Chamber and committees

Skills Development Scotland report that annual spend on the Rural Supplement has been as follows:

• 2017-18: £939,750
• 2018-19: £1,034,750
• 2019-20 (as at 10 February 2020): £533,000
  

For 2017-18 and 2018-19 SDS paid a lump sum to training providers, based on a list of eligible apprentices. Consequently further breakdown is not available. Following a review with key stakeholders, eligibility criteria has been refined and is now based on the employer postcode. For 2019-20 the breakdown of spend by local authority and framework is provided in the following tables.

The Scottish Government has no responsibility for the UK Government’s Apprenticeship Levy which is a tax on employers. HMRC hold data on what is raised by the Levy.

The following table sets out Scottish Government funding for Apprenticeships in the years 2017-18 and 2018-19. Figures for 2019-20 will be available at the end of the financial year.

The following table provides a breakdown of Flexible Workforce Development Fund for the 2017-18 (£6.1m) and 2018-19 (£9.6m) Academic Years. Full information on the 2019-20 Academic Year, which is still in progress, is not available at this point.

Details are as follows:

The Scottish Government intends to dual the A9 between Perth and Inverness by 2025. Construction of the second section to be dualled between Luncarty and Birnam is progressing well and at the same time, design work continues at pace with eight of the remaining nine dualling schemes now subject to the statutory process. We are currently reviewing procurement options to bring forward the remainder of the programme following completion of the statutory process.

Design work is also well underway on the A96 Dualling Inverness to Aberdeen programme. The Scottish Government intends to dual the A96 by 2030, subject to the satisfactory completion of the statutory process for each section of the dualling programme.

The following table details the legal costs in relation to the disputes with (a) Pentland Ferries Ltd and (b) CalMac Ferries Ltd as at 30 January 2020.

Under the Transport Scotland “Trunk Road and Motorway Tourist Signing Guidance (2016)”, applicants are expected to meet the costs associated with the provision (design and installation) and replacement of tourist signs. General maintenance of erected signs is managed by Transport Scotland at no cost to the applicant.

The brown tourist information signs that are installed as part of our major trunk road improvement projects (e.g. Aberdeen Western Peripheral route) are included within the construction contract and the cost cannot be disaggregated from the overall cost of each project. This is commercial information as part of the contractors’ overall tender for each project.

For 2007-08 to 2014-15, information for those targets that were due for delivery in each year at a national level and NHS Board level is available at the UK Web Archive at the link below. Over this period, NHS Boards were also expected to deliver, on an ongoing basis, targets that been due for delivery in previous years. Consideration of whether these targets had been delivered by NHS Boards were able to be made each time data was updated in the Scotland Performs NHSScotland web pages. This was a ‘live’ system and these web pages have not been archived.

https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20180707034706/
http://www.gov.scot/About/Performance/scotPerforms/NHSScotland
performance/HEATstandards

National information showing trend performance against the LDP Standards for 2015-16 onwards, and NHS Board level information for the latest period is presented in the LDP Standard pages on the current Scottish Government website. Also included in these pages are links to the statistical publications including additional data.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/nhsscotland-performance-against-ldp-standards/pages/introduction/

 As apprentices are recruited by their employer it is not possible to record information on the number of unsuccessful applicants for modern apprenticeships.

NHS Boards’ spending on the independent sector represents 0.6% of the overall health resource budget, compared with 7.3% in England. Further detail is available in the annual accounts that are published online by each NHS Board.

We expect all NHS Boards to make best use of resources to deliver high quality services for the communities for which they are responsible. NHS Boards are able to set in place service level agreements with other NHS Bodies but can only procure services that comply with the procurement guidance set out by NHS National Procurement. This information is therefore held at an individual Board level.