- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 March 2021
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 24 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what resources it has provided for investment in the West College Scotland campus.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 24 March 2021
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 March 2021
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 16 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it and Police Scotland are ensuring that women are protected from harassment and violence.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 16 March 2021
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 11 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what public funding it has provided to Rolls Royce, and what associated provisions or requirements were placed on any funding.
Answer
Information regarding account management support provided by Scottish Enterprise is an operational matter for that agency. I have asked the agency’s Chief Executive to respond to you directly.
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what priority will be given to supermarket workers regarding the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
Answer
We are thankful to all the supermarket workers across the country for their continued hard work to ensure that our communities and individuals have access to food supplies especially during these challenging times.
But all decisions to prioritise one population group over another are not taken lightly, nor are they straightforward. That is why our prioritisation decisions have been, and will continue to be, guided by the independent expert advice from the JCVI, who have clearly assessed that age is the greatest risk factor from Covid-19 harm.
We are working to get vaccines to everyone as quickly as we can, and hope to have vaccinated all those on the JCVI prioritisation list by the end of spring 2021, vaccine supplies permitting.
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 5 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the "digital platform to record vaccinations" that it plans to develop, as outlined in its draft Budget, will allow for the deployment of an effective and secure health passport system as part of its response to COVID-19.
Answer
We continue to engage in international developments in relation to Coronavirus (COVID-19), including on the issue of vaccine certification.
These discussions are led by the World Health Organisation and include consideration of technical details, ethical and equality issues, and privacy standards. The outcome of those discussions will guide our work in this area.
It is too soon to introduce any form of certification. We need to know more about the efficacy of the vaccines, their impact on transmission and the length of immunity before it would be safe to introduce a vaccine certificate.
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 5 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it plans to develop a "digital platform to record vaccinations", as outlined in its draft Budget, and how it plans to utilise the data collected from the platform.
Answer
The digital platform to record vaccinations has been commissioned to NHS NSS. The system will record COVID19 vaccinations and the data will be used to inform the decisions of clinicians, organisation of second doses of COVID19 vaccinations and any other future COVID19 vaccinations.
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 4 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much capital investment there has been in each further education college in each year since 2007.
Answer
Since 2007 [i] the Scottish Government has invested £823 million in the college estates [ii]. This investment, broken down by college, is noted in the following table.
Since 2012-13 a further £330 million has been invested through Non-Profit Distribution (NPD). The Scottish Government also funds the unitary charge on the NPD college projects [iii].
College | Total capital funding 2007-20 (formulaic & projects) |
Aberdeen College | 22,496,223 |
Adam Smith College | 9,447,958 |
Angus College | 3,168,723 |
Anniesland College | 45,960,931 |
Ayr College | 8,650,699 |
Ayrshire College | 17,653,621 |
Banff & Buchan College of Further Education | 24,386,567 |
Barony College | 1,064,694 |
Borders College | 20,329,527 |
Cardonald College | 5,920,999 |
Carnegie College | 5,615,212 |
Central College of Commerce | 2,981,252 |
City of Glasgow College | 30,580,434 |
Clydebank College | 9,531,475 |
Coatbridge College | 20,607,430 |
Cumbernauld College | 3,562,195 |
Dumfries & Galloway College | 26,476,758 |
Dundee and Angus College | 10,260,445 |
Dundee College | 37,854,197 |
Edinburgh's Telford College | 8,752,227 |
Edinburgh College | 30,636,919 |
Elmwood College | 2,190,438 |
Fife College | 24,756,624 |
Forth Valley College | 108,360,221 |
Glasgow Clyde College | 12,746,254 |
Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | 21,122,641 |
Glasgow Kelvin College | 9,677,006 |
Glasgow Metropolitan College | 5,250,493 |
Inverness College UHI | 13,667,825 |
James Watt College of Further & Higher Education | 11,330,398 |
Jewel & Esk College | 27,396,967 |
John Wheatley College | 2,863,270 |
Kilmarnock College | 6,337,007 |
Langside College | 35,991,485 |
Lews Castle College UHI | 2,667,323 |
Moray College UHI | 5,023,041 |
Motherwell College | 46,428,145 |
New College Lanarkshire | 19,089,051 |
Newbattle Abbey College | 1,549,815 |
North East Scotland College | 13,247,430 |
North Glasgow College | 24,905,814 |
North Highland College UHI | 7,107,972 |
Oatridge College | 1,260,752 |
Orkney College UHI | 1,556,568 |
Perth College UHI | 4,954,370 |
Reid Kerr College | 6,336,460 |
Sabhal Mor Ostaig UHI | 2,436,257 |
Shetland College UHI | 2,220,208 |
South Lanarkshire College | 11,070,969 |
SRUC | 3,196,789 |
Stevenson College | 6,426,663 |
Stow College | 4,464,718 |
West College Scotland | 16,912,492 |
West Lothian College | 12,317,187 |
West Highland College UHI | 2,387,180 |
Total | 823,188,319 |
[i] 2007 to 2018 spans the period where the sector underwent major regional mergers: some investments were in campuses which are now part of larger regional colleges.
[ii] That is, since 2007, colleges have received £823 million grant payments for capital from the Scottish Funding Council.
[iii] Since 2012-13 Scottish Government has funded the following unitary charges:
Ayrshire College - £16,665,856:
City of Glasgow - £76,925,000;
Inverness College UHI - £21,901,957
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 4 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been provided to each further education college as a result of the 2017 college sector estates condition survey.
Answer
Of the annual capital funding allocation provided, each college received backlog and lifecycle maintenance as detailed in Tables A & B. The first column lists funding allocated to address the very high and high priority backlog maintenance identified by the 2017 college sector estates condition survey.
Table A shows that £26.89m in FY 2018-19 and Table B that £12.39m in FY 2019-20 was provided to the college sector to address the backlog maintenance identified by the 2017 survey.
Table A: Final Capital funding for FY 2018-19 | | |
College/Region | FY 2018-19 final capital based on gross very high priority backlog maintenance | FY 2018-19 final capital for lifecycle maintenance based on share of volume target | Total FY 2018-19 final capital funding for lifecycle & very high priority backlog maintenance | |
| £ | £ | £ | |
Ayrshire College | 2,764,749 | 928,983 | 3,693,732 | |
Borders College | 76,494 | 188,480 | 264,974 | |
Dumfries & Galloway College | 155,301 | 225,913 | 381,214 | |
Dundee & Angus College | 1,235,693 | 773,468 | 2,009,162 | |
Edinburgh College | 2,673,397 | 1,397,086 | 4,070,483 | |
Fife College | 1,693,221 | 975,008 | 2,668,229 | |
Forth Valley College | 56,245 | 630,382 | 686,626 | |
Glasgow Region | 3,494,799 | 2,759,497 | 6,254,296 | |
Highlands & Islands Region | 3,844,150 | 822,257 | 4,666,406 | |
Lanarkshire Region | 6,180,455 | 1,291,778 | 7,472,233 | |
Newbattle Abbey College 1 | 97,316 | 0 | 97,316 | |
North East Scotland College | 1,464,603 | 996,239 | 2,460,842 | |
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig 1 | 120,257 | 0 | 120,257 | |
SRUC | 0 | 170,294 | 170,294 | |
West College Scotland | 3,003,981 | 1,181,794 | 4,185,775 | |
West Lothian College 2 | 34,579 | 168,820 | 203,399 | |
Scotland | 26,895,240 | 12,510,000 | 39,405,240 | |
1 - Newbattle Abbey College & Sabhal Mòr Ostaig do not receive capital for lifecycle maintenance funding. |
2 - West Lothian College's capital funding is adjusted to reflect the repayment of a loan. | |
Table B: Final capital funding for FY 2019-20 | | |
College/Region | FY 2019-20 final capital based on gross high priority backlog maintenance | FY 2019-20 final capital for lifecycle maintenance based on share of volume target | Total final capital funding based on high priority backlog & lifecycle maintenance | |
| £ | £ | £ | |
Ayrshire College | 124,000 | 645,000 | 769,000 | |
Borders College | 138,000 | 131,000 | 269,000 | |
Dumfries & Galloway College | 27,000 | 157,000 | 184,000 | |
Dundee & Angus College | 1,109,000 | 537,000 | 1,646,000 | |
Edinburgh College | 1,455,000 | 971,000 | 2,426,000 | |
Fife College | 964,000 | 677,000 | 1,641,000 | |
Forth Valley College | 0 | 438,000 | 438,000 | |
Glasgow Region | 1,623,000 | 1,917,000 | 3,540,000 | |
Highlands & Islands Region | 958,000 | 574,000 | 1,532,000 | |
Lanarkshire Region | 1,165,000 | 887,000 | 2,052,000 | |
Newbattle Abbey College 1 | 762,000 | 0 | 762,000 | |
North East Scotland College | 1,617,000 | 692,000 | 2,309,000 | |
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig 1 | 216,000 | 0 | 216,000 | |
SRUC | 492,000 | 118,000 | 610,000 | |
West College Scotland | 1,710,000 | 821,000 | 2,531,000 | |
West Lothian College 2 | 35,000 | 69,000 | 104,000 | |
Scotland | 12,395,000 | 8,634,000 | 21,029,000 | |
1 - Newbattle Abbey College and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig do not receive capital funding for lifecycle maintenance. |
2 - West Lothian College's capital funding is adjusted to reflect a loan repayment. | |
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 February 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that people with learning disabilities who are living in supported accommodation will receive the COVID-19 vaccination as part of priority group 6, and when this group will begin to be vaccinated.
Answer
We understand that many people with mild and moderate Learning/Intellectual disabilities will be eligible for priority group 6 due to underlying health conditions.
We believe our more straightforward approach of inviting everyone with a learning disability for vaccination during cohort 6 will bring peace of mind and add a small number of people to the current cohort who would have otherwise been offered vaccination later.
Priority group 6 is one of the largest on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) list. It will take several weeks to provide first doses to everyone and the speed with which we can offer first doses is dependent on our supplies.
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 February 2021
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 4 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the finance secretary had with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in advance of setting the health expenditure in its 2021-22 Budget.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 4 March 2021