- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 February 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 30 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of figures in its publication, Exports Statistics Scotland 2016, whether it will provide an estimated breakdown of the £745 million fall in professional, scientific and technical activities exports to the rest of the UK.
Answer
The latest figures show exports of professional, scientific and technical activities to the rest of the UK were down £745 million in 2016 which was a 16 per cent decrease.
Within this sector, the largest decrease was in architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis, down £640 million. Much of this sector are involved in providing support services to the oil and gas industry and this decrease is likely to be related to the downturn in the oil and gas sector.
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 May 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made with the feasibility study on introducing a junction improvement on the A84 near Blair Drummond Safari Park.
Answer
Transport Scotland has commissioned its operating company BEAR Scotland to undertake a feasibility study and outline design, including indicative costs, for potential improvements to the existing junction between the A84 and A873 junction. The study will examine options for amending the junction, taking into consideration engineering and topographical constraints and traffic counts have already been carried out to inform this work. This data is currently being collated and analysed to allow design solutions to be developed. Subject to the outcome of this initial phase, the report aims to report by the end of Summer 2018.
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 24 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when its revised China Engagement Strategy will be published.
Answer
The revised China Engagement Strategy will be published shortly.
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 May 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 22 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many looked-after children in the Mid-Scotland and Fife region have progressed to S (a) 5 and (b) 6 in each of the last five years, also broken down by how many received Education Maintenance Allowance.
Answer
We don't hold the requested information on Education Maintenance Allowance. We also do not have figures for looked after children progressing to S5 or S6, but we do have information available for looked after children leaving school.
Table 1 shows the stage of school leavers who were looked after for at least part of the year in Mid-Scotland and Fife region. These figures include children who were looked after for part of the year and for the full year.
Table 2 shows the same figures for Scotland for comparison.
Table 1: Stage of school leavers who were looked after for at least part of the year, Mid-Scotland and Fife region |
| | Percentage | Number |
Student Stage | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | |
S4 and earlier | 47 | 52 | 40 | 49 | 41 | | 58 | 51 | 37 | 68 | 57 | |
S5 | 42 | 42 | 41 | 33 | 40 | | 52 | 41 | 38 | 46 | 56 | |
S6 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 19 | | 14 | 6 | 17 | 25 | 26 | |
Table 2: Stage of school leavers who were looked after for at least part of the year, Scotland | | | |
| | Percentage | Number |
Student Stage | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
S4 and earlier | 48 | 50 | 49 | 47 | 47 | | 416 | 478 | 411 | 397 | |
S5 | 41 | 41 | 37 | 38 | 37 | | 355 | 387 | 311 | 317 | |
S6 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 16 | | 88 | 90 | 123 | 125 | |
Further comparison with all children leaving school is available in Table 1 in the Summary Statistics for Attainment, Leaver Destinations and Healthy Living publication, http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/06/9699/downloads
For Education Maintenance Allowance, we don’t hold the information on which school year the child is in, or if they are looked after.
The data that we hold on Education Maintenance Allowance is published by Local Authority on our website, split by age. http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/05/4521
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 May 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 22 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the Scottish GDP per capita has been in each of the last 12 years.
Answer
GDP per capita statistics are published in Table B of Quarterly National Accounts Scotland. The latest publication, for 2017 Quarter 4, is available at http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Economy/QNAS2017Q4
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 May 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 21 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how it defines "inclusive growth" for the purposes of its economic strategy.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-15066 on 14 March 2018. 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 .
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 May 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 21 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the gender pay gap for Scottish Enterprise (a) employees and (b) senior management has been in each of the last two years.
Answer
This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise.
I have passed your query to Paul Lewis, the Interim Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise, who will provide an answer to you directly.
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 May 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 21 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) average annual wage increase and (b) total annual remuneration increase has been for Scottish Enterprise (i) employees and (ii) senior management in each of the last 10 years.
Answer
This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise.
I have passed your query to Paul Lewis, the Interim Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise, who will provide an answer to you directly.
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 May 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 21 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how it measures changes to inclusive growth over any given time period.
Answer
I direct you to the National Performance Framework (NPF) which can be accessed at the following link: http://www.gov.scot/About/Performance/scotPerforms
The NPF underpins delivery of the Scottish Government’s priorities and monitors the delivery of the Scottish Government’s purpose. It contains several indicators that are important for monitoring progress toward inclusive growth including; reducing the pay gap, reducing the proportion of employees earning less than the Living Wage and reducing the proportion of individuals living in poverty. The NPF is currently under review and once this process is complete a dedicated inclusive growth monitoring framework / indicator dashboard will be developed and aligned to it. This material will be published as part of the Centre for Regional Inclusive Growth.
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 May 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 21 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) quarterly and (b) annual changes there have been to inclusive growth since this was included as part of its economic strategy.
Answer
Similar to question S5W-16345 answered on 21 May 2018, I direct you to the National Performance Framework (NPF) which can be accessed at the following link: http://www.gov.scot/About/Performance/scotPerforms
The NPF underpins delivery of the Scottish Government’s priorities and monitors the delivery of the Scottish Government’s purpose. It contains several indicators that are important for monitoring progress toward inclusive growth including; reducing the pay gap, reducing the proportion of employees earning less than the Living Wage and reducing the proportion of individuals living in poverty. The NPF is currently under review and once this process is complete a dedicated inclusive growth monitoring framework / indicator dashboard will be developed and aligned to it. This material will be published as part of the Centre for Regional Inclusive Growth.
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 .
