- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 2 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimated income will be from Graduate Endowment from graduates who were classed as EU students when studying at higher education institutions in the first five years of its collection.
Answer
It is proposed the student support and the Graduate Endowment scheme will apply to Scottish domiciled and EU students entering higher education in Scotland in 2001-02 onwards. Liability to make a contribution will commence on graduation and collection will be income contingent.
Based on current numbers of EU students graduating from Scottish institutions, it is estimated that, when fully operational, £1 million would be contributed to the Scottish Budget each year in resource accounting terms. The actual numbers and level of contribution in each year will depend on (a) changes in the size of the EU student population; (b) graduate earnings which will affect the rate of repayment and c) system used for the collection of the liability from graduates whose domicile is not Scotland but other parts of the EU.Modelling on the flow of income is being undertaken. The treatment of income in terms of the Scottish Budget will require to be agreed with the National Audit Office.
- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 2 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether EU students who two years in their home county and then study a third and final year at a higher education institution, leaving with an ordinary degree, will be expected to contribute to the Graduate Endowment.
Answer
It is proposed that Scottish domiciled and EU students who graduate from a Scottish institution will be liable for student support and the Graduate Endowment. The detail of the arrangements is currently being considered and will be subject to consultation and approval by Parliament.
- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 2 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration has been given to the implications of the European Convention on Human Rights in relation to the payment of fourth year tuition fees by students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland studying at Scottish universities.
Answer
While this is a matter for the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, the Executive seeks appropriate advice on the legality of its own actions.
- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 1 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish domiciled students studying at higher education institutions in England, Wales or Northern Ireland are studying courses not available at higher education institutions in Scotland.
Answer
Information is not available centrally on how many Scottish domiciled students studying at higher education institutions in England, Wales or Northern Ireland are on courses not available at higher education institutions in Scotland.
- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 1 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish domiciled students are on courses which involve studying at a university in Scotland for a proportion of their course and at a higher education institution outside Scotland but within the United Kingdom for the remainder of their course.
Answer
In academic session 1999-2000 there are a total of 149 students attending a course in medicine jointly undertaken at St Andrews University and Manchester University. In addition there may be a number of students on "sandwich" courses which involve a placement at a higher education institution elsewhere in the United Kingdom but statistics on such courses are not available centrally.
- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 24 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been raised by bequest and public donations to Stracathro Hospital, Angus and how this money has been distributed in each financial year since 1980.
Answer
I understand from Tayside Health Board that the information which is available on income and expenditure from Stracathro Hospital Endowment Funds is as follows:
Donations | Special Funds | Total |
Year | Income | Expenditure | Income | Expenditure | Income | Expenditure |
| | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ |
| 1980-81 | (2,340) | 2,246 | | | (2,340) | 2,246 |
| 1981-82 | (572) | 574 | | | (572) | 574 |
| 1982-83 | (727) | 748 | | | (727) | 748 |
| 1983-84 | (1,769) | 1,245 | | | (1,769) | 1,245 |
| 1984-85 | (2,648) | 2,093 | | | (2,648) | 2,093 |
| 1985-86 | (1,943) | 3,731 | | | (1,943) | 3,731 |
| 1986-87 | (2,641) | 1,296 | | | (2,641) | 1,296 |
| 1987-88 | (6,534) | 426 | | | (6,534) | 426 |
| 1988-98 | (7,762) | 2,474 | | | (7,762) | 2,474 |
| 1989-90 | (12,348) | 9,216 | (1,338) | 251 | (13,686) | 9,487 |
| 1990-91 | (21,856) | 13,725 | (15,599) | 912 | (37,455) | 14,637 |
| 1991-92 | (12243) | 11,194 | (23,366) | 607 | (35,609) | 11,801 |
| 1992-93 | (18,606) | 24,132 | (18,070) | 1,295 | (35,676) | 25,427 |
| 1993-94 | (45,713) | 35,186 | (17,889) | 1,740 | (63,602) | 36,926 |
| 1994-95 | (35,804) | 47,033 | (2,438) | 50,470 | (38,242) | 97,506 |
| 1995-96 | (35,276) | 24,077 | (4,098) | 15,114 | (39,374) | 39,221 |
| 1996-97 | (36,505) | 26,972 | (12,281) | 14,288 | (48,786) | 41,260 |
| 1997-98 | (38,016) | 42,755 | (24,226) | 27,231 | (62,242) | 69,986 |
| 1998-99 | (28,136) | 47,800 | (69,560) | 31,782 | (97,696) | 78,562 |
| TOTAL | (312,439) | 296,923 | (186,865) | 143,720 | (499,304) | 440,843 |
Notes:
Pre 1 April 1994 Stracathro Hospital endowment accounts were part of Tayside Health Board Endowment Fund
1 April 1994 Angus NHS Trust formed - Stracathro Hospital endowment balance transferred to Angus NHS Trust
1 April 1999 Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust formed - Stracathro Hospital endowment balance transferred to TUHT NHS Trust
Figures do not include:
- shares of relevant Endowment Fund investment income- support from General Fund Endowment Account.
- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 January 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-661 by Susan Deacon on 28 September 1999, whether it can provide a more up to date estimate of the capital and running costs of fluoridating drinking water.
Answer
The water authorities have now refined their initial estimates of the total costs implied in introducing fluoridation schemes on the basis described in my previous Answer, to £34 million capital and £6.7 million annual operating costs.
- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Donald Dewar on 19 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1711 by the First Minister on 30 September 1999, whether it is yet in a position to publish a list of the contracts operated by Beattie Media on behalf of (i) the Scottish Executive; (ii) local authorities; (iii) local enterprise companies; (iv) health boards, and (v) health trusts.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S1W-1870.
- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 19 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1711 by the First Minister on 30 September 1999, whether it is yet in a position to specify the value of any contracts operated by Beattie Media on behalf of (i) the Scottish Executive; (ii) local authorities; (iii) local enterprise companies; (iv) health boards and (v) health trusts and whether they were secured by competitive tender.
Answer
The Scottish Executive published a report today on contacts and contracts between Scottish public bodies for which it has responsibility and professional public relations organisations. This report contains relevant information which is not commercially confidential.
- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 22 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether blood products exported to other European countries in the mid 1980's were tested for raised alanine aminotranferase (ALT) levels as an indicator of the presence of hepatitis and whether such a test was conducted on blood products given to patients.
Answer
No Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service blood products were exported to Europe in the mid-1980s.There has never been any requirement for blood products to be ALT tested for NHS patients.
