1. The Committee will consider whether to take item 2 in ... · ED/01/26/A Education, Culture and Sport Committee 26th Meeting, 2001 Tuesday 23 October 2001 The Committee will meet

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Education, Culture and Sport Committee

26th Meeting, 2001

Tuesday 23 October 2001

The Committee will meet at 1.30 pm in Committee Room 1

1. Items in private: The Committee will consider whether to take item 2 in private.

2. Scottish Ballet Inquiry: The Committee will consider a draft report.

3. Subordinate Legislation: The Committee will consider the following draftinstrument under negative procedure—

The Holyrood Park Amendment Regulations 2001 (Draft)

4. Budget Process 2002-03: The Committee will take evidence from—

Jack McConnell MSP (Minister for Education, Europe and ExternalAffairs).

5. School Education (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will takeevidence on the general principles of the Bill at Stage 1 from—

Jack McConnell MSP (Minister for Education, Europe and ExternalAffairs)

COSLA.

6. Budget Process 2002-03: The Committee will take evidence from—

Allan Wilson MSP (Deputy Minister for Sport, the Arts and Culture).

The following papers will be tabled at the meeting—

Draft Report on Scottish Ballet Inquiry ED/01/26/1 (P)(Private Paper)

The Holyrood Park Amendment Regulations 2001 (Draft) ED/01/26/2

SPICE Research Note on Budget Process 2002-03 ED/01/26/3(Education and Children)

Clerk note on the School Education (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill ED/01/26/4

SPICE Research Note on Budget Process 2002-03 ED/01/26/5(Sport and Culture)

Martin VerityClerk to the Committee

Room 2.7 Committee ChambersExt. 85204

Email: [email protected]

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EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORT COMMITTEE

23 October 2001

Scottish Statutory Instruments – The Holyrood Park Amendment Regulations2001 (Draft)

1. The Holyrood Park Amendment Regulations 2001 (Draft) were laid on 12September 2001, and are subject to negative resolution procedure. Theinstrument is laid in draft and cannot be made if the draft is disapproved of within40 days, excluding the recess period. The regulations will come into force on 6November 2001 unless the draft is disapproved of by the Parliament by resolutionby 2 November 2001.

2. The purpose of the Regulations is to amend the Holyrood Park Regulations 1971which specifically ban commercial vehicles and the exhibition of advertisingmaterial in the Park. The amendments would permit commercial vehicles to use aspecified route through the Park as an alternative to Holyrood Road which isscheduled for partial closure, and would permit the display of advertising materialon such commercial vehicles. Further details are contained in the ExplanatoryNote and Executive Note attached to the draft instrument.

3. The Education, Culture and Sport Committee is the lead committee for this draftinstrument, and should report to the Parliament by 29 October 2001. There areno other committees to report to this Committee. The Minister responsible is MrJack McConnell, Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs.

4. The Subordinate Legislation Committee reported on this draft instrument in its32nd Report, 2001, (SP Paper 389) and determined that the attention of theParliament need not be drawn to this instrument.

5. A copy of the draft instrument, an Explanatory Note which is not part of theRegulations and an Executive Note are attached.

6. The Committee is invited to consider whether it wishes to make anyrecommendation in relation to the draft instrument. The Regulations are notsubject to amendment.

7. A procedural note is attached for information.


Procedural Note

Standing Orders

1. The procedures for dealing with Scottish Statutory Instruments (SSIs) arecovered by Chapter 10 of Standing Orders. SSIs are laid by being lodged withthe chamber clerks, and are published in the Business Bulletin. They arereferred to the Subordinate Legislation Committee, the appropriate subjectcommittee (the ‘lead committee’) and, where relevant, any other committee.

SSIs subject to a motion that a draft instrument be not made or submitted

2. Under Rule 10.5 where an SSI may be made without the approval of theParliament, it comes into force on a specified date unless, no later than 40 daysafter the draft instrument is laid any MSP by motion proposes to the leadcommittee that the committee recommend that the instrument be not made (or, inthe case of a draft Order in Council, be not submitted to Her Majesty in Council).Such motions are lodged with the chamber clerks.

3. The lead committee debates such a motion for no more than 90 minutes.

4. The lead committee reports to the Parliament, setting out its recommendations. Ifit recommends that the instrument is not made (or be not submitted to HerMajesty in Council), the Bureau will propose to the Parliament a motion to thiseffect

5. All the above must take place within 40 days of the instrument being laid,excluding recesses of more than 4 days.

6. To date, no motion that the draft instrument should not be made has been lodgedwith the chamber clerks.

Proceedings in the committee

7. The committee is invited to consider the draft instrument. At the conclusion of thediscussion the convener will ask whether the committee wishes to make anyrecommendation in its report to the Parliament.

providing research and information services to the Scottish Parliament

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ED/01/26/3:Research Note produced for theEducation, Culture and SportCommittee

16 October 2001

THE SCOTTISH BUDGET: EDUCATION AND CHILDRENALAN REHFISCH

The Scottish Executive published the Draft Scottish Budget on 20 September2001. This Research Note has been prepared to assist the Education, Cultureand Sport Committee in its scrutiny of the Draft Scottish Budget. It includes acomparison between the Education and Children objectives, targets and budgetallocations in the Draft Scottish Budget with those outlined in the AnnualExpenditure Report, published by the Scottish Executive on 30 March 2001. Italso highlights where changes have been made and the reasons provided by theExecutive for such changes.


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THE SCOTTISH BUDGET

The following table provides an overview of Scottish Executive stage one 2002-2003 budget allocations, as published in the Annual Expenditure Report, andcontrasts these with the figures set out in the Draft Scottish Budget. TheEducation and Children budget is highlighted for ease of comparison with otherbudget headings.

Table 1: The Scottish Budget

Cash totals (£m’s) % share of total budget

AER Draft +/- AER Draft +/-

Central Governmentsupport for LocalAuthorities

6,937 6955 18 33.0 32.9 -0.1

Children and CentralGovernment Education

337 354 17 1.6 1.7 0.1

Community Care 9 9 0 0.0 0.0 0.0Crown Office 60 62 2 0.3 0.3 0.0Enterprise and LifelongLearning

2,200 2,187 -13 10.5 10.4 -0.1

Environment 540 555 15 2.6 2.6 0.1EU Structural Funds 198 198 0 0.9 0.9 0.0Food Standards agency 5 5 0 0.0 0.0 0.0Forestry 84 86 2 0.4 0.4 0.0Health 6,562 6,666 104 31.2 31.6 0.3Justice 702 698 -4 3.3 3.3 0.0Modernising GovernmentFund

16 57 41 0.1 0.3 0.2

Rural Affairs 630 624 -6 3.0 3.0 0.0Scottish ExecutiveAdministration

214 214 0 1.0 1.0 0.0

Scottish ExecutiveAssociated Departments

24 19 -5 0.1 0.1 0.0

Scottish Public PensionsAgency

279 279 0 1.3 1.3 0.0

Social Justice 766 748 -18 3.7 3.5 -0.1Sport and Culture 151 152 1 0.7 0.7 0.0Transport 1,034 1,029 -5 4.9 4.9 0.0Scottish Parliament &Audit Scotland

112 145 33 0.5 0.7 0.2

DEL RESERVE 53 20 -33 0.3 0.1 -0.2AME RESERVE 63 64 1 0.3 0.3 0.0

Total 21,020 21,126 106 100.0 100.0 0.0


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Education and Children

The Scottish Executive has made modest changes to its spending plans forEducation and Children in the Draft Scottish Budget, compared with those outlinedin the Annual Expenditure Report. The main change being the introduction of adistinct “Social Work Training” heading. Funds allocated under this heading willbe used to pay for The Scottish Social Services Council established under theRegulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001. This along with all other changes, arehighlighted in Table 2 below and in 2000-2001 real terms in Table 3.

Table 2: AER and Draft Scottish Budget Education and Children BudgetFigures (£m’s)

2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004Cash Terms

AER Draft +/- AER Draft +/- AER Draft +/-

Schools 109.1 131 +21.9 137.4 141 +3.6 149.2 144 -5.2Children and YoungPeople

176.1 172 -4.1 199.8 201 +1.2 207.8 200 -7.8

Social Work Training *** 12 +12 *** 13 +13 *** 15 +15

Total 285.2 315 +29.8 337.2 355 +17.8 357.0 359 +2Specific Grant 196.6 195 -1.6 201.0 192 -9 231.7 225 -6.7

Table 3: Annual Expenditure Report and Draft Scottish Budget Educationand Children figures compared in real terms at 2000-2001 prices using HMTreasury Deflator Figures (£m’s)

2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004Real Terms


Schools 106.4 127.8 +21.4 130.8 134.2 +3.4 138.5 133.7 -4.8Children and YoungPeople

171.8 167.8 -4.0 190.2 191.3 +1.1 193.0 185.7 -7.2

Social Work Training *** 11.7 +11.7 *** 12.4 +12.4 *** 13.9 +13.9

Total 278.2 307.3 +29.1 321.0 337.9 +16.9 331.5 333.4 +1.9Specific Grant 191.8 190.2 -1.6 191.3 182.7 -8.6 215.2 208.9 -6.2

Due to changes in budget headings it is necessary to be cautious whenconsidering these level 1 figures. The following sections examine, in more detail,the four level two budget headings and associated policies.


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SCHOOLS

The Annual Expenditure Report broke the “Schools“ budget down under thefollowing level three headings:

• Schools, standards and improvements• Curriculum development, IT, international services and administration• Pupil Support• HM Inspectorate

However, the Draft Scottish Budget breaks the “schools” budget down under thefollowing headings:

� Teachers and Schools� Qualifications, Assessment and Curriculum� New Educational Developments� Pupil support and inclusion� HM Inspectorate

This means the level three “Schools” budget figures are not directly comparable.The Scottish Executive funds two non-departmental public bodies from the“Schools” budget, i.e. the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and Learningand Teaching Scotland (LTS). In addition to funding these bodies the DraftScottish Budget identifies the following spending commitments:

Teachers and schools, all figures relate to financial year 2001-2002.

The following programmes are funded under this budget heading:

Initial Teacher education and recruitment: £1.3m was allocated to funda two-phase review of teacher education and a national teacherrecruitment programme.

Continuous Professional Development: £1.1m was allocated to developa national CPD framework.

School Buildings: £10m was allocated to develop strategic support forimmediate and long-term improvements to Scotland’s school buildings.

The above programmes account for £12.4m allocated under the “Teachers andschools” budget heading for financial year 2001-2002. The Draft Scottish Budgetallocates £54.6m to this heading, this means £42.2m of the “Teachers andSchools” budget have not been attributed to specific programmes.


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Qualifications, Assessment and Curriculum, all figures relate to financialyear 2001-2002


Scottish Qualifications Authority: An additional £11m was allocated foradditional staff and IT equipment.

New National Qualifications: £5.4m was allocated

Modern Languages: £4.3m was allocated for the development of modernlanguage teaching.

Curriculum Development Programme: £0.3m allocated to developvarious teaching materials.

Progress File: £0.3m allocated to develop progress files for secondary,community and further education students.

Assessment of Achievement Programme: £0.2m allocated for a surveyof achievement in P4, P7 and S2 in English, maths and science.

5-14 Assessment: £0.9m allocated to develop a catalogue of NationalTest Units in reading, writing and maths.

The above programmes account for £22.4m allocated under the “Qualifications,Curriculum and Assessment” heading for financial year 2001-2002. The DraftScottish Budget states that £33.3m will be allocated under this heading, meaning£10.9m is unaccounted for in the more detailed figures.

New educational development, all figures relate to financial year 2001-2002:


Staff development and guidance for teachers and school managers:£4.2m allocated to support various IT programmes.

Development of the National Grid for Learning digital content andweb services: £3.7m allocated to support the development of the nationalgrid for learning.

School improvement framework: £1.2m allocated to support the roll outof the planning framework set out in the Standards in Scotland’s Schoolsetc. Act 2000.

ICT learning centres: £1.0m allocated to widen access to ICT facilities inschools.


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Schools broadband: £10.0m allocated to improve school’s access tobroadband connections

Future learning and teaching pilots: £1.5m allocated to allow localauthorities to create learning and teaching environments for the future.

£21.6m has been allocated to the above programmes under the “New educationaldevelopment” budget heading, this is slightly greater than the total level threebudget allocation of £21.5m. The extra £0.1m is probably accounted for byrounding used in calculating the figures.

Pupil support and inclusion, all figures relate to financial year 2001-2002:


New community schools pilots: £12m allocated to support 62 localauthority pilot projects. EX1

Health Education: £0.5m allocated to support education authorities inproviding a range of health education.

Drugs Education: £1.0m allocated to implement the school drug safetyteam recommendations and assist education authorities in providing drugeducation.

Equal opportunities, bullying, pupil welfare and school ethos: £1.0mallocated to allow education authorities to develop policies in these areas.

Grant aided schools: £6m allocated towards the cost of running grant-aided schools.

Special educational needs forum: £0.5m allocated to fund the work ofthe Special Educational Needs Forum.

Innovation grants programme: £2.0m allocated to fund innovativevoluntary sector programmes for those with special educational needs.

Inclusion programme: £13.0m allocated to assist education authorities toteach children with special educational needs in mainstream schools. EX

Alternatives to exclusion: £10.0m allocated to support the developmentof alternatives to exclusion. EX

1 All programmes marked EX are funded by Excellence Funds Specific Grant and not the “Pupil supportand inclusion budget”, although the Executive have included them under this heading in the DraftScottish Budget.


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Study support: £10.0m allocated to support the provision of out of schoollearning. EX

Education action plans: £5.0m allocated to support measures to raise thestandards in schools facing major challenges. EX

Support for parents: £5.0m allocated to support measures to encourageparent’s involvement in their children’s education. EX

The above programmes account for some £66m, of which £55m has beenallocated under the “Excellence Fund Specific Grant”. The remainingprogrammes account for £11m from a total “Pupil support and inclusion“ budgetallocation of £13.9m. This leaves a balance of £2.9m still to be allocated tospecific programmes.

HM Inspectorate

The only directly comparable figures between the Annual Expenditure Report andthe Draft Scottish Budget under the “Schools” heading are those for HMInspectorate, contrasted below:

2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004


HM Inspectorate 4.0 7.6 +3.6 4.0 7.6 +3.6 4.0 7.6 +3.6

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

The Annual Expenditure Report broke the level two “Children and Young People”budget figures down under the following headings:

• Pre-school and childcare• Young people and looked after children

These in the Draft Scottish Budget, which identified level three spending under the“children and young people” budget using the following headings:

• Early education and childcare• Children and families• Young people and looked after children• Information, analysis and communication

A more detailed analysis of the figures in the Draft Scottish Budget follows:


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Early education and childcare, all figures relate to financial year 2001-2002:


Special grant for pre-school education: £137.0m allocated to expandfree pre-school provision for all 3 and 4 year old children whose parentswish it.

Other early education and childcare: £5.0m allocated to local authoritiesfor the development of the childcare workforce and facilities.

The above allocations account for £142m of the £143.8m early education andchildcare budget, leaving a balance of £1.8m still to be allocated in financial year2001-2002.

Children and families, all figures relate to financial year 2001-2002:

This is an entirely new budget heading introduced in the Draft Scottish Budget.The Annual Expenditure Report contained a reference to the Family Fund Trustunder the “Children and Young People” level 2 heading, however this did notinclude any specific figures.

The following programmes are funded under this heading:

Family Fund Trust: £2.2m allocated to a charitable trust to make grants tofamilies with severely disabled children, allowing them to care for the childin their home.

The £2.2m allocated to the family fund trust accounts for the full budget allocationunder the “Children and families” budget heading.

Young people and looked after children, all figures relate to financial year2001-2002:

Figures published in the Annual Expenditure Report under this heading are notdirectly comparable with those in the Draft Scottish Budget. The additional levelthree budget headings in the Draft Scottish Budget, Children & Families andInformation, Analysis and Communication include elements of the Young Peopleand Looked After Children budget as described in the Annual Expenditure Report.

The Executive funds the Scottish Children’s Reporters Administration (SCRA) andCommunity Learning Scotland (CLS) under this heading. The SCRA will receive£15.7m in 2001-2002 while CLS will receive £0.2m in the same period.


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Secure accommodation: £1.6m allocated to for capital programmes.

Support for community education and training: £2.73m allocated tofund Community Learning Scotland, support national youth voluntaryorganisations and award grants to voluntary groups working with drugs andyoung people.

Section 10 Grants: £0.806m allocated to support the headquarterfunctions of national youth voluntary organisations. Assist organisations todevelop policies on fostering and adoption and other organisations toprovide through care and advocacy for children.

Invest to save young offenders: £0.153m allocated in a direct grant toBarnardo’s to run the “Matrix” programme for early intervention with youngoffenders.

The above programmes account for £5.289m of a total “Young People and lookedafter children” budget of £23.2m. When added to the budgets of SCRA and CLS£21.189m of the budget is accounted for, leaving £2.011m unallocated.

Information, Analysis and Communication, all figures relate to financial year2001-2002

This is an entirely new budget heading introduced in the Draft Scottish Budget.Spending on research and international projects were included under the“Schools” budget heading in the Annual Expenditure Report, although no figuresfor 2001-2002 were included.

The Scottish Executive funds the Scottish Council for Research in Education(SCRE) under this budget heading. £0.34m has been allocated to SCRE in 2001-2002, plus £0.2m to cover restructuring costs.


Research: £1.3m allocated to fund social research on issues relating tochildren and young people, education, social work, arts, sport and culture

International Education: £0.5m was allocated to cover the costs of theCentral Bureau of International Education that manages a range ofinternational educational schemes.

£2.1m has been allocated to the above programmes from a total Information,Analysis and Communications budget of £2.2m. The difference of £0.1m may bedue to rounding of figures. However, the funding for SCRE does not seem to beincluded under this or any other budget heading.


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SOCIAL WORK SERVICE TRAINING

This is an entirely new budget heading introduced in the Draft Scottish Budget.Social work training was included under the Children and Young People headingin the Annual Expenditure Report. However, the regime governing social worktraining has been radically altered since the publication of the Annual ExpenditureReport by the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001, which introduced theScottish Social Services Council. The Annual Expenditure Report allocated£4.8m to social work training in 2001-2002 while the Draft Scottish Budgetallocates some £12m for the same period. This is broken down as below:

Scottish Social Services Council: £3.7mResearch Budget: £0.8mTraining: £7.5m

SPECIFIC GRANTS

The following table compares the “Specific Grant” budget figures published in theAnnual Expenditure Report with those in the Draft Scottish Budget.

2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004


Excellence Fund 186.2 183.7 -2.5 187.7 178.2 -9.5 218.25 211.3 -6.95Special EducationalNeeds

5.4 5.9 +0.5 8.4 8.9 +0.5 8.4 8.9 +0.5

Gaelic in Education 2.8 2.8 0 2.8 2.8 0 2.8 2.8 0Social Work Services 2.2 2.2 0 2.2 2.2 0 2.2 2.2 0

Total 196.6 194.6 -2 201.1 192.1 -9 231.65 225.2 -6.45

Policies relating to specific grants in the Draft Scottish Budget remain unchangedfrom those in the Annual Expenditure Report and can be summarised as follows:

Excellence Fund : The Excellence fund consists of two separate programmes,i.e. core and special funding. Projects covered under these headings are:

Core: alternatives to exclusion, study support, early intervention,supporting parents, classrooms assistants, reducing class sizes, supportfor teachers, Higher Still, National Grid for Learning, social inclusion

Special: New Community Schools, Education Action Plans and SpecialistProvision

From these ten core and three special budget headings the Executive only makesmention of the following six headings in the Draft Scottish Budget.


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National Grid for Learning: Funding to provide computers less than fouryears old, pay telecom charges, upgrade software and provide technicalsupport.

Early Intervention: Funding to support key commitments to raisingstandards in schools and promote social inclusion.

Support for teachers 5-14: As early intervention.

Reducing class sizes: Funding to reduce class sizes in Primary 1 – 3.

Classroom assistants: Funding to provide classroom assistants inprimary schools.

New Community Schools: Funding to establish 2 New CommunitySchools in each local authority area.

Special Educational Needs

Grants are to assist education authorities to improve special educational needsprovision, particularly training of teachers and staff involved in special educationalneeds provision.

Gaelic in Education

Grants assist education authorities with the additional costs associated with Gaelicmedium teaching, in particular the development of Gaelic medium teachingmaterials.

Social Work Services

Grants assist local authorities with the provision of training for relevant staffinvolved in the provision of social work services.

END YEAR FLEXIBILITY

The Scottish Executive announced the end year flexibility allocations on 19February 20012 for financial year 2000-2001. This identified an under-spend of£86.5m in the education budget allocated for financial year 2000-2001. However,the education budget received an end year flexibility award of £101.9m, some£15.4m more than was under-spent.

EXECUTIVE RESPONSE TO COMMITTEE COMMENTS ON THE ANNUALEXPENDITURE REPORT

2 Scottish Executive Press Release SE4012-2001


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The Committee submitted its Stage 1 Budget Report to the Finance Committee on31 May 2001. The Report included several recommendations to the Executive forimprovement to the Annual Expenditure Report. The following section highlightshow the Executive has responded to these comments:

It is still not possible to monitor the success of policies, and consequentlythe budget allocations, of particular programmes and there is still a lack ofstatistics indicating the ongoing success, or otherwise, of individualprogrammes.

Despite the introduction of two new level 3 budget headings in the DraftScottish Budget it is still difficult to reconcile Executive policies andprogrammes with expenditure using details provided.

It is still unclear that most education spending is channelled through localauthorities, which decide on their own spending priorities. No figures havebeen provided as to the level of funding channelled through localauthorities or how this is being spent.

If you have any comments or questions about this Research Note, please contact Alan Rehfisch onextension 85158 or [email protected].

Research Notes are compiled for the benefit of Members of Parliament and their personal staff.Authors are available to discuss the contents of these papers with Members and their staff butcannot advise members of the general public.

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EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORT COMMITTEE

23 October 2001

School Education (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill

Introduction of Bill1. The School Education (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 28

September by Mr Jack McConnell (Minister for Education, Europe and ExternalAffairs), supported by Nicol Stephen (Deputy Minister for Education, Europe andExternal Affairs). Explanatory Notes (and other accompanying documents) wereprinted to accompany the Bill. Copies of the Bill, etc are enclosed.

Reference to committees2. The Parliamentary Bureau, at its meeting of 2 October, agreed to refer the Bill to

the Education, Culture and Sport Committee as lead committee. The Bill was alsoreferred to the Subordinate Legislation Committee under Rule 9.6.2, in virtue ofsection 3 (2) of the Bill, which would enable Scottish Ministers to setcommencement dates.

Invitations to provide evidence3. Written evidence has been invited from COSLA, local authorities and from the

Scottish Consumer Council. A general invitation to submit written evidence hasbeen posted onto the committee’s website. The Minister for Education, Europeand External Affairs and COSLA have accepted invitations to give oral evidence.

4. At the time of writing, written evidence has been received from East AyrshireCouncil and from the City of Edinburgh Council. Copies are enclosed. Asubmission is anticipated from Dundee City Council and members will be advisedby the clerk to the committee of any other written evidence which is receivedbefore the meeting.

Purposes of Bill5. The purposes of the Bill, as set out in its long title, are to amend the law about the

provision of education for children under school age for whom placing requestshave been made; and to make provision relating to the abolition of the post ofassistant headteacher. Further details are set out in the ExplanatoryMemorandum and the Policy Memorandum.

Executive consultation6. The Executive undertook a consultation exercise with interested parties which

was completed on 17 September. A summary of the responses has beenforwarded to the convener by the Minister and a copy of the summary isenclosed. Copies of the full responses are lodged with SPICe.

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Equal Opportunities7. The Equal Opportunities Committee has written to the Minister seeking

information in relation to the equal opportunities implications of the Bill. Thatcommittee intends to submit its views to this committee on Tuesday 30 October.

Subordinate legislation8. The Subordinate Legislation Committee will consider the Bill at its meeting of 23

October and will report to this committee no later than Tuesday 30 October.

Timetable9. It is anticipated that the Education, Culture and Sport Committee will consider

and agree its Stage 1 report on the general principles of the Bill at its meeting of30 October, in order to enable the Parliament to consider the Bill at Stage 1 on 8November.

10. It is anticipated that Stage 2 of the Bill will be considered by the committee inNovember.



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ED/01/26/5Research Note Prepared for theEducation, Culture and SportCommittee

16 October 2001

THE DRAFT SCOTTISH BUDGET: SPORT & CULTURE

ALAN REHFISCH

The Scottish Executive published the Draft Scottish Budget on 20 September2001. This Research Note has been prepared to assist the Education, Cultureand Sport Committee in its scrutiny of the Draft Scottish Budget. It includes acomparison between the Sport and Culture objectives, targets and budgetallocations in the Draft Scottish Budget with those outlined in the AnnualExpenditure Report, published by the Scottish Executive on 30 March 2001. Italso highlights where changes have been made and the reasons provided by theExecutive for such changes.


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THE SCOTTISH BUDGET

The following table provides an overview of Scottish Executive stage one 2002-2003 budget allocations, as published in the Annual Expenditure Report, andcontrasts these with the figures set out in the Draft Scottish Budget. The Sportand Culture budget is highlighted for ease of comparison with other budgetheadings.

Table 1: The Scottish Budget

Cash totals (£m’s) % share of total budget

AER Draft +/- AER Draft +/-

Central Governmentsupport for LocalAuthorities

6,937 6955 18 33.0 32.9 -0.1

Children and CentralGovernment Education

337 354 17 1.6 1.7 0.1

Community Care 9 9 0 0.0 0.0 0.0Crown Office 60 62 2 0.3 0.3 0.0Enterprise and LifelongLearning

2,200 2,187 -13 10.5 10.4 -0.1

Environment 540 555 15 2.6 2.6 0.1EU Structural Funds 198 198 0 0.9 0.9 0.0Food Standards agency 5 5 0 0.0 0.0 0.0Forestry 84 86 2 0.4 0.4 0.0Health 6,562 6,666 104 31.2 31.6 0.3Justice 702 698 -4 3.3 3.3 0.0Modernising GovernmentFund

16 57 41 0.1 0.3 0.2

Rural Affairs 630 624 -6 3.0 3.0 0.0Scottish ExecutiveAdministration

214 214 0 1.0 1.0 0.0

Scottish ExecutiveAssociated Departments

24 19 -5 0.1 0.1 0.0

Scottish Public PensionsAgency

279 279 0 1.3 1.3 0.0

Social Justice 766 748 -18 3.7 3.5 -0.1Sport and Culture 151 152 1 0.7 0.7 0.0Transport 1,034 1,029 -5 4.9 4.9 0.0Scottish Parliament &Audit Scotland

112 145 33 0.5 0.7 0.2

DEL RESERVE 53 20 -33 0.3 0.1 -0.2AME RESERVE 63 64 1 0.3 0.3 0.0

Total 21,020 21,126 106 100.0 100.0 0.0


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SPORT AND CULTURE

The Scottish Executive has made modest changes to its spending plans for Sportand Culture in the Draft Scottish Budget, compared with those outlined in theAnnual Expenditure Report. These changes are highlighted in Table 2 below andin 2000-2001 real terms in Table 3.

Table 2: AER and Draft Scottish Budget Sport and Culture Budget Figures(£m’s)

2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004


National Institutions 41.3 41.3 0 43.3 43.3 0 44.8 44.8 0Scottish Arts Council 34.0 34.0 0 34.5 34.5 0 35.5 35.5 0Other Arts1 16.0 15.8 -0.2 17.4 17.2 -0.2 19.4 17.2 -2.2Sport 13.0 14.0 +1 13.0 14.0 +1 13.0 14.0 +1Historic Scotland andRCAHMS

41.5 41.7 +0.2 42.6 43.3 +0.7 42.9 43.6 +0.7

Total 145.8 146.8 +1 150.8 152.3 +1.5 155.6 155.1 -0.5

Table 3: Annual Expenditure Report and Draft Scottish Budget Sport andCulture figures compared in real terms at 2000-2001 prices using HMTreasury Deflator Figures (£m’s)

2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004


National Institutions 40.3 40.3 0.0 41.2 41.2 0.0 41.6 41.6 0.0Scottish Arts Council 33.2 33.2 0.0 32.8 32.8 0.0 33.0 33.0 0.0Other Arts 15.6 15.4 -0.2 16.6 16.4 -0.2 18.0 16.0 -2.0Sport 12.7 13.7 +1.0 12.4 13.3 +1.0 12.1 13.0 0.9Historic Scotland andRCAHMS

40.5 40.7 +0.2 40.5 41.2 +0.7 39.8 40.5 0.7

Total 142.2 143.2 -1.0 143.5 145.0 1.4 144.5 144.0 -0.5

Objectives and Targets

National Institutions

The Scottish Executive has allocated an additional £11.7m funding to the nationalinstitutions for financial years 2001-2002 to 2003-2004. These funds were

1 “Other Arts” includes: Scottish Screen, , the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, the NationalPolicy on Architecture and Gaelic television.


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allocated to improve education and IT services, resolve specific staff shortagesand allow the National Museums of Scotland to abolish entrance fees at the RoyalScottish Museum and National Museum of Scotland between 2001-2002 and2003-2004. However, the cost of abolishing these entrance charges is quoted at£3.4m in the Annual Expenditure Report and £5.7 in the Draft Scottish Budget, anadditional £2.3m.

Projected visitor numbers to the national collections, outlined in the AnnualExpenditure Report, see below, remain unchanged in the Draft Scottish Budget.

2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004National CollectionVisitor Numbers

2,308,000 Tbc Tbc

Scottish Arts Council

The policies and targets for Scottish Arts Council outlined in the AnnualExpenditure Report remain unchanged in the Draft Scottish Budget. TheExecutive highlight the fact the Scottish Arts Council received additional resourcesamounting to £15.2m over the 3 years from April 2001 to implement strategicobjectives set out in the National Cultural Strategy, particularly:

• £2m over 2002-03 and 2003-04 to set up a National Theatre for Scotland.• £1.5m to promote traditional arts• an unspecified amount to develop programmes to promote cultural

diversity, expand its education work, increase support for the nationalcompanies to pursue and maintain excellence and take forward new workto promote Scotland’s culture internationally

Targets for SAC funded programmes, unchanged from the Annual ExpenditureReport, are as follows:

2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004Number of outreachProgrammes

30 Tbc Tbc

Level of private fundingand sponsorship

£4.2m Tbc Tbc

Audiences for SACfunded events

4.4m Tbc Tbc

Other Arts

The “Other Arts” heading includes funding for Scottish Screen, the Royal Fine ArtCommission for Scotland, the National Policy on Architecture and Gaelictelevision. As can be seen from Table 3 this is the only heading whether there is ayear on year decrease in real terms funding.


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“Other Arts” targets outlined in the Draft Scottish Budget remain unchanged fromthe Annual Expenditure Report:

The following table shows the Executive’s estimates for the number of visitorscreated by the National Policy for Architecture:

2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004Architecture Events andoutreach programmes

30 30 30

National on-linearchitecture centre

25,000 35,000 50,000

The target number of viewers for the Gaelic news programme “Telfios” included inthe Annual Expenditure Report has been removed from the Draft Scottish Budget.

No particular policies relating to Scottish Screen are outlined in the Draft ScottishBudget, although a target of 10 films to be produced in Scotland during 2001-2002is carried forward from the Annual Expenditure Report.

The Draft Scottish Budget states that £1m per year is to be spent on attractingmajor international sporting events to Scotland, such as golf’s Ryder Cup in 20102

or football’s European Championships in 2008. This spending was not mentionedin the Annual Expenditure Report, no additional funds have been made availableto meet this new commitment.

Sport

The policies relating to sport in the Draft Scottish Budget remain unchanged fromthose in the Annual Expenditure Report. The Scottish Executive fund sportthrough sportscotland, which will receive annual funding of £12.5m for 2001-02 to2003-04, this includes an additional £6m allocated over the over three year budgetperiod. These additional funds will be used to:

� expand the Active Primary Schools Pilot Programme (£2.8m over 3 years)� expand the local coaching Development Officer network (£1.8m over 3 years)

The Executive state that targets for the number of schools taking part in the ActivePrimary Schools programme in the Annual Expenditure Report were incorrect,originally stating that 220 schools would participate in 2000-2001 and 400 in 2001-2002. These figures have been revised to 100 in 2000-2001 and 250 in 2001-2002. The remaining sports targets remain unchanged.

2 The European Tour Ryder Cup Board announced on 28 September 2001 that the 2010 Ryder Cupwould be played at the Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales and the 2014 Ryder Cup would beplayed at the Gleneagles Hotel, Perthshire, Scotland.


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Historic Scotland and Royal Commission on the Ancient and HistoricMonuments of Scotland (RCAHMS)

Policies, targets and spending relating to Historic Scotland, outlined in the AnnualExpenditure Report, remain unchanged in the Draft Scottish Budget. HistoricScotland received an extra £0.8m funding as part of spending round 2000,covering the period 2001-2002 to 2003-2004. The extra funding was allocated asfollows:

� £0.1m meets the costs of 2 extra Education Officers based at Edinburgh andStirling Castles

� £ 0.2m is to be used to improve facilities for people with disabilities at 40 mainsites across Scotland

� £0.5m to help meet the major changes to the agency’s pay system

Targets for Historic Scotland established in the Annual Expenditure Report,reiterated in the Draft Scottish Budget, are as follows.

2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004Weighted number oflisted building re-surveyunits

200 Tbc Tbc

Number of historicbuilding repair projectsnewly assisted by grants

150 Tbc Tbc

Number of conditionsurveys completed forproperties in care

65 Tbc Tbc

Average Retail spendper visitor to HistoricScotland Properties

£2.05 Tbc Tbc

Policies and targets relating to Royal Commission on the Ancient and HistoricMonuments of Scotland, outlined in the Annual Expenditure Report, remainunchanged in the Draft Scottish Budget. The Executive predicts that theRCAHMS will schedule 200 monuments in 2001-2002.

If you have any comments or questions about this Research Note, please contact Alan Rehfisch onextension 85158 or [email protected].


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Documents

1. The Committee will consider whether to take item 2 in ... · ED/01/26/A Education, Culture and Sport Committee 26th Meeting, 2001 Tuesday 23 October 2001 The Committee will meet