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Skills Development Scotland report that annual spend on the Rural Supplement has been as follows:

• 2017-18: £939,750
• 2018-19: £1,034,750
• 2019-20 (as at 10 February 2020): £533,000
  

For 2017-18 and 2018-19 SDS paid a lump sum to training providers, based on a list of eligible apprentices. Consequently further breakdown is not available. Following a review with key stakeholders, eligibility criteria has been refined and is now based on the employer postcode. For 2019-20 the breakdown of spend by local authority and framework is provided in the following tables.

The following table provides a breakdown of Flexible Workforce Development Fund for the 2017-18 (£6.1m) and 2018-19 (£9.6m) Academic Years. Full information on the 2019-20 Academic Year, which is still in progress, is not available at this point.

Details are as follows:

The Scottish Government has no responsibility for the UK Government’s Apprenticeship Levy which is a tax on employers. HMRC hold data on what is raised by the Levy.

The Scottish Government has no responsibility for the UK Government’s Apprenticeship Levy which is a tax on employers. HMRC hold data on what is raised by the Levy.

The following table sets out Scottish Government funding for Apprenticeships in the years 2017-18 and 2018-19. Figures for 2019-20 will be available at the end of the financial year.

For 2007-08 to 2014-15, information for those targets that were due for delivery in each year at a national level and NHS Board level is available at the UK Web Archive at the link below. Over this period, NHS Boards were also expected to deliver, on an ongoing basis, targets that been due for delivery in previous years. Consideration of whether these targets had been delivered by NHS Boards were able to be made each time data was updated in the Scotland Performs NHSScotland web pages. This was a ‘live’ system and these web pages have not been archived.

https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20180707034706/
http://www.gov.scot/About/Performance/scotPerforms/NHSScotland
performance/HEATstandards

National information showing trend performance against the LDP Standards for 2015-16 onwards, and NHS Board level information for the latest period is presented in the LDP Standard pages on the current Scottish Government website. Also included in these pages are links to the statistical publications including additional data.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/nhsscotland-performance-against-ldp-standards/pages/introduction/

 As apprentices are recruited by their employer it is not possible to record information on the number of unsuccessful applicants for modern apprenticeships.

NHS Boards’ spending on the independent sector represents 0.6% of the overall health resource budget, compared with 7.3% in England. Further detail is available in the annual accounts that are published online by each NHS Board.

It would be misleading to provide per capita funding from General Revenue Grant (GRG) alone as the Scottish Government guarantees the combined formula share of each local authorities GRG plus Non-Domestic Rates Income (NDRI) as part of the overall funding package.

The total GRG and NDRI per capita funding by local authority since 2007-08 is set out in a document that has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre, Bib number 61383.

It should be noted that due to the removal of Police and Fire services from the Local government settlement in 2013-14, figures before and after this period are not comparable.

It should also be noted that significant additional funding for local government core services provided through specific grants is also not included in this analysis.

We expect all NHS Boards to make best use of resources to deliver high quality services for the communities for which they are responsible. NHS Boards are able to set in place service level agreements with other NHS Bodies but can only procure services that comply with the procurement guidance set out by NHS National Procurement. This information is therefore held at an individual Board level.

The Scottish Government provided local authorities with £10.7 billion through the local government settlement in 2018-19, a real terms increase in both revenue and capital funding. Taken together with the flexibility to increase council tax the total funding delivered an additional £342 million or 3.3 per cent to support vital local services.

(a) - Employment levels in Scottish local government rose by 7,200 or 2.9 per cent to 252,000 in March 2019.

(b) - The vast majority of funding is provided to local authorities by means of a block grant. It is the responsibility of individual local authorities to manage their own budgets and to allocate the total financial resources available on the basis of local needs and priorities. However the overall settlement provided local government with an additional £342 million in 2018-19 to invest in essential public services.

(c) - The level of council tax increase was capped at 3 per cent in 2018-19 to protect household incomes and preserve the financial accountability of local government whilst generating an additional £77 million for investment in vital public services.

(d) - Local authorities must use their resources as efficiently as possible and deliver services effectively to ensure taxpayers get the best possible value. Decisions on the use of reserves are rightly the responsibility of individual councils to take where it is prudent and sustainable to do so.