- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 5 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider requesting that the Privy Council delay its decisions on the proposed amendments to the charter and statutes of individual institutions until it has received proposals from the eight pre-1992 universities.
Answer
The Privy Council seeks Scottish ministers advice in light of applications it receives from individual institutions. The University of Stirling is the only Scottish institution which has applied to the Privy Council to make amendments to its academic staff employment statute. This has been referred to Scottish ministers who are currently considering the details of the proposals which were approved by the university''s governing body following consultation.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Salmond on 30 April 2009
To ask the First Minister whether reducing graduate debt or tackling student hardship should be the priority for the Scottish Government.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0430-01.htm
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 30 April 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will address concerns over the potential for a reduction in academic staff employment conditions at Stirling University following proposed changes to its academic staff statutes.
Answer
Universities, as autonomous bodies, are responsible for seeking to make changes to their own governance arrangements and ministers have no powers to direct them. However, the Privy Council seeks Scottish ministers advice on these matters and in considering these ministers will take account of all views expressed on any proposed changes.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 April 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cumulative total number of subjects offered by publicly funded schools was at (a) higher and (b) advanced higher level in 2008-09 and the previous five years, broken down by local authority area and school.
Answer
Copies of the requested data are available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 47914).
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 18 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will meet the recommendation in Lord Sutherland’s Independent Review of Free Personal and Nursing Care in Scotland to produce national outcomes and a national performance framework that makes specific reference to securing the welfare of older people.
Answer
The Scottish Government has accepted Lord Sutherland''s 12 recommendations in full and these are being taken forward alongside a wider package of measures we are developing in collaboration with local government and health service partners.
The government''s National Performance Framework focuses all of government and public services on a single overarching common purpose and provides clarity through a set of purpose targets and 15 National Outcomes that describe a 10-year vision of the kind of Scotland we want to create.
The interests of older people are reflected in a number of the National Outcomes. Full details of the outcomes the government wants to achieve and how well Scotland is progressing in pursuit of these aims can be found on the Scotland Performs website. Beneath the national level, strategic local priorities are aligned to the 15 National Outcomes and are set out in Single Outcome Agreements prepared by each local authority working with Community Planning Partners (CPPs).
The government recognises that other activity supports the achievement of the Purpose and National Outcomes. Where Community Care outcomes are concerned there is a National Outcomes Framework for Community Care Services which includes measures and targets relevant specifically to improving the quality of systems and processes which support delivery of outcomes for older people and other community care clients. All CPPs have been encouraged to use the framework as a basis for assessing and presenting progress towards more effective joint delivery of community care services and better outcomes for service users.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 18 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the charitable sector spent on medical research in universities in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07, (d) 2007-08 and (e) 2008-09, broken down by (i) institution and (ii) charity, and when new statistics will be available.
Answer
The following table provides details of charity income on medical research by institution in 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07.
| Institution | 2004-05 £ | 2005-06 £ | 2006-07 £ |
| Aberdeen, University of | 7,245,154 | 6,404,308 | 6,663,053 |
| Dundee, University of | 8,309,655 | 7,841,500 | 8,565,930 |
| Edinburgh, University of | 15,377,381 | 18,458,302 | 17,159,463 |
| Edinburgh Napier University | 45,571 | 93,113 | 110,285 |
| Glasgow Caledonian University | 233,074 | 275,770 | 364,406 |
| Glasgow, University of | 27,056,570 | 25,887,579 | 20,790,285 |
| Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh | 257,402 | 105,495 | 342,732 |
| Robert Gordon University | 86,027 | 69,375 | 99,722 |
| Stirling, University of | 42,655 | 78,011 | 264,513 |
| Strathclyde, University of | 1,606,839 | 1,285,774 | 1,685,324 |
| UHI Millennium Institute | 0 | 6,780 | 186,709 |
| West of Scotland, University of the | 8,574 | 73,000 | 28,378 |
| Total | 60,268,902 | 60,579,007 | 56,260,800 |
Note: For the purposes of this table, medical research is defined as 11 particular Units of Assessment, such as Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Nursing, in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. However, it is recognised that some other subjects outwith this definition, such as Chemistry, may include an element of charity funding for medical research.
Figures for 2007-08 will be published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) later this year. Details of charity income by particular charity are not recorded in the published accounts of the institutions nor collected by the Scottish Funding Council and are therefore unavailable.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 18 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the charitable sector spent on research in universities in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07, (d) 2007-08 and (e) 2008-09, broken down by (i) institution, (ii) charity and (iii) research topic, and when new statistics will be available.
Answer
The following table provides details of charity income by institution in 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07.
| Institution | 2004-05 £ | 2005-06 £ | 2006-07 £ |
| Aberdeen, University of | 9,235,788 | 8,280,866 | 8,695,144 |
| Abertay Dundee, University of | 85,566 | 155,224 | 126,728 |
| Dundee, University of | 22,455,063 | 19,644,127 | 21,597,762 |
| Edinburgh College of Art | 10,899 | 6,020 | 0 |
| Edinburgh Napier University | 263,995 | 198,537 | 195,698 |
| Edinburgh, University of | 28,405,688 | 31,549,604 | 32,033,136 |
| Glasgow Caledonian University | 335,122 | 354,015 | 508,182 |
| Glasgow, University of | 36,618,793 | 33,304,305 | 27,783,420 |
| Heriot-Watt University | 218,000 | 356,000 | 414,000 |
| Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh | 257,402 | 105,495 | 349,465 |
| Robert Gordon University | 90,938 | 115,773 | 136,321 |
| Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama | 17,000 | 0 | 0 |
| St Andrews, University of | 2,048,704 | 2,449,689 | 3,182,335 |
| Stirling, University of | 1,222,823 | 1,404,970 | 1,002,865 |
| Strathclyde, University of | 3,269,530 | 2,506,156 | 2,930,679 |
| UHI Milennium Institute | 114,695 | 120,086 | 325,557 |
| West of Scotland, University of the | 176,638 | 73,000 | 110,955 |
| Total | 104,844,642 | 100,623,868 | 99,392,245 |
A breakdown by charity and by research topic is not available as these details are not recorded in the published accounts of the institutions nor collected by the Scottish Funding Council. Figures for 2007-08 will be published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) later this year.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 17 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much universities received from the allocation based on charity income under the Main Quality Research Grant (a) for 2009-10 and (b) in each of the last five years, broken down by institution, and when new statistics will be available.
Answer
Support for charity-funded research has, since 2006-07, been provided by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) through two elements:
the Main Quality Research Grant based on the number of research active staff which includes staff funded by charity income, and
An additional allocation based on charity income received by institutions to fund research activities.
A full breakdown of support for research for 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09, by discipline, is publicly available in the Scottish Funding Council''s annual main grant letters for each higher education institutions (Table B2) at:
http://www.sfc.ac.uk/information/info_circulars/sfc/2006/sfc2206/sfc2206.html
http://www.sfc.ac.uk/information/info_circulars/sfc/2007/sfc1607/sfc1607.html
http://www.sfc.ac.uk/information/info_circulars/sfc/2008/sfc1008/sfc1008.html.
From 2009-10, a new funding model, the Research Excellence Grant, is being developed. Full details will be contained in SFC''s main grant letter for higher education institutions which will be available on the SFC website www.sfc.ac.uk from 2 April 2009.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 17 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the Scottish Funding Council will allocate to support charity funded research in 2009-10 and when new statistics will be available.
Answer
Full details will be contained in the Scottish Funding Council''s main grant letter for higher education institutions which will be published on 2 April 2009. This will be available on the SFC website at
www.sfc.ac.uk.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 17 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding to support charity funded research will continue to be allocated by the Scottish Funding Council (a) in 2009-10 and (b) beyond and when new statistics will be available.
Answer
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) will continue to support charity funded research through a new funding model, the Research Excellence Grant, from 2009-10.
Full details will be contained in SFC''s main grant letter for higher education institutions which will be published on 2 April 2009. This will be available on the SFC website www.sfc.ac.uk.
