- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 July 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 5 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it (a) has or (b) has had plans to introduce a loan fund for communities seeking to upgrade roads to a standard that would allow them to be adopted by local authorities and, if so, whether it will provide details.
Answer
The Scottish Government has not introduced a loan fund specifically for communities seeking to upgrade roads to an adoptable standard and has no current plans to establish one for this purpose.The Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 ("the 1984 Act") places the statutory responsibility for local roads, including private roads, with local road authorities. While local road authorities are responsible for the improvement, maintenance and repair of public roads on its list of roads, section 14 of the 1984 Act - Power to contribute to, or carry out, work on private roads, enables them to contribute to the maintenance of private roads. Whether there are funds available to assist in any particular case is a matter for the relevant local roads authority. The Local Government Finance Settlement for 2016-17 is over £10.3 billion. It is the responsibility of individual local authorities to manage their own budgets and to allocate financial resources available to them on the basis of local needs and priorities. You may find the Communities Channel Scotland Website (www.communityscot.org.uk/resources/grow-your-community) helpful, funded by the Scottish Government and hosted by the Scottish Community Development Centre, it has useful information for community groups, including information on funding and support. You will also find links to other Community Funds on the Scottish Government website here: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Built-Environment/regeneration/communityfunds.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 2 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the value is of (a) food and drink and (b) all other goods from Scotland that are exported via ports in (i) Scotland and (ii) the rest of the UK.
Answer
The Scottish Government produces a National Statistics publication, Export Statistics Scotland, which estimates the nominal value of Scottish exports, including food and drink and other goods. It does not contain information on the ports through which Scottish exports exit the UK.
Latest published figures for 2014 estimate that Scottish exports from sectors involved in the manufacture of food and drink products were worth £4.8 billion, while other goods were worth £12.2 billion.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 2 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether all (a) food and drink and (b) other goods from Scotland that are exported via ports in the rest of the UK are identified as Scottish exports.
Answer
The Scottish Government produces a National Statistics publication, Export Statistics Scotland, which estimates the nominal value of Scottish exports, including food and drink and other goods. These estimates are based on the economic activity of the Scottish branches/operations of companies and are, therefore, independent of the ports through which goods exported from Scotland leave the UK.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) also publish quarterly estimates of Scottish goods exports by commodity and destination country. Trade is allocated by the postcode associated with a company’s VAT registration and again, independent of any port used to export.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 July 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many patient transfers between hospitals are undertaken by non-accident and emergency ambulance vehicles, broken down by ambulance station or equivalent.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-01268 on 29 July 2016. 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
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 July 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it measures the amount of time taken by non-emergency patient transfers by accident and emergency ambulances and, if so, what the most recent result is, broken down by ambulance station or equivalent.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-01268 on 29 July 2016. 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
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 July 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many patient transfers between hospitals have been undertaken by accident and emergency ambulance vehicles in each of the last three years, broken down by (a) ambulance station and (b) category of patient transfer, and what average length of time or distance was travelled.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring the provision of high quality, safe and effective NHS services in Scotland. The decision on whether or not a patient requires an inter Hospital transfer and the details of this transfer are made by trained clinicians.
The specific information you have requested is not held centrally by Scottish Government. I have asked the Scottish Ambulance Service to provide you with a response directly.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 July 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) accident and emergency ambulances and (b) patient transfer vehicles are based in each NHS board area, also expressed (i) on a per capita basis and (ii) as a ratio to number of patients treated by each board.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-01268 on 29 July 2016. 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
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 26 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been allocated by sportscotland to each local authority area in each of the last five years, also expressed on a per capita basis.
Answer
As the national agency for sport, sportscotland invests Scottish Government and National Lottery resources to build a world class sporting system for everyone in Scotland. They continually strive to ensure these resources are invested wisely so as to achieve best value and maximum impact.
sportscotland has invested in excess of £130 million across Scotland’s local authority areas over the past five years. sportscotland investment highlighted in the following table includes:
Integrated investment into Local Authorities (including Active Schools, Physical Education; School Sport Competitions; Young People/Leadership; Community Sports Hubs; Swim Top-Up; Active Girls; Positive Coaching Scotland)
Direct Club Investment in Local Authority areas
Facilities investment in Local Authority areas (including Sports Facilities Fund; Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund; sportsmatch; Cashback; Awards for All)
| Local Authority Area | 2011-12 Investment | £ per capita* | 2012-13 Investment | £ per capita | 2013-14 Investment | £ per capita | 2014-15 Investment | £ per capita | 2015-16 Investment | £ per capita |
| Aberdeen City | £475,783 | £2.14 | £672,007 | £3.02 | £1,201,871 | £5.39 | £853,083 | £3.83 | £628,697 | £2.82 |
| Aberdeenshire | £1,286,685 | £5.09 | £1,120,995 | £4.43 | £2,054,767 | £8.12 | £1,127,445 | £4.46 | £1,380,076 | £5.45 |
| Angus | £372,246 | £3.21 | £535,449 | £4.62 | £641,781 | £5.53 | £451,755 | £3.89 | £685,197 | £5.91 |
| Argyll and Bute | £796,699 | £9.03 | £627,794 | £7.12 | £591,767 | £6.71 | £815,590 | £9.25 | £434,488 | £4.93 |
| Clackmannanshire | £394,957 | £7.68 | £182,576 | £3.55 | £204,132 | £3.97 | £433,182 | £8.43 | £208,720 | £4.06 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | £487,058 | £3.22 | £1,008,780 | £6.67 | £1,879,774 | £12.42 | £669,055 | £4.42 | £711,036 | £4.70 |
| Dundee | £726,518 | £4.93 | £498,538 | £3.38 | £720,190 | £4.89 | £924,959 | £6.28 | £451,142 | £3.06 |
| East Ayrshire | £988,517 | £8.06 | £756,863 | £6.17 | £459,843 | £3.75 | £826,824 | £6.74 | £474,931 | £3.87 |
| East Dunbartonshire | £554,283 | £5.28 | £388,261 | £3.70 | £393,872 | £3.75 | £437,834 | £4.17 | £885,396 | £8.43 |
| East Lothian | £322,121 | £3.23 | £1,086,912 | £10.90 | £515,119 | £5.17 | £580,008 | £5.82 | £629,023 | £6.31 |
| East Renfrewshire | £316,822 | £3.50 | £706,544 | £7.80 | £500,042 | £5.52 | £319,559 | £3.53 | £395,988 | £4.37 |
| Edinburgh City | £1,051,975 | £2.21 | £1,315,799 | £2.76 | £2,277,574 | £4.78 | £1,499,682 | £3.15 | £1,329,013 | £2.79 |
| Falkirk | £369,689 | £2.37 | £511,446 | £3.28 | £816,266 | £5.23 | £937,391 | £6.01 | £734,818 | £4.71 |
| Fife | £777,785 | £2.13 | £1,520,293 | £4.16 | £1,584,519 | £4.34 | £1,708,520 | £4.68 | £2,285,179 | £6.26 |
| Glasgow City | £1,552,277 | £2.62 | £1,950,511 | £3.29 | £1,864,998 | £3.14 | £2,411,992 | £4.07 | £1,509,341 | £2.54 |
| Highland | £1,377,920 | £5.94 | £1,812,707 | £7.81 | £1,555,229 | £6.70 | £2,043,836 | £8.81 | £2,447,168 | £10.54 |
| Inverclyde | £371,179 | £4.55 | £617,065 | £7.57 | £483,416 | £5.93 | £527,702 | £6.47 | £427,985 | £5.25 |
| Midlothian | £231,341 | £2.78 | £277,016 | £3.33 | £474,481 | £5.70 | £370,295 | £4.45 | £288,744 | £3.47 |
| Moray | £290,529 | £3.11 | £409,140 | £4.39 | £346,829 | £3.72 | £476,637 | £5.11 | £625,407 | £6.70 |
| North Ayrshire | £941,058 | £6.81 | £1,301,222 | £9.42 | £554,011 | £4.01 | £1,307,820 | £9.46 | £491,161 | £3.55 |
| North Lanarkshire | £1,287,323 | £3.81 | £1,879,166 | £5.56 | £1,666,527 | £4.93 | £1,088,526 | £3.22 | £1,342,103 | £3.97 |
| Orkney | £291,364 | £13.62 | £368,484 | £17.22 | £216,664 | £10.12 | £254,114 | £11.87 | £173,580 | £8.11 |
| Perth and Kinross | £501,999 | £3.42 | £710,806 | £4.85 | £1,713,512 | £11.68 | £963,226 | £6.57 | £821,389 | £5.60 |
| Renfrewshire | £1,449,005 | £8.28 | £510,769 | £2.92 | £584,675 | £3.34 | £936,928 | £5.36 | £944,192 | £5.40 |
| Scottish Borders | £641,812 | £5.63 | £1,189,760 | £10.45 | £759,586 | £6.67 | £617,146 | £5.42 | £1,121,959 | £9.85 |
| Shetland | £204,678 | £8.82 | £520,648 | £22.44 | £376,030 | £16.21 | £264,998 | £11.42 | £782,369 | £33.72 |
| South Ayrshire | £488,958 | £4.33 | £466,608 | £4.14 | £825,688 | £7.32 | £529,348 | £4.69 | £944,775 | £8.38 |
| South Lanarkshire | £907,628 | £2.89 | £1,020,539 | £3.25 | £1,468,831 | £4.68 | £1,150,409 | £3.67 | £1,462,808 | £4.66 |
| Stirling Council | £398,352 | £4.42 | £683,840 | £7.58 | £734,869 | £8.15 | £787,703 | £8.73 | £426,962 | £4.73 |
| West Dunbartonshire Council | £297,641 | £3.28 | £743,933 | £8.20 | £401,204 | £4.42 | £321,763 | £3.55 | £572,079 | £6.31 |
| West Lothian Council | £873,803 | £4.99 | £771,959 | £4.41 | £913,481 | £5.22 | £887,159 | £5.07 | £910,696 | £5.20 |
| Western Isles | £707,095 | £25.53 | £414,706 | £14.97 | £238,328 | £8.60 | £311,448 | £11.24 | £227,709 | £8.22 |
*Council population size based on Scotland’s Census 2011
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 June 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 25 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many and what percentage of (a) pupils with additional support needs and (b) hours of support provision there have been in each of the last five years, also broken down by local authority.
Answer
The following tables show how many and the percentage of pupils with additional support needs in each local authority for the last five years.
The information on hours of support provision is not held centrally.
| | Number of pupils with an Additional Support Need |
| All sectors | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| Aberdeen City | 2027 | 2393 | 2712 | 2671 | 3533 |
| Aberdeenshire | 9619 | 10066 | 10575 | 11422 | 12554 |
| Angus | 1318 | 1461 | 1488 | 1617 | 1585 |
| Argyll and Bute | 1737 | 1720 | 1817 | 1904 | 2026 |
| Clackmannanshire | 720 | 1203 | 1601 | 1625 | 1682 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 2460 | 3939 | 4410 | 4687 | 4967 |
| Dundee City | 2083 | 2265 | 2398 | 2487 | 3018 |
| East Ayrshire | 2676 | 2958 | 3128 | 3216 | 3610 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1485 | 2134 | 2942 | 3147 | 3377 |
| East Lothian | 2359 | 2656 | 2953 | 2945 | 2925 |
| East Renfrewshire | 1707 | 2617 | 2562 | 2821 | 2920 |
| Edinburgh City | 7351 | 8506 | 9383 | 9754 | 11263 |
| Eilean Siar | 972 | 1018 | 966 | 1056 | 1105 |
| Falkirk | 1906 | 2365 | 2923 | 3283 | 3499 |
| Fife | 6708 | 6603 | 6892 | 7035 | 8343 |
| Glasgow City | 14490 | 21425 | 21320 | 21004 | 19701 |
| Highland | 5647 | 6686 | 7258 | 7439 | 10344 |
| Inverclyde | 1509 | 1981 | 2173 | 2387 | 2573 |
| Midlothian | 923 | 1435 | 1839 | 2236 | 2735 |
| Moray | 1426 | 1731 | 2384 | 2747 | 3197 |
| North Ayrshire | 2685 | 3312 | 3972 | 4675 | 4903 |
| North Lanarkshire | 3222 | 3451 | 3595 | 3746 | 3930 |
| Orkney Islands | 257 | 504 | 577 | 620 | 702 |
| Perth and Kinross | 4194 | 4596 | 5097 | 5565 | 5843 |
| Renfrewshire | 1670 | 1778 | 3240 | 3320 | 3343 |
| Scottish Borders | 1191 | 1757 | 2521 | 3622 | 4136 |
| Shetland Islands | 803 | 737 | 678 | 700 | 753 |
| South Ayrshire | 3529 | 3865 | 2961 | 1676 | 1635 |
| South Lanarkshire | 2928 | 3288 | 6284 | 8211 | 9126 |
| Stirling | 1324 | 1634 | 2817 | 3007 | 3097 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 4323 | 4456 | 4571 | 4574 | 4383 |
| West Lothian | 2702 | 2944 | 3225 | 5003 | 6069 |
| All local authorities | 97951 | 117484 | 131262 | 140202 | 152877 |
| Grant aided | 276 | 334 | 342 | 322 | 315 |
| Scotland | 98227 | 117818 | 131604 | 140524 | 153192 |
| | Percentage of pupils with an Additional Support Need |
| All sectors | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| Aberdeen City | 9.5% | 11.2% | 12.5% | 12.1% | 15.9% |
| Aberdeenshire | 28.3% | 29.6% | 30.7% | 32.6% | 35.7% |
| Angus | 8.6% | 9.7% | 9.9% | 10.7% | 10.5% |
| Argyll and Bute | 15.7% | 16.0% | 17.0% | 18.0% | 19.4% |
| Clackmannanshire | 11.0% | 18.2% | 24.1% | 24.8% | 25.5% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 12.7% | 20.6% | 23.3% | 24.9% | 26.5% |
| Dundee City | 12.0% | 13.0% | 13.7% | 14.1% | 16.8% |
| East Ayrshire | 16.6% | 18.4% | 19.5% | 20.2% | 22.6% |
| East Dunbartonshire | 9.4% | 13.4% | 18.3% | 19.4% | 20.6% |
| East Lothian | 17.7% | 19.7% | 21.6% | 21.5% | 21.1% |
| East Renfrewshire | 10.5% | 16.2% | 15.8% | 17.2% | 17.6% |
| Edinburgh City | 16.5% | 18.9% | 20.4% | 20.8% | 23.6% |
| Eilean Siar | 27.4% | 29.1% | 28.1% | 31.4% | 33.0% |
| Falkirk | 9.2% | 11.3% | 13.9% | 15.4% | 16.3% |
| Fife | 14.1% | 13.8% | 14.3% | 14.5% | 17.1% |
| Glasgow City | 22.4% | 33.1% | 32.7% | 32.1% | 29.8% |
| Highland | 18.2% | 21.6% | 23.5% | 24.2% | 33.6% |
| Inverclyde | 14.6% | 19.4% | 21.5% | 23.8% | 25.9% |
| Midlothian | 7.9% | 12.1% | 15.5% | 18.6% | 22.3% |
| Moray | 12.0% | 14.5% | 19.9% | 22.8% | 26.8% |
| North Ayrshire | 14.5% | 18.0% | 21.7% | 25.7% | 27.1% |
| North Lanarkshire | 6.6% | 7.1% | 7.4% | 7.6% | 8.0% |
| Orkney Islands | 9.6% | 18.9% | 21.8% | 23.3% | 26.3% |
| Perth and Kinross | 24.1% | 26.2% | 29.0% | 31.4% | 32.8% |
| Renfrewshire | 7.1% | 7.6% | 13.9% | 14.3% | 14.4% |
| Scottish Borders | 8.0% | 11.9% | 17.3% | 24.9% | 28.5% |
| Shetland Islands | 24.4% | 22.8% | 20.9% | 21.7% | 23.3% |
| South Ayrshire | 24.7% | 27.2% | 20.9% | 12.0% | 11.6% |
| South Lanarkshire | 6.8% | 7.6% | 14.6% | 19.0% | 21.0% |
| Stirling | 10.7% | 13.2% | 23.0% | 24.4% | 25.0% |
| West Dunbartonshire | 35.2% | 36.2% | 36.9% | 37.0% | 35.3% |
| West Lothian | 10.5% | 11.3% | 12.3% | 19.0% | 22.8% |
| All local authorities | 14.6% | 17.5% | 19.5% | 20.7% | 22.5% |
| Grant aided | 20.8% | 25.5% | 26.5% | 25.1% | 25.1% |
| Scotland | 14.6% | 17.6% | 19.5% | 20.8% | 22.5% |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 June 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 25 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how the demand for additional support needs in schools is taken into account as part of the local government funding formula and what the specific adjustment has been for Moray in each of the last five years.
Answer
The local government finance settlements were maintained over the period 2012-16 with extra money for additional responsibilities and the total settlement for 2016-17 amounts to over £10.3 billion. Moray Council receives its fair share of this total sum, through the needs based formula, which amounts to over £164.7 million tin 2016.
The vast majority of the revenue funding, including funding for additional support needs in schools, is being provided by means of a block grant and as a result funding for individual services is not separately identifiable. It is the responsibility of individual local authorities to manage their own budgets and to allocate the total financial resources available to them on the basis of local needs and priorities, having first fulfilled their statutory obligations and the jointly agreed set of national and local priorities.
The 2015 annual report to Parliament on the implementation of additional support for learning legislation indicates that education authorities spent just over £4.8 billion on education in Scotland. Of that, £579 million is spent on additional support for learning. This is an increase of £24 million on 2014 expenditure. This equates to just over 12% of the overall spend on education in Scotland and an increase of 1% on 2014.
