- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional funding has been provided to ensure that continuing students do not face reduced financial support following changes to the means test for higher education students from the 2008-09 academic year; when such funding will be provided and how it will be distributed.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-10214 on 5 March 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether students' earned income will be assessed for providing support for (a) further and (b) higher education in the 2008-09 academic year and, if so, over what threshold.
Answer
The means test project paper which provides full details of the students'' income to be taken into account in higher education from 2008-09. This document has been published on the Scottish Government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Education/Funding-Support-Grants/FFL/PMB/Completed.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students did not take out loans to pay for the graduate endowment in each of the last three academic years, broken down by household income.
Answer
The following table shows the number of students who have chosen to pay their full graduate endowment in cash in each of the last three years.
Decided to Pay Graduate Endowment in Full by Cash
| April 2005 Liability | April 2006 Liability | April 2007 Liability | Total |
| 255 | 2,690 | 3,565 | 6,515 |
Data source: Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) as at 30 April 2008.
Figures have been rounded to the nearest five.
The figures shown in the table are provisional and subject to change as cases are processed. They do not include students who were liable for the graduate endowment as of April 2007 or earlier but have had their liability deferred whilst they undertake postgraduate study. Those who are currently in debt recovery, who have had their debt written off or who have chosen to pay part in cash part by loan are also excluded.
Graduates who choose to pay their graduate endowment in full by cash are not required to give details of their household income therefore it is not possible to provide an income breakdown of the table.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will spend any savings from changes to the means test from the 2008-09 academic year for higher education students.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-10210 on
5 March 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average earnings are of working students (a) exempt and (b) not exempt from council tax.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what extra funding will be provided for any increase in the use of community sentence orders over the next three years, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The report of the review of community penalties published last November set out a plan of action, which is designed to lead to greater and improved use of community sentences. Work is in progress to take forward the report. The following additional sums have been set aside to implement the report''s recommendations:
| 2008-09 | £2.0 million |
| 2009-10 | £3.5 million |
| 2010-11 | £3.5 million |
The majority of the £2 million available this financial year is reflected in the current 2008-09 financial allocations for community justice authorities. The latter will be informed of financial allocations for subsequent years at the appropriate stage. Community justice authorities are responsible for disbursement of available funding to the constituent local authorities within their areas.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has commissioned or will commission any independent research into the welfare impacts of snaring, as recommended in 2005 in the Report of the Independent Working Group on Snares.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12074 on 1 May 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of research recently commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to determine the extent of use and humaneness of snares in England and Wales and whether it will ensure that such research is replicated for Scotland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12074 on 1 May 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 6 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average earned income is of a student per financial year.
Answer
The latest data on average earned term time income of full-time students relates to the academic year 2004-05. The amounts were £1,693 for higher education students and £948 for further education students. The calculation includes students who do not work.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 6 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students earned over £5,225 in the 2007-08 financial year.
Answer
The exact number of students who earn over £5,225 in the financial year 2007-08 is not held centrally.
However information from the 2004-05 students'' income, expenditure and debt survey, http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Lifelong-learning/SIES, shows that the average Scottish full-time student earned £1,693 during term time and only 25% earned amounts greater than £2,848. Full-time further education students earned less, £948 on average, with 25% earning amounts greater than £1,085.
In combination these figures support the conclusion that the vast majority of students earn less than £5,225.
