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.

The Scottish Government does not hold the specific information requested. However, in February 2019, the Scottish Government published a report entitled “Developing information on hate crime recorded by the police in Scotland”. This report covers the years 2014-15 to 2017-18 and includes the number of hate crimes that were aggravated by the five hate strands (race, religion, sexual orientation, disability and transgender identity). The following table shows the number of hate crimes recorded by Police Scotland with a sexual orientation aggravator for the past four years for North Ayrshire, Inverclyde and Scotland. Information for all local authorities is available in the web tables at the following link: https://www.gov.scot/publications/developing-information-hate-crime-recorded-police-scotland/

The figures presented in Table 1 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 sexual orientation. This is not necessarily limited to homophobia and could include other sexual orientations. 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 instances of homophobia that were not reported to the police.

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

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)

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)

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.

Scottish Ministers are currently engaged with Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited to confirm revised delivery dates supported by a detailed programme for the completion of the vessels.

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)

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.