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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 .

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 .

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.

The available information is given in the following table.

	Schools Presenting at Higher				Schools Presenting at Advanced Higher
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2005	2006	2007	2008
Aberdeen City	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11
Aberdeenshire	16	17	17	17	16	16	17	17
Angus	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Argyll and Bute	10	10	10	10	9	9	10	10
Clackmannanshire	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Dumfries and Galloway	15	15	15	15	14	14	15	15
Dundee City	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
East Ayrshire	9	9	9	9	9	8	9	8
East Dunbartonshire	9	9	8	8	9	9	8	8
East Lothian	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
East Renfrewshire	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Edinburgh City of	23	23	23	23	23	22	21	22
Eilean Siar	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4
Falkirk	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Fife	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19
Glasgow City	29	29	29	29	28	25	28	27
Highland	29	29	29	29	27	28	27	26
Inverclyde	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	7
Midlothian	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Moray	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
North Ayrshire	10	10	10	9	10	10	10	9
North Lanarkshire	26	26	25	25	25	25	24	25
Orkney Islands	4	2	3	2	2	2	2	2
Perth and Kinross	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Renfrewshire	12	12	11	11	12	12	11	11
Scottish Borders	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Shetland Islands	3	5	4	4	2	2	2	2
South Ayrshire	9	9	8	8	8	9	8	8
South Lanarkshire	21	19	19	17	21	19	19	17
Stirling	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
West Dunbartonshire	7	7	6	6	6	7	6	6
West Lothian	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11

 

The information requested is available in two tables, which are available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 47843).

In addition, the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) does not routinely publish data on alcohol mortality by Community Health Partnerships (CHPs).

The information requested is given in two tables, copies of which are available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 47841).

In addition, the information requested for Community Health Partnerships (alcohol discharge rates) is not routinely published by Information Services Division (ISD).

The information requested is available in two tables, from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 47842).

In addition, the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) do not routinely publish data on alcohol mortality rates by Community Health Partnerships (CPHs).

The purpose of child care discretionary funds is not to meet every demand for the cost of child care from every student. They are intended to provide institutions with a source of additional funding which colleges and universities can then use to assist students with the costs of child care who are in financial difficulty and who are at risk of not completing their courses.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-21494 on 10 March 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at . wit

The purpose of discretionary funds is not to meet every financial demand from every student. They are intended to provide institutions with a source of additional funding which colleges and universities can then use to assist students in financial difficulty and who are at risk of not completing their courses.

An in-year reallocation of Higher Education Discretionary Funds takes place in late January or early February each year. This year the reallocation process was completed by 13 February 2009. This re-allocation of funds is for higher education students in both colleges and universities. The Higher Education Discretionary Funds consist of:

The Undergraduate Discretionary Fund

The Postgraduate Discretionary Fund

The Part-time Discretionary Fund

The Childcare Discretionary Fund.

Higher Education Discretionary Fund allocations for each year are intended to provide institutions with a source of additional funding which they can then use to assist students in financial difficulty and who are at risk of not completing their course. The funds are intended to be spent within the year in which they are allocated, thus providing the maximum sum available to students in each individual year. Any unspent funds are returned for redistribution in the following academic year and are thus put straight back into the discretionary funds system.

The vast majority of funds should therefore be exhausted in the academic year for which they are allocated.

Academic Year 2006-07

A total of five institutions exhausted both their Higher Education Discretionary and Childcare Funds. These were:

Ayr College

Barony College

Glasgow Metropolitan College

North Glasgow College

Reid Kerr College.

A further five institutions exhausted only their Discretionary Fund allocation:

Banff and Buchan College

John Wheatley College

Newbattle Abbey College

Edinburgh College of Art

St Andrews University

A further three institutions exhausted only their Childcare Fund:

Borders College

Queen Margaret University College

RSAMD.

Academic Year 2007-08

A total of three institutions exhausted both their Higher Education Discretionary and Childcare Funds:

Barony College

Dundee College

Reid Kerr College.

A further three institutions exhausted only their Discretionary Fund allocation:

Edinburgh''s Telford College

John Wheatley College

Newbattle Abbey College.

A further eight institutions exhausted only their Childcare Fund:

Borders College

Glasgow Metropolitan College

Oatridge Agricultural College

Stow College

Glasgow School of Art

Heriot Watt University

RSAMD

Strathclyde University.