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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-21585

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates the value of intra-UK exports from Scotland to be, broken down by local authority area.

This information is not available in the format requested.

Estimates of the value of intra-UK exports from Scotland are calculated from data collected via the Global Connections Survey. This survey does not collect data relating to the local authority area of the source of exports.

The most recent published statistics relating to intra-UK exports are taken from the Global Connections Survey for the year 2005. The value of intra-UK exports from Scotland in the year 2005 was estimated to be £41,515 million.

Question reference: S3W-21513

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many freight movements have taken place on the Leven to Thornton railway line in each of the last 15 years, broken down by (a) company, (b) type of freight, (c) date and (d) time.

Question reference: S3W-21514

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what it would cost to enable freight to be transported on the Leven to Thornton railway line.

Question reference: S3W-21584

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates the value of international exports from Scotland to be, broken down by local authority area.

This information is not available in the format requested.

Estimates of the value of international exports from Scotland are calculated from data collected via the Global Connections Survey. This survey does not collect data relating to the local authority area of the source of exports.

The most recent published statistics relating to international exports are taken from the Global Connections Survey for the year 2007. The value of international exports from Scotland in the year 2007 was estimated to be £20,630 million.

Question reference: S3W-21539

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-14475 by Fiona Hyslop on 26 June 2008, how many staff were employed in (a) colleges and (b) universities in 2007-08, broken down into academic and non-academic staff, and when new statistics will be available.

The number of staff at Scottish higher education institutions and colleges during the past four academic years broken down by employment function is shown in the following table.

Number of Staff at Scottish Institutions

Academic Year	HEIs		Colleges
Academic Year	Academic Staff	Non Academic Staff	Teaching Staff	Non Teaching Staff
2007-08	16,570	22,410	12,710	8,680
2006-07	16,360	21,935	12,695	8,890
2005-06	16,020	21,845	12,780	8,725
2004-05	15,310	21,690	13,170	8,445

Sources: HESA “ excluding atypical staff; Scottish Funding Council.

Notes:

Figures in this table have been rounded to the nearest five.

Zero, one and two have been rounded to zero.

Data for 2008-09 will become available in January 2010.

Question reference: S3W-21537

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses were built in Fife by registered social landlords or Fife Council in each of the last five years and how many are expected to be built in each of the next five years.

Question reference: S3W-21538

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses were built by registered social landlords or local authorities in each of the last five years and how many are expected to be built in each of the next five years, broken down by local authority area.

The number of houses completed by registered social landlords (RSLs) or local authorities in the last five years is shown in the following table. These exclude conversions of existing buildings and Off the Shelf purchases by RSLs.

There is no centrally held source of information on projections of new registered social landlord or local authority housing.

Table 1: Social sector New Build Housing Completions, 2003-04 to 2007-08

	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Scotland	3,368	4,024	4,698	3,237	4,125
Aberdeen City	35	47	128	11	100
Aberdeenshire	125	238	207	77	86
Angus	80	95	43	55	112
Argyll and Bute	81	47	85	69	127
Clackmannanshire	58	20	27	42	0
Dumfries and Galloway	128	81	141	63	276
Dundee City	145	328	340	0	116
East Ayrshire	0	6	10	30	80
East Dunbartonshire	4	7	142	0	26
East Lothian	30	145	35	51	80
East Renfrewshire	0	19	46	37	0
Edinburgh, City of	183	389	398	439	484
Eilean Siar	0	19	53	21	41
Falkirk	16	4	0	69	0
Fife	120	107	236	317	228
Glasgow City	1,239	802	951	821	773
Highland	139	131	145	265	375
Inverclyde	101	103	117	8	58
Midlothian	26	0	9	16	40
Moray	2	55	158	34	100
North Ayrshire	71	71	79	64	139
North Lanarkshire	144	123	442	82	65
Orkney	0	59	13	50	37
Perth and Kinross	153	150	112	68	124
Renfrewshire	78	165	278	98	115
Scottish Borders, The	41	79	50	46	69
Shetland	0	4	0	47	12
South Ayrshire	42	92	19	68	62
South Lanarkshire	111	285	136	154	134
Stirling	61	67	47	0	133
West Dunbartonshire	110	121	241	71	48
West Lothian	45	165	10	64	85

Sources:

Notes:

NB1 returns by local authorities to the Scottish Government, Communities Analytical Services (Housing Statistics).

Scottish Government Affordable Housing Investment Programme database.

Question reference: S3W-21498

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 27 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received requests for additional discretionary funds in the last 14 months from colleges, universities or the Scottish Funding Council and, if so, from whom and for how much.

The requests for additional Discretionary Funds in academic years 2007-08 and 2008-09 are shown in the following tables:

In-Year Re-Distribution 2007-08

Institution	Additional Amount Requested (£)
Adam Smith College	50,000.00
Cumbernauld College	20,000.00
Cardonald College	20,000.00
Napier University	40,000.00
Motherwell College	70,000.00
GCNS	5,000.00
James Watt College	90,000.00
University of Abertay Dundee	21,000.00
Stevenson college	43,207.00
Ayr College	10,000.00
Borders College	10,000.00
Central College of Commerce	100,000.00
Oatridge College	12,000.00
Angus College	40,000.00
Glasgow School of Art	10,000.00
Scottish Agricultural College	10,000.00
Forth Valley College	156,875.00
South Lanarkshire College	240,000.00
Coatbridge College	15,000.00
John Wheatley College	6,000.00
UHI	40,000.00
Dundee College	70,000.00
North Glasgow College	30,000.00

In-Year Re-Distribution 2008-09

Institution	Additional Amount Requested (£)
Ayr College	20,000
Barony College	3,000
Borders College	7,250
Cardonald College	30,500
Central College	89,000
Clydebank College	40,000
Cumbernauld College	23,000
Dumfries and Galloway College	8,000
Adam Smith College	35,000
James Watt College	120,630
Motherwell College	27,869
North Glasgow College	60,000
Oatridge College	15,000
Reid Kerr College	30,000
South Lanarkshire College	10,240
Stevenson College	34,748
Stow College	123,000
West Lothian College	26,000
University of Abertay Dundee	48,000
Glasgow Scholl of Art	15,000
St Andrews University	15,000
Stirling University	25,000
UHI	40,000
Glasgow Metropolitan College	23,398
Anniesland College	10,000
Elmwood College	2,865
Total	882,500

Question reference: S3W-21493

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 27 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of any reallocations of discretionary funds that it has made for colleges or universities in 2008-09.

The in-year re-allocation of Higher Education Discretionary Funds for 2008-09 was as follows:

Institution	Additional Amount Allocated
Ayr College	20,000
Barony College	3,000
Borders College	7,250
Cardonald College	23,272.99
Central College	23,272.99
Clydebank College	23,272.99
Cumbernauld College	23,000
Dumfries and Galloway College	8,000
Adam Smith College	23,272.99
James Watt College	23,272.99
Motherwell College	23,272.99
North Glasgow College	23,272.99
Oatridge College	15,000
Reid Kerr College	23,272.99
South Lanarkshire College	10,240
Stevenson College	23,272.99
Stow College	23,272.99
West Lothian College	23,272.99
University of Abertay Dundee	23,272.99
Glasgow Scholl of Art	15,000
St Andrews University	15,000
Stirling University	23,272.99
UHI	23,272.99
Glasgow Metropolitan College	23,272.99
Anniesland College	10,000
Elmwood College	2,865
Total	478,449.85

Question reference: S3W-21499

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 27 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how much discretionary funding has been provided to higher education and further education institutions in the 2008-09 academic year, broken down by type and institution.

The full list of allocations for the Higher Education Discretionary Funds, provided to colleges and universities, is available on the Student Award Agency for Scotland (SAAS) website at http://www.saas.gov.uk/student_support/other_funding.htm#discretionary.

In addition to this, information on which institutions have received further funds as part of the in-year re-distribution process can be found in the answer to question S3W-21493 on 6 March 2009. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Information on discretionary fund allocations to colleges for further education students is not held by the Scottish Government and can be obtained from the Scottish Funding Council.