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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.

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.

 

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.

 

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

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

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.

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

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

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%

Evaluating the quality of provision for school pupils with additional support needs is an integral component of the current inspection model. All schools are inspected using five quality indicators from How Good Is Our School 3. For all children, including those with additional support needs, HM Inspectors evaluate the quality of learners’ experiences, their attainment and achievement, the use of tasks, activities, and resources, the quality of the school’s curriculum, and the capacity of the school to improve outcomes for all school pupils.

One of the quality indicators used by inspectors is 5.3 Meeting Learning Needs. This quality indicator has a particular focus on school pupils with additional support needs. For every school, HM Inspectors evaluate the quality of three specific themes within 5.3 Meeting Learning Needs. These are: identification of children’s specific additional support needs, the roles of teachers and specialist staff in meeting the needs of children with additional support needs, and meeting and implementing the requirements of legislation.

Existing legislative duties include:

Standards in Scotland’s Schools Act 2000

Education (Disability Strategies and Pupils’ Educational Records) (Scotland) Act 2002

Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (as amended)

Equality Act 2010

Children and Young People Act 2014

Education (Scotland) Act 2016

If a school has a ‘Weak’ evaluation for 5.3 Meeting Learning Needs, this would automatically trigger a follow-through inspection within a year. Prior to the follow-through inspection, the school would receive support from the local authority and Education Scotland to improve their performance in this area.

The Scottish Government monitors the progress of school pupils with additional support needs on an annual basis. Areas analysed include, attainment and achievement, exclusion rates, attendance, and positive destinations. Overall, the outcomes for school pupils with additional support needs are improving over time.