Chamber and committees

This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise (SE) and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). I have asked the Chief Executives of both SE and HIE to contact you with the information you have requested and my understanding is that this will be with you soon.

A table containing Scottish Government grant funding for (a) Scottish Enterprise and (b) Highlands and Islands Enterprise is provided in the following tables:

SE cash budget since 2011-12 (£m)

HIE cash budget since 2011-12 (£m)

Notes:

(1) Data from annual accounts except for 2016-17(sourced from SG budget, SE’s Business Plan for 2015-18 and HIE’s Operating Plan 2016-19.

(2) The % difference is based on the budget allocation from the previous year.

(3) Above figures exclude ring-fenced DEL (non-cash).

There is no legislative requirement that would prevent a college from bidding for and being awarded a contract by a local authority because the college was in deficit.

EU

SFC match

Ayrshire College

£640,000

£426,624

£213,376

Glasgow College Region

£6,123,802

£4,082,126

£2,041,676

Lanarkshire College Region

£3,891,238

£2,593,899

£1,297,339

West College Scotland

£2,451,097

£1,633,901

£817,196

Total funding under YEI

£13,106,137

£8,736,551

£4,369,586

ESF - Developing Scotland's Workforce

Lowlands & Uplands Scotland

Borders College

£210,642

£84,257

£126,385

Dundee and Angus College

£2,362,999

£945,200

£1,417,799

Fife College

£1,014,702

£405,881

£608,821

Forth Valley College

£656,981

£262,792

£394,189

North East Scotland College

£1,004,495

£401,798

£602,697

West Lothian College

£318,283

£127,313

£190,970

SRUC

£149,210

£59,684

£89,526

Total funding under DSW (LUPS)

£5,717,312

£2,286,925

£3,430,387

Highlands & Island

UHI partner colleges (including Perth)

£1,610,029

£805,015

£805,015

Total funding under DSW (H&I)

£1,610,029

£805,015

£805,015

OVERALL TOTAL FUNDING ALLOCATED THROUGH ESF PROGRAMMES

£20,433,478

£11,828,490

£8,604,988

Source: Scottish Funding Council, October 2016

The audited accounts of incorporated colleges for the year ended 31 July 2016 are not due to be received by the Scottish Funding Council until the end of December 2016.

The financial health of the college sector in 2014-15 is reported in paragraphs 59-62 of the Audit Scotland report Scotland’s colleges 2016 , which is at http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/uploads/docs/report/2016/nr_160825_scotlands_colleges.pdf

Exhibit 10 of the report indicates that while the sector reported an overall deficit of £28 million in 2014-15, after taking account of adjustments (including technical accounting adjustments), the deficit decreases to £3 million, representing less than one per cent of income.

Source: Scottish Funding Council, October 2016

The information requested is already in the public domain.

Information on the Pledge elements met by businesses is given in the table entitled “Business Pledge – Statistical overview – August 2016”, a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib number 57653). This material is updated and published on a quarterly basis. https://scottishbusinesspledge.scot/.

There are currently 296 Scottish Business Pledge companies.

We welcomed the Audit Scotland report Supporting Scotland’s Economic Growth: The role of the Scottish Government and its Economic Development Agencies’, which formed part of the evidence base considered during phase 1 of the Enterprise and Skills review.

The Enterprise and Skills Review Phase 1 Report, published on 25 October encapsulates actions against the findings and recommendations raised in the Audit Scotland report. In addition, Phase 2 will take forward these issues over the course of its deliberations.

The gender pay gap for self-employed people in Scotland is not published in official sources. However total earnings by gender for self-employed individuals in Scotland is published in ‘Table 3.11 Income and tax by gender, region and country’ of the HMRC publication Personal Incomes Statistics 2013-14 table 3.1-3.11 which can be located at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/503472/SPI_National_Statistics_T3_1_to_T3_11.pdf

Although the Scottish Government does not, itself, hold the information requested as this is instead gathered by HMRC through its HMRC Survey of Personal Incomes, from which the above data is derived; we recognise that enterprises started and led by women often demonstrate different support requirements and display different growth trajectories to other businesses. As noted in answer to S5W-03525 on 27 October 2016, we are working with partners across all sectors, including Women’s Enterprise Scotland, to deliver a co-developed policy framework and action plan for women in enterprise.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

Our ‘Beating Cancer: Ambition and Action’ strategy and the accompanying £100 million investment over five years, serves as a blueprint for the future of cancer services in Scotland, improving the prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and aftercare of people affected by all cancers. This work links with our tobacco control strategy and the Prevention of Obesity Route Map as evidence shows that smoking and obesity are two of the biggest risk factors for renal cancer.