Questions and answers

Question reference: S6W-35271

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 12 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how much each local authority has spent on transport for (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special school pupils in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S6W-35269

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 12 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many additional (a) local authority- and (b) privately-run nursery places have been created in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S6W-35272

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 12 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special school closures there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.

In 1999 there were 2,293 primary schools and in 2024 there were 1,978 primary schools.

In 1999 there were 389 secondary schools and in 2024 there were 360 secondary schools.

In 1999 there were 195 special schools and in 2024 there were 107 special schools. However, since 2018 special schools with no pupils on the roll have no longer been included in the figure, which at the time resulted in a reduction of 21 schools.

The latest data by local authority (and nationally) is available here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/pupil-census-supplementary-statistics/.Table 5.1 shows the data overall, Table 6.1 shows the data for Primary schools, Table 7.1 shows the data for Secondary schools and Table 8.1 shows the data for Special schools.

More detailed information about school openings, closures, mergers and instances where a school has been mothballed can be found on the school contact details spreadsheet in the 'Schools opened or closed' tab: School contact details - gov.scot, but recording of this data is only available from 2007 onwards.

Question reference: S6W-35276

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many bursaries have been provided to students attending independent schools in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S6W-35274

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many attacks on a fellow pupil by (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special school pupils have been recorded in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S6W-35273

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special school nurses there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.

Data on school nurses by sector and local authority is available from 2019 to 2023, here:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-support-staff-management-information/

from 2017 to 2018, here:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-support-staff-statistics/

and from 2010 to 2016, here:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/teacher-census-supplementary-statistics/

Data prior to 2010 is not available.

Data for 2024 will be released on 25 March 2025.

Question reference: S6W-35268

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 11 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) local authority- and (b) privately-run nurseries have closed in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S6W-35450

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 20 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to open the Fairer Funding Fund, following the closure of the recent pilot.

Question reference: S6W-35039

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the most recent data it has regarding the number of (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils leaving the independent sector and enrolling in state schools, broken down by local authority.

Scottish Government continues to engage with local authorities to understand the impact on the Scottish state sector to date.

Scottish Government does not routinely collect this information.

As part of ongoing work to receive assurance from local authorities that they have the capacity to support increased school rolls, a small number of local authorities have provided indicative figures for the number of pupils enrolling in state schools from independent schools. This information is limited and is not broken down by primary and secondary for all areas.

Local Authority	Total pupil enrolments from independent to state sector in 2024-25	(a) Of which are primary pupils	(b) Of which are secondary pupils
City of Edinburgh Council (January 2025)	58	22	36
East Dunbartonshire (February)	9	(not provided)	(not provided)
East Renfrewshire (January)	12	(not provided)	(not provided)

Question reference: S6W-35270

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 5 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many complaints regarding quadbikes and off-road vehicles have the police received in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

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