£20,577,658.86	£23,917,311.58	£25,060,626.24
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,861,167.00	£1,912,781.34	£2,291,896.85
	Domestic	£3,824,473.32	£5,400,339.63	£5,356,337.58
	TOTALS	£27,263,299.18	£31,230,432.55	£32,708,860.67

	Expenditure	2010	2011	2012
Ayr	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,802,368.31	£1,855,164.60	£1,721,387.22
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£388,042.11	£430,569.73	£478,761.82
	Domestic	£388,044.12	£430,570.74	£199,659.20
	TOTALS	£2,578,454.54	£2,716,305.07	£2,399,808.24
Benbecula	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,515,214.08	£1,527,477.94	£1,420,383.51
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,022,232.68	£1,059,266.36	£1,388,205.34
	Domestic	£1,022,237.49	£1,059,270.26	£590,014.03
	TOTALS	£3,559,684.25	£3,646,014.56	£3,398,602.88
Elgin	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£17,204,533.09	£17,311,371.24	£15,690,614.10
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,645,876.56	£3,538,701.20	£4,145,248.69
	Domestic	£2,645,879.56	£3,525,669.20	£1,807,926.71
	TOTALS	£22,496,289.21	£24,375,741.64	£21,643,789.50
Golspie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,702,052.99	£3,779,045.82	£3,524,511.25
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,932,651.34	£2,687,240.30	£3,684,964.20
	Domestic	£1,932,655.44	£2,687,262.75	£1,567,106.33
	TOTALS	£7,567,359.77	£9,153,548.87	£8,776,581.78
Inverness	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£23,276,655.42	£23,495,703.51	£21,815,178.06
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£6,152,501.25	£8,609,461.02	£12,469,740.86
	Domestic	£6,152,505.15	£8,599,502.39	£5,308,494.41
	TOTALS	£35,581,661.82	£40,704,666.92	£39,593,413.33

	Expenditure	2013	2014	Total of all
Ayr	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,732,368.63	£0.00	£17,678,365.48
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£502,073.84	£391,420.00	£2,813,301.82
	Domestic	£613,347.78	£269,471.71	£4,410,395.71
	TOTALS	£2,847,790.25	£660,891.71	£24,902,063.01
Benbecula	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,469,167.64	£0.00	£15,772,334.11
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,156,853.41	£1,310,413.17	£7,508,160.50
	Domestic	£1,170,505.27	£758,250.87	£9,916,081.51
	TOTALS	£3,796,526.32	£2,068,664.04	£33,196,576.12
Elgin	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£15,913,391.21	£0.00	£163,409,983.28
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,794,445.02	£2,566,943.22	£19,204,244.07
	Domestic	£3,137,246.76	£1,592,933.23	£26,211,742.32
	TOTALS	£21,845,082.99	£4,159,876.45	£208,825,969.67
Golspie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,644,130.10	£0.00	£35,124,527.11
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,904,844.68	£1,640,380.22	£14,697,605.06
	Domestic	£2,700,581.79	£982,269.39	£16,487,066.15
	TOTALS	£9,249,556.57	£2,622,649.61	£66,309,198.32
Inverness	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£22,366,296.63	£0.00	£227,895,349.00
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£7,252,320.14	£6,611,627.31	£48,161,495.77
	Domestic	£7,594,175.49	£3,973,554.82	£59,888,839.92
	TOTALS	£37,212,792.26	£10,585,182.13	£335,945,684.69

Expenditure

2004

2005

2006

Inverurie

Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,310,466.82	£3,150,140.33	£3,164,632.48
Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
Domestic	£323,906.49	£306,279.23	£246,768.48
TOTALS	£3,634,373.31	£3,456,419.56	£3,411,400.96

Kirkwall

Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£8,478,445.33	£13,751,845.85	£14,769,178.68
Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
Domestic	£2,926,653.44	£2,898,330.59	£2,922,435.18
TOTALS	£11,405,098.77	£16,650,176.44	£17,691,613.86

Lerwick

Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£5,757,909.56	£5,569,031.99	£5,907,943.54
Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
Domestic	£2,704,956.37	£2,659,366.90	£2,514,833.86
TOTALS	£8,462,865.93	£8,228,398.89	£8,422,777.40

Oban

Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£15,324,973.88	£15,504,597.57	£17,104,476.42
Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
Domestic	£5,497,585.36	£5,543,279.25	£5,183,749.89
TOTALS	£20,822,559.24	£21,047,876.82	£22,288,226.31

Perth

Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£7,904,949.21	£1,659,402.21	£1,859,022.74
Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
Domestic	£438,868.69	£395,892.91	£378,254.02
TOTALS	£8,343,817.90	£2,055,295.12	£2,237,276.76

	Expenditure	2007	2008	2009
Inverurie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,016,723.26	£3,502,217.73	£3,642,709.77
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£264,437.00	£125,504.33	£151,314.54
	Domestic	£223,124.56	£360,221.83	£329,936.65
	TOTALS	£3,504,284.82	£3,987,943.89	£4,123,960.96
Kirkwall	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£13,101,871.74	£14,321,045.03	£16,142,634.06
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,725,348.00	£1,376,311.75	£1,593,248.56
	Domestic	£2,568,914.75	£3,873,347.86	£3,665,779.43
	TOTALS	£17,396,134.49	£19,570,704.64	£21,401,662.05
Lerwick	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,974,061.19	£4,358,186.79	£5,143,260.63
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,045,776.00	£875,987.74	£1,924,205.77
	Domestic	£1,887,282.01	£2,460,537.51	£3,757,287.33
	TOTALS	£7,907,119.20	£7,694,712.04	£10,824,753.73
Oban	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£13,522,542.45	£14,574,105.17	£17,045,086.86
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,834,772.00	£1,968,565.60	£2,686,610.55
	Domestic	£4,614,082.17	£6,596,573.70	£6,263,784.49
	TOTALS	£20,971,396.62	£23,139,244.47	£25,995,481.90
Perth	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,598,937.70	£1,895,317.27	£1,898,562.66
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£201,709.00	£153,541.00	£168,140.59
	Domestic	£337,409.16	£430,430.14	£425,083.77
	TOTALS	£2,138,055.86	£2,479,288.41	£2,491,787.02

	Expenditure	2010	2011	2012
Inverurie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,437,297.56	£3,511,201.89	£3,227,165.25
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£343,152.14	£340,281.49	£564,695.78
	Domestic	£343,154.14	£340,284.49	£241,306.72
	TOTALS	£4,123,603.84	£4,191,767.87	£4,033,167.75
Kirkwall	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£15,254,063.91	£15,365,297.74	£14,059,006.21
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£3,951,547.13	£4,718,583.52	£5,948,767.85
	Domestic	£3,951,550.94	£4,718,575.98	£2,501,449.57
	TOTALS	£23,157,161.98	£24,802,457.24	£22,509,223.63
Lerwick	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£4,796,618.47	£4,802,425.04	£4,488,220.47
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£2,501,196.66	£2,372,684.94	£3,199,602.60
	Domestic	£2,501,198.30	£2,372,689.40	£1,336,537.49
	TOTALS	£9,799,013.43	£9,547,799.38	£9,024,360.56
Oban	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£16,344,609.92	£16,457,080.94	£15,084,843.56
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£6,732,564.52	£7,012,941.31	£10,329,717.08
	Domestic	£6,732,572.94	£7,012,954.03	£4,335,273.64
	TOTALS	£29,809,747.38	£30,482,976.28	£29,749,834.28
Perth	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,834,902.06	£1,798,742.02	£1,906,370.40
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£546,716.42	£361,611.17	£798,213.47
	Domestic	£546,717.42	£361,613.18	£334,040.71
	TOTALS	£2,928,335.90	£2,521,966.37	£3,038,624.58

	Expenditure	2013	2014	Total of all
Inverurie	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£3,297,125.77	£0.00	£33,259,680.86
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£244,374.41	£181,083.31	£2,214,843.00
	Domestic	£297,458.77	£123,559.74	£3,136,001.10
	TOTALS	£3,838,958.95	£304,643.05	£38,610,524.96
Kirkwall	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£14,391,594.74	£0.00	£139,634,983.29
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£3,534,932.73	£3,488,118.96	£26,336,858.50
	Domestic	£4,255,306.91	£2,275,402.27	£36,557,746.92
	TOTALS	£22,181,834.38	£5,763,521.23	£202,529,588.71
Lerwick	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£4,547,783.88	£0.00	£49,345,441.56
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,714,388.45	£2,153,268.09	£16,787,110.25
	Domestic	£2,258,039.84	£1,423,687.77	£25,876,416.78
	TOTALS	£8,520,212.17	£3,576,955.86	£92,008,968.59
Oban	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£14,997,919.69	£0.00	£155,960,236.46
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£6,387,500.93	£6,940,356.32	£44,893,028.31
	Domestic	£7,908,953.72	£4,394,900.69	£64,083,709.88
	TOTALS	£29,294,374.34	£11,335,257.01	£264,936,974.65
Perth	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,939,099.37	£0.00	£24,295,305.64
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£442,945.18	£326,293.20	£2,999,170.03
	Domestic	£519,646.71	£226,631.51	£4,394,588.22
	TOTALS	£2,901,691.26	£552,924.71	£31,689,063.89

Expenditure

2004

2005

2006

Portree

Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£2,761,374.54	£2,812,869.76	£3,002,983.52
Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
Domestic	£1,151,250.70	£1,141,292.35	£1,087,300.64
TOTALS	£3,912,625.24	£3,951,102.11	£4,090,284.16

Stornoway

Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,769,702.38	£1,735,961.37	£1,920,100.41
Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
Domestic	£819,988.84	£784,383.89	£781,944.76
TOTALS	£2,589,691.22	£2,520,345.26	£2,702,045.17

Thurso

Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£11,608,494.75	£11,133,202.87	£11,933,582.77
Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
Domestic	£2,691,278.81	£2,756,165.56	£2,776,141.70
TOTALS	£14,299,773.56	£13,889,368.43	£14,709,724.47

Overall Total of All Offices

£125,586,517.82

£124,073,893.40

£130,787,472.66

	Expenditure	2007	2008	2009
Portee	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£2,298,844.73	£2,519,841.76	£2,959,504.45
	Guidance / rural Development Expenditure	£656,543.00	£534,699.00	£593,390.35
	Domestic	£1,055,996.20	£1,497,636.25	£1,567,595.08
	TOTALS	£4,011,383.93	£4,552,177.01	£5,120,489.88
Stornoway	Guarantee / EAGF Expenditure	£1,372,749.09	£1,467,642.42	£1,759,593.80
	Guidance / rural Development Expenditure	£439,566.00	£349,184.27	£364,846.80
	Domestic	£732,145.58	£976,331.94	£963,501.42
	TOTALS	£2,544,460.67	£2,793,158.63	£3,087,942.02
Thurso	Guarantee / EAGF Expenditure	£10,265,287.23	£12,043,459.69	£12,445,765.27
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,520,282.00	£1,182,115.36	£1,558,259.17
	Domestic	£2,391,290.37	£3,324,853.80	£3,362,717.52
	TOTALS	£14,176,859.60	£16,550,428.85	£17,366,741.96
	Overall Total of All Offices	£129,232,032.29	£143,819,834.53	£157,092,115.94

	Expenditure	2010	2011	2012
Portee	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£2,760,318.72	£2,758,885.00	£2,587,898.24
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,343,939.85	£1,359,068.70	£1,967,741.90
	Domestic	£1,343,944.88	£1,359,073.16	£842,701.05
	TOTALS	£5,448,203.45	£5,477,026.86	£5,398,341.19
Stornoway	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,606,384.77	£1,627,779.39	£1,536,530.88
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£986,278.28	£1,208,231.45	£1,359,293.34
	Domestic	£986,282.29	£690,676.89	£576,701.16
	TOTALS	£3,578,945.34	£3,526,687.73	£3,472,525.38
Thurso	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£11,670,954.42	£11,669,593.69	£10,779,984.49
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£3,620,598.60	£3,916,993.12	£5,163,148.68
	Domestic	£3,620,594.40	£3,916,999.68	£2,152,277.48
	TOTALS	£18,912,147.42	£19,503,586.49	£18,095,410.65
	Overall Total of All Offices	£165,417,004.49	£180,650,545.28	£171,133,683.75

	Expenditure	2013	2014	Total for all
Portee	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£2,638,030.56	£0.00	£27,100,551.28
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,483,609.39	£1,280,791.84	£9,219,784.03
	Domestic	£1,775,393.84	£888,673.96	£13,710,858.11
	TOTALS	£5,897,033.79	£2,169,465.80	£50,031,193.42
Stornoway	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£1,535,812.56	£0.00	£16,332,257.07
	Guidance/rural Development Expenditure	£1,118,084.46	£1,056,147.13	£6,881,631.73
	Domestic	£1,181,879.17	£651,599.86	£9,145,435.80
	TOTALS	£3,835,776.19	£1,707,746.99	£32,359,324.60
Thurso	Guarantee/EAGF Expenditure	£10,795,202.71	£0.00	£114,345,527.89
	Guidance rural Development Expenditure	£3,475,487.03	£3,323,728.26	£23,760,612.22
	Domestic	£4,257,043.10	£2,141,529.04	£33,390,891.46
	TOTALS	£18,527,732.84	£5,465,257.30	£171,497,031.57
	Overall Total of All Offices	£169,949,362.31	£50,973,035.89	£1,552,842,162.20

Question reference: S4W-20877

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 12 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how much its proposed Edinburgh-Glasgow high-speed rail line would cost to build, and whether it will provide details of the expected (a) capital and operating costs, (b) line capacity, (c) stations services would call at and (d) maximum speed of services.

Costs for the proposed Edinburgh-Glasgow high-speed rail line are in development, as are the details of capacity and service specifications. It is clear, however, that the case for and the detail of a high speed line between Edinburgh and Glasgow is dependent upon how HS2 is extended to Scotland beyond the current end-points of Leeds and Manchester. I announced in November 2013 the joint study with the Department for Transport on bringing HS2 to Scotland. My officials are fully engaged in that work, which will report in autumn 2014.

Question reference: S4W-20895

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, if Scotland became independent, how much it would cost Police Scotland to take on the functions currently carried out by the (a) British Transport Police, (b) Ministry of Defence Police and (c) Civil Nuclear Constabulary.

Ministers are ensuring that preparations are ongoing to ensure a smooth transition in the event of Scottish independence. Where appropriate this includes consideration of the transfer of functions to Scottish authorities.

The transition to independence provides a significant opportunity to improve and invest in public service delivery in Scotland.

Scottish taxpayers already contribute to UK expenditure on reserved functions. The elected government of an independent Scotland will have control over all public expenditure in Scotland and will be able to take spending decisions which reflect the priorities, needs and wishes of the Scottish people.

Further information is available on page 502 of Scotland’s Future.

Question reference: S4O-03214

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 May 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that there are enough supply teachers available for rural schools.

Question reference: S4W-20883

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 7 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how much Scotland spends annually on international development, expressed as a proportion of the UK's spend.

Question reference: S4W-20880

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, if Scotland became independent, what measures it would introduce to tackle tax avoidance, and how much additional revenue these would raise.

The Scottish Government plans to introduce a simple and transparent tax system after independence designed to minimise the opportunities for tax avoidance that have been exposed in the UK system, which mean that too many individual and corporate taxpayers do not pay their fair share of taxes. As set out on page 121 of Scotland’s Future – Your Guide to an Independent Scotland, over the course of the first independent parliament, the Scottish Government and Revenue Scotland will work together to simplify the tax system to reduce compliance costs, streamline reliefs and help to reduce tax avoidance, with a target revenue gain of £250 million a year by the end of the first term.

The Scottish Government is determined to act decisively on avoidance of devolved taxes. The Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Bill which is currently before Parliament contains powers which will enable Revenue Scotland to take robust action to counteract tax avoidance, including the introduction of a general anti-avoidance rule for the devolved taxes. The Scottish Government will seek to replicate this approach in developing a Scottish tax system following independence.

Question reference: S4W-20882

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, if Scotland became independent, at what rate it would set married couple's tax allowance; how many couples would benefit, and what the average annual benefit would be.

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