- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-14475 by Fiona Hyslop on 26 June 2008, how many staff were employed in (a) colleges and (b) universities in 2007-08, broken down into academic and non-academic staff, and when new statistics will be available.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses were built in Fife by registered social landlords or Fife Council in each of the last five years and how many are expected to be built in each of the next five years.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses were built by registered social landlords or local authorities in each of the last five years and how many are expected to be built in each of the next five years, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many freight movements have taken place on the Leven to Thornton railway line in each of the last 15 years, broken down by (a) company, (b) type of freight, (c) date and (d) time.
Answer
We do not hold this information centrally.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what it would cost to enable freight to be transported on the Leven to Thornton railway line.
Answer
The costs would be dependent on the level of service to operate on the line and the impact to existing infrastructure.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average class size was for (a) maths and (b) English in S1 and S2 in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This information is not generally collected centrally. It was collected in 2007 to measure progress against the previous administration''s target.
The information is published on the government website at the following link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/11/19125551/6.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average class size was for each secondary school age group in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This information is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has provided sufficient childcare discretionary funding to meet demand among student parents at college and university in 2008-09.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has provided sufficient discretionary funding to prevent student hardship in 2008-09.
Answer
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.
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- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether discretionary funds will meet demand among students in 2008-09.
Answer
The purpose of discretionary funds is not to meet every financial demand 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 in financial difficulty and who are at risk of not completing their courses.
