- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will address concerns of West Lothian and North Lanarkshire councils that the emphasis of the city review will lead to a diminution of the role of urban economies between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Answer
It would be wrong to concludethat implementation of the Review of Scotland's Cities might lead to adiminution in the role of urban economies elsewhere in Scotland – particularlyin areas such as West Lothian and North Lanarkshire, whose economic success is veryclosely bound up with that of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Onthe contrary, the whole emphasis of our urban policy is to view cities in thecontext of their wider city regions. Our framework policy document for Scotland'scities – Building Better Cities – emphasises the fundamental importance ofclose collaboration between cities and their surrounding regions.
Cities and their community planningpartners must draw together the wider city-region view, because many of theissues to be addressed – such as economic development, land-use planning,health-care and transport – require a perspective spanning the entire city-regionand beyond.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether additional academic staff are being recruited for the purpose of training teachers as part of the expansion of initial teacher training announced in its press release SEed539/2004 on 23 February 2004.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Staff recruitment is a matter for individual higher education institutions.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it provides to alleviate student hardship in (a) higher education institutions and (b) further education colleges.
Answer
The following table gives the amount of Hardship Funds, Hardship Loans and Mature Students’ Bursary Funds (MSBF) allocated to both further and higher education institutions and the amount of Young Students’ Retention Fund (YSRF) allocated to further education institutions in 2003-04.
| | Further Education Colleges | Higher Education Institutes | |
| | FE Students | HE Students | Undergraduate Students | Postgraduate Students | Total |
| Hardship Funds | £3,518,452 | £279,644 | £2,989,356 | £1,239,828 | £8,027,280 |
| Hardship Loans | n/a | £275,100 | £717,400 | n/a | £992,500 |
| MSBF | n/a | £4,432,664 | £4,267,336 | n/a | £8,700,000 |
| YSRF | £1,679,360 | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,679,360 |
| | | | | | £19,399,140 |
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students domiciled in other areas of the United Kingdom are studying in Scottish higher education institutions and how many Scottish-domiciled students are studying in higher education institutions in other areas of the UK.
Answer
In 2001-02, there were 27,223students domiciled in other areas of the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland)studying in Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and 13,044 studentsdomiciled in Scotland studying in HEIs in other areas of the United Kingdom.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers qualified in the last year and how many teachers it expects to qualify in each year up to 2007 with an (a) Bachelor of Education and (b) Postgraduate Certificate in Education.
Answer
Information on how many teachers qualified in session 2002-03 and projections of how many teachers are expected to qualify in each year up to 2007 with an (a) Bachelor of Education (BEd) and (b) Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) is shown in the table:
| | Year | BEd | PGCE | Total |
| Actual | 2002-03 | 586 | 1,500 | 2,086 |
| Projections* | 2003-04 | 690 | 1,740 | 2,430 |
| 2004-05 | 680 | 1,980 | 2,660 |
| 2005-06 | 740 | 2,650 | 3,390 |
| 2006-07 | 700 | 2,530 | 3,230 |
| | Total | 3,396 | 10,400 | 13,796 |
Note: *Rounded to the nearest 10.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of teacher training graduates (a) qualified from teacher training colleges in each year since 1995 and (b) it expects to qualify from teacher training colleges in each year up to 2007.
Answer
The table shows initial teacher education college graduates as a proportion of all initial teacher education graduates in Scotland, for each year from 1994-95 to 2001-02:
| | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999- 2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
| ITE Colleges/All ITE (%) | 53 | 58 | 57 | 57 | 35 | 19 | 19 | 0 |
| ITE Universities/All ITE (%) | 47 | 42 | 43 | 43 | 65 | 81 | 81 | 100 |
By 2001-02 all colleges of education had merged with a university and future projections are therefore not relevant.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to change the content and delivery of initial teacher education.
Answer
The current review ofinitial teacher education is addressing, among other things, both theseaspects. The review group is expected to report to me by the end of March 2004 orshortly thereafter.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how the salaries of graduates domiciled in Scotland compare with the salaries of graduates domiciled elsewhere in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the countries which will become the European Higher Education Area in 2010 and (c) other areas of the world.
Answer
(a) The average salary forgraduates who were full time employees and resident in Scotland was£29,000 in 2002. The average salary for graduates who were full time employeesand resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom was £32,000 in 2002.
(b)This information is not held centrally.
(c) This information is notheld centrally.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to achieve the targets of reducing class si'es to (a) 25 in P1, (b) 20 in S1 maths, (c) 20 in S2 maths, (d) 20 in S1 English and (e) 20 in S2 English.
Answer
The target date for the overarchingPartnership for a Better Scotland commitments to significantly increase teachernumbers to 53,000 and associated class size commitments is August 2007.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the contributions to the economy of communities outwith the major cities.
Answer
The Scottish Executive regularly considers the contribution to the economy of different communities in a number of ways using available statistics. One approach is to look at Gross Value Added (GVA). The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimates of GVA are published by local area, and are shown in the table below for 2001. From this it can be seen that 30% of total Scottish GVA was created in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The estimates are calculated on a workplace basis, i.e. income is allocated to an area based on where people work rather than where they live. Therefore areas with high levels of inward commuting will have higher values and so these figures do not fully explain the contributions to the economy from local areas.
GVA by NUTS3 Area, Scotland 2001 (£ million)
| Area | Total GVA | Percentage of Scottish total |
| Scotland | 69,179 | 100% |
| Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and North East Moray | 9,711 | 14.0% |
| Angus and Dundee City | 3,119 | 4.5% |
| Clackmannanshire and Fife | 4,003 | 5.8% |
| East Lothian and Midlothian | 1,528 | 2.2% |
| Scottish Borders | 994 | 1.4% |
| Edinburgh, City of | 9,954 | 14.4% |
| Falkirk | 1,760 | 2.5% |
| Perth and Kinross and Stirling | 2,673 | 3.9% |
| West Lothian | 2,410 | 3.5% |
| East and West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh and Lomond | 1,948 | 2.8% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1,521 | 2.2% |
| East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire Mainland | 2,480 | 3.6% |
| Glasgow City | 11,059 | 16.0% |
| Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire | 4,148 | 6.0% |
| North Lanarkshire | 3,215 | 4.6% |
| South Ayrshire | 1,434 | 2.1% |
| South Lanarkshire | 3,546 | 5.1% |
| Caithness and Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty | 806 | 1.2% |
| Inverness and Nairn and Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey | 1,170 | 1.7% |
| Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh and Argyll and the Islands | 952 | 1.4% |
| Eilean Siar (Western Isles) | 264 | 0.4% |
| Orkney Islands | 198 | 0.3% |
| Shetland Islands | 286 | 0.4% |
Source: ONS
Figures are shown in 2001 basic prices and are on a workplace basis.
Last year, Scottish Executive statisticians produced the publication Social Focus on Urban Rural Scotland, which analysed many aspects of life in Scotlandcomparing cities, urban and rural areas. This can be found on the Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00257-00.asp.In particular, the labour market chapter compares economic activity rates. Forexample, in 2002, 64% of economically active people lived outside the four maincities (compared with 63% of the working age population).
