Written Question · S3W-18709 · Session 3
What the 2007-08 real-terms equivalent combined baseline budget is for Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland in the…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the 2007-08 real-terms equivalent combined baseline budget is for Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland in the Highlands and Islands and the Business Gateway scheme in all local authorities in the Highlands and Islands for each year of the current spending review period.
The answer
No direct budget existed for Skills Development Scotland (SDS) in 2007-08 and the contribution to this area from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) was held in its published budget. Decisions on programme spend within the Highlands and Islands are an operational matter for SDS.
There is currently no Business Gateway service in the Highlands and Islands and therefore there is no baseline budget in HIE. The Scottish Government, COSLA, Highlands and Islands local authorities and HIE are currently discussing introducing the Business Gateway there but local authorities have not yet finalised their individual plans for the new service. Once agreement is reached about the overall transfer of funding, it will be for COSLA and Highlands and Islands local authorities to discuss how such funds are to be distributed amongst the local authorities.
The overall real terms budgets for Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Skills Development Scotland are:
| 2007-08
(£ million)
| 2008-09
(£ million)
| 2009-10
(£ million)
| 2010-11
(£ million)
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
| 89.0
| 73.3
| 69.75
| 67.98
Skills Development Scotland
| 0
| 170.75
| 168.51
| 157.97
There is currently no Business Gateway service in the Highlands and Islands and therefore there is no baseline budget in HIE. The Scottish Government, COSLA, Highlands and Islands local authorities and HIE are currently discussing introducing the Business Gateway there but local authorities have not yet finalised their individual plans for the new service. Once agreement is reached about the overall transfer of funding, it will be for COSLA and Highlands and Islands local authorities to discuss how such funds are to be distributed amongst the local authorities.
The overall real terms budgets for Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Skills Development Scotland are:
| 2007-08
(£ million)
| 2008-09
(£ million)
| 2009-10
(£ million)
| 2010-11
(£ million)
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
| 89.0
| 73.3
| 69.75
| 67.98
Skills Development Scotland
| 0
| 170.75
| 168.51
| 157.97
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-18709 by reference.