- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 29 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many further education students in (a) full-time and (b) part-time education are paying council tax.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 29 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many night class students are paying council tax.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 29 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many higher education students in (a) full-time and (b) part-time education are paying council tax.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 29 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many distance learning students are paying council tax.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 29 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Open University students are paying council tax.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 27 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has provided to institutions to alleviate student hardship in each of the last three years and how much it will provide in each of the next three years.
Answer
The total amounts allocated to institutions to alleviate hardship over the past three years is as follows:
2007-08: £14.7 million
2006-07: £14.4 million
2005-06: £13.7 million.
The total allocation for 2008-09 has not yet been finalised but will increase in line with inflation. It will also include an additional £1 million that has been provided to support the new package of support for part-time students. The figure for subsequent years cannot be provided at this stage but it would be expected to rise in line with inflation.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-12118 by John Swinney on 30 April 2008, whether that answer indicates that it has carried out an impact assessment into the local income tax and its effect on students.
Answer
We have made initial estimates of the likely impact on students of the local income tax proposals which are currently the subject of a consultation exercise. We are consulting student representative organisations, amongst others, as part of that consultation. We intend to assess the results of the consultation exercise currently underway before deciding the next steps.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-12119 by John Swinney on 30 April 2008, whether that answer indicates that it has carried out an evaluation of the proposed local income tax and its effect on students.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12905 on 22 May 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-12123 by John Swinney on 30 April 2008, what its current estimate is of how much the student population in Scotland as a whole would pay under the proposed local income tax.
Answer
The answer would depend on a range of factors and it would not be appropriate to seek to estimate these at this stage.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide calculations for the basis of the First Minister’s statements on 24 April 2008 that around 160,000 students are not liable for the council tax and that the vast majority of these students do not earn enough to pay the local income tax (Official Report, c. 7934).
Answer
As a point of clarification, the First Minister referred in Parliament on 24 April 2008 to around 160,000 students in Scotland not earning enough to pay local income tax. He did not say that 160,000 students are currently not liable for the council tax.
The total number of full time students in Scottish institutions in 2006-07 was 228,795. Initial estimates, using earnings related data for full-time students, indicated that perhaps around three quarters of these would not earn sufficient to bring them over the level of the personal allowance. The number who would be liable at the time of introduction of a local income tax would of course depend on the level of the personal allowance at that time.
