Further to the answers to questions S4W-29691 and S5W-22664 by Angela Constance on 2 March 2016 and by John Swinney on 1 May 2019, whether …

Table 1 provides information on average gross revenue expenditure in Scotland per pre-school registration, and primary and secondary pupil along with information on teaching allocations per college and university place (Average Teaching Grant Funding per FTE
- including controlled SG funded places – expenditure on tuition fees and student support not included).
Table 1: Average expenditure per place for each education level in cash terms
Education level
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13 1
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16 2
2016-17 3
2017-18 4
2018-19 4,5
2019-20 4,6
2020-21
Pre-school
£3,456
£3,193
£3,194
£3,102
£3,411
£3,957
£4,344
£4,561
£5,190
£6,958
-
Primary School
£5,001
£4,935
£4,899
£4,880
£4,819
£4,877
£4,980
£5,169
£5,444
£5,779
-
Secondary School
£6,598
£6,495
£6,629
£6,714
£6,795
£6,920
£7,046
£7,127
£7,454
£7,787
-
College
£3,803
£3,601
£3,496
£3,317
£3,317
£3,421
£3,527
£3,615
£3,972
£4,064
£4,284
University
£5,219
£5,115
£5,379
£5,514
£5,620
£5,655
£5,435
£5,437
£5,560
£5,563
£5,703
Table 2 provides the same information in 2020-21 prices.
Table 2: Average expenditure per place for each education level in real terms (2020-21=100)
Education level
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13 1
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16 2
2016-17 3
2017-18 4
2018-19 4,5
2019-20 4,6
2020-21
Pre-school
£4,321
£3,933
£3,854
£3,678
£3,989
£4,589
£4,917
£5,073
£5,641
£7,397
-
Primary School
£6,252
£6,078
£5,912
£5,785
£5,635
£5,657
£5,636
£5,749
£5,917
£6,143
-
Secondary School
£8,249
£7,999
£8,000
£7,959
£7,946
£8,026
£7,975
£7,927
£8,102
£8,278
-
College
£4,754
£4,435
£4,219
£3,932
£3,879
£3,968
£3,992
£4,021
£4,318
£4,321
£4,284
University
£6,525
£6,299
£6,492
£6,537
£6,572
£6,559
£6,152
£6,047
£6,044
£5,913
£5,703
For pre-school education, estimates are derived by dividing total expenditure adjusted for inter-authority transfers on pre-school education, reported by local authorities in the Local Finance Return, by the total number of early learning and childcare registrations, reported in the Scottish Government’s Early Learning and Childcare statistics.
Average gross revenue expenditure per pupil in primary and secondary education respectively is arrived at by taking the total gross revenue expenditure adjusted for inter-authority transfers, reported by local authorities on primary and secondary education to the local financial return, divided by the number of pupils in primary and secondary education as per the most recent statistics reported in the pupil census.
To ensure comparability with the 2019-20 figures, the earlier figures provided here for pre-primary, primary and secondary education expenditure have been re-calculated on a consistent basis and have been updated to take into account any methodological changes and revisions to the calculation of expenditure figures from the Local Government Financial returns. Some of the figures presented here, therefore, may differ from those provided previously in answers to parliamentary questions.
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) have supplied detail of the cost of a College place (expenditure per full-time equivalent (FTE)). This is calculated by taking funding provided to Colleges for core teaching and fee waiver grant divided by the weighted SUMs (relative cost to a college of delivering different subjects). Expenditure excludes tuition fees not paid by SFC (mainly the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS)) and student support funding or funding from the European Social Fund.
The cost of a University place, also provided by the SFC, is estimated by taking the total teaching grant awarded to Universities divided by the total number of SFC funded places for Scottish and EU domiciled FTEs. Expenditure figures exclude funding for student support, SFC’s research and strategic funds, and tuition fees that SAAS pay. Total FTE figures are SFC/SG funded places and do not include fe