Questions and answers

Question reference: S5W-22884

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 14 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has provided to the University of West Scotland in each of the last 10 years.

The Scottish Government have provided a total of £719,764,942 in funding to the University of West of Scotland over a 10 year period between 2008-09 to 2018-19. This funding includes, for example, grants for teaching, research, access and capital maintenance.

Further breakdown by year is provided in the following table;

Scottish Government Funding 2008-09 -2018-19

Year	Total (£)
2008-09	65,430,999
2009-10	65,904,223
2010-11	63,886,592
2011-12	58,375,486
2012-13	63,858,782
2013-14	65,881,988
2014-15	67,748,592
2015-16	67,362,326
2016-17	66,012,193
2017-18	66,247,451
2018-19	69,056,310

Source: Scottish Funding Council - May 2019

Question reference: S5W-22878

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 14 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much it spent on baby boxes up until 17 March 2019.

Question reference: S5W-22882

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 14 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many instances of racially motivated assaults have been reported in (a) North Ayrshire, (b) Inverclyde and (c) Scotland in each of the last 10 years.

In February 2019, the Scottish Government published a report entitled “Developing information on hate crime recorded by the police in Scotland”. This report includes the number the hate crimes that were aggravated by the five hate strands (race, religion, sexual orientation, disability and transgender identity).

Table 1 includes additional analysis of the dataset used to produce the report ‘Developing Information on Hate Crime Recorded by the Police in Scotland’ and shows the number of assaults, including Attempted murder, Serious assault and Common assaults, recorded by the police with a race aggravator for the past four years for North Ayrshire, Inverclyde and Scotland. Further information is available at the following link: https://www.gov.scot/publications/developing-information-hate-crime-recorded-police-scotland/ .

The Scottish Government previously published information on Racist Incidents Recorded by the Police, derived from a different source. Table 2 includes further analysis of this dataset and shows the number of assaults, including Attempted murder, Serious assault and Common assaults, recorded by Police Scotland as part of racist incidents for the years 2008-10 to 2013-14 for North Ayrshire, Inverclyde and Scotland. Further information is available at the following link: https://www.gov.scot/publications/racist-incidents-recorded-police-scotland-2013-14/ .

The tables relate to crimes which have been perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated (wholly or partly) by malice and ill-will towards a social group based on race. A person does not need to be a member of a social group to be the victim of a hate crime. The law states that the identity of the victim is irrelevant as to whether something is a hate crime or not; the motivation of the perpetrator is the key factor in defining a hate crime. Furthermore, this will not include any incidents which did not include the committing of a crime or racially aggravated assaults that were not reported to the police.

It is important to note that the tables presented here are not directly comparable as they are derived from different sources. Table 1 is based on information taken from Police Scotland’s Interim Vulnerable Persons Database (IVPD), an incident-based database which was introduced in 2013, and became a national system in 2014, whereas Table 2 is based on information previously extracted annually from individual Police Scotland crime management systems.

Table 1. Number of assaults 1 recorded by the police, with a race aggravator 2 , 2014-15 to 2017-18
	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18
North Ayrshire	13	*	*	7
Inverclyde	8	*	*	-
Scotland	646	573	664	685
Source: Additional analysis of the extract of data from the Interim Vulnerable Persons Database (IVPD) used to produce the report ‘Developing Information on Hate Crime Recorded by the Police in Scotland’

Table 2. Number of assaults 1 recorded by the police as part of racist incidents, 2014-15 to 2017-18
	2008-10	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14
North Ayrshire	16	25	10	18	7	9
Inverclyde	8	*	*	10	*	*
Scotland	728	723	733	754	593	628
Source: Additional analysis of the extract of data used to produce the report ‘Racist incidents recorded by the police in Scotland, 2013-14’

1 Includes Attempted Murder, Serious assault and Common assault
2 Will also include some crimes where there may have been multiple aggravators for example if a crime was aggravated by race and religion.
*' indicates a value of less than five.
-' indicates a value of zero.

Question reference: S5T-01647

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 May 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking in response to the recent Mental Health Foundation report, which suggests that one third of adults in Scotland are anxious about their body image.

Question reference: S5W-22877

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much is spent per person on (a) health, (b) education, (c) transport, (d) policing, public order and safety and (e) housing and community amenities in (i) North Ayrshire, (ii) Inverclyde and (iii) Scotland.

Figures for Scotland as a whole are available from HM Treasury’s ‘Country and Regional Analysis: 2018’. Identifiable public expenditure per person in 2017-18 on (a) health and social care, (b) education and training, (c) transport, (d) public order and safety (including policing) and (e) housing and community amenities in Scotland was as follows.

Spend per person on (a) health, (b) education, (c) transport, (d) public order and safety (including policing) and (e) housing and community amenities (£ per person, 2017-18)

	Scotland
Health and social care	£2,353
Education and training	£1,548
Transport	£667
Public order and safety (including policing)	£497
Housing and community amenities	£365

Source: HM Treasury, Country and Regional Analysis (CRA), 2017-18

Equivalent figures for Scottish local authority areas are not available.

Final, audited figures on local authority expenditure by service is available in the Scottish Local Government Finance Statistics publication, available at https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Local-Government-Finance/PubScottishLGFStats . It should be noted that these figures only relate to the expenditure by each local authority and exclude any expenditure on these services by central government.

Question reference: S5W-22879

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when it expects the completion of ferry vessels 801 and 802.

Question reference: S5W-22875

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much is spent per person on (a) agriculture, (b) fisheries and (c) forestry in (i) North Ayrshire, (ii) Inverclyde and (iii) Scotland.

Figures for Scotland as a whole are available from HM Treasury’s ‘Country and Regional Analysis: 2018’. Identifiable public expenditure per person in 2017-18 on agriculture, fisheries and food and forestry in Scotland was as follows.

Spend per person on (a) agriculture, fisheries and food and (b) forestry (£ per person, 2017-18)

	Scotland
Agriculture, fisheries and food	£154
Forestry	£14

Source: HM Treasury, Country and Regional Analyses (CRA), 2017-18

The data are not disaggregated by agriculture, fisheries and food sectors individually. Equivalent figures for Scottish local authority areas are not available.

Question reference: S5W-22876

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much is spent per person on environmental protection in (a) North Ayrshire, (b) Inverclyde and (c) Scotland.

Figures for Scotland as a whole are available from HM Treasury’s ‘Country and Regional Analysis: 2018’. Identifiable public expenditure per person in 2017-18 on environmental protection in Scotland was as follows.

Spend per person on environmental protection (£ per person, 2017-18)

	Scotland
Environmental protection	£233

Source: HM Treasury, Country and Regional Analysis (CRA), 2017-18

Equivalent figures for Scottish local authority areas are not available.

Final, audited figures on local authority expenditure by service is available in the Scottish Local Government Finance Statistics publication, available at https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Local-Government-Finance/PubScottishLGFStats . It should be noted that these figures only relate to the expenditure by each local authority and exclude any expenditure on these services by central government.

Question reference: S5W-22883

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many teachers have been recruited in each of the last 10 years.

The Scottish Government does not collect data specifically on teacher recruitment. Information is collected and published on teacher numbers through the annual school staff census, this is available on the Scottish Government website at:

https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/teachcenssuppdata

As part of the school staff census information is collected on the number of probationers and the number of teachers in employment in publicly funded schools in the year following their probation (post-probationers). Teachers can also be recruited having qualified in other countries, from the private sector and from those that had previously left teaching.

Question reference: S5W-22874

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much is spent per person on enterprise and economic development in (a) North Ayrshire, (b) Inverclyde and (c) Scotland.

Since 2007, the Scottish Government, its enterprise and skills agencies and local authorities have invested significant resources to enable Scotland's economy to thrive and flourish. The specific, extrapolated information requested is not held centrally. Given the contributory funding support provided across a wide range of policy areas, it is not possible to isolate a precise enterprise and economic development element in order to provide the information requested.

Supporting enterprise and economic development is key to the Scottish Government’s mission to drive inclusive economic growth. Specific investments, such as the £1.7 billion committed to City Region and Regional Growth Deals and associated investments, are working in tandem with complementary investment in other areas, including housing, health, education and skills, transport, tourism and culture to secure inclusive growth.

In relation to the Growth Deal programme, North Ayrshire and Inverclyde will benefit from significant levels of fresh investment from the Scottish Government through the Ayrshire Growth Deal and the Glasgow City Region Deal, accounting for a combined investment commitment of £603 million over the next 10-20 years. This catalyst investment will help to realise tangible benefits for people and communities in the form of new jobs and wider economic opportunities.

2016/17	£189,929.71
2017/18	£8,456,368.48
2018/19 - up to 17 March 2019	£6,493,111.71

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