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From 2016 until 2020, the total amount of funding provided to Dundee Council for its Area Based Schemes (ABS) has been £8,113,141.00. We do not hold information about spending by ward or by constituency.

The Care Experienced Bursary (CEB) was introduced in Higher Education to full time students studying at undergraduate level in the Academic Year (AY) 2017/18. The number of CEB bursary awards made since its introduction is 2,472.

The CEB was introduced to full time students in Further Education in the AY 2018-19. The total number of awards made since its introduction is 4,338.

The National Concessionary Travel Scheme provides eligible applicants free bus travel through the National Entitlement Card (NEC).

The Improvement Service is responsible for the management of the NEC, the application process and provides overall governance for the data management of cardholders.

Therefore, Transport Scotland does not have access to the information requested but the Improvement Service should be able to provide it, and they can be contacted at [email protected]

Regarding the roll out of the under 22s concessionary travel scheme, we estimate that there are around 30,000 residents of Dundee, who are aged between 5 and 21, who may benefit from this.

The following tables set out the level of Scottish Government funding provided through the Scottish Funding Council to universities and colleges in Dundee in each academic year since 2015-16.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Scottish Government introduced an unprecedented package of business support worth over £3 billion, including 100% rates relief for properties in the retail, hospitality, leisure and aviation sectors as well as a 1.6% relief awarded to every property in Scotland, effectively introducing a poundage freeze.

The following table shows the number of properties awarded each of these relief, and the value of reliefs, by local authority area.

Further details are available in the Non-Domestic Rates Reliefs 2020 publication, available at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/non-domestic-rates-relief-statistics-2020/ . As at 1 July 2020, £965m was attributable to these COVID-19 reliefs (though in some instances the COVID-19 reliefs may have displaced a previous relief).

Between 2006 and 2020 the Scottish Government has provided support to tackle youth unemployment in Dundee through a range of measures. This includes, but is not limited to programmes and services such as Activity Agreements, employer recruitment incentives, Employability Fund, Community Jobs Scotland, apprenticeships, college and university places, No One Left Behind employability support, Fair Start Scotland, Parental Employment Support Fund and the Young Person’s Guarantee.

The Scottish Government funded and worked with a range of partners to deliver support measures to tackle youth unemployment in Dundee. This includes Dundee City Council, Skills Development Scotland, colleges and universities, as well as a range of third sector organisations such as Inspiring Scotland and the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.

Due to the scope and timeframe of the question, we have set out in Table 1 the funding provided directly by the Scottish Government to Dundee City Council for youth employability support.

This should be viewed as the minimum funding provided directly to Dundee to tackle youth unemployment between 2011 and 2020. Young people in Dundee will also have had access to support from nationally funded programmes and further and higher education, as well as other support from Europe, DWP, Local Authorities and the third sector.

Information regarding funding provided to Dundee City Council between 2006 and 2011 has not been included due to the disproportionate cost to the Scottish Government.

Dundee City Council have received the funding outlined below to deliver a number of employability programmes:

Table 1. Youth Employability Funding to Dundee City Council

The following tables show the number of properties receiving 100% non-domestic rates relief in the Dundee City Council area in each year for which data is available, broken down by ward and the value of reliefs awarded to non-domestic properties in these wards. The data include all awards of 100% relief (either a single relief or a combination of reliefs summing to 100%), e.g. through the Small Business Bonus Scheme; charitable rates relief; empty property relief; retail, hospitality, leisure and aviation relief, etc.

Note that the following figures relate to numbers of properties, rather than businesses, as one business can occupy multiple properties.

Data for years between 2006-07 and 2011-12, and for 2017-18, is not available.

Note also that ward level data is not available for all local authority areas; this is dependent on the data available on the valuation roll for each area.

Table 1: Number of properties receiving 100% rates relief in Dundee, by ward and year

NHS Boards draw funding for mental health services from the overall funds allocated to them by the Scottish Government. Local budget decisions should reflect the national mental health priority and NHS Boards are expected to work with Integration Authorities and other partners to plan and deliver person centred, safe and effective mental health services which meet the needs of their populations.

NHS Tayside’s overall budget has increased in cash terms by £303.0 million (58.6%) from 2006-07 to 2021-22. NHS Scotland expenditure on mental health is reported in the Scottish Health Service Costs , published annually by ISD Scotland. Table 1 below shows expenditure identified as relating to mental health services delivered in hospitals or in the community aimed specifically at children and adolescents and overall mental health expenditure in Scotland.

Table 1: NHS Tayside Mental Health Expenditure Financial year 2016-17 to 2019-20 (latest available)

The £130 Pandemic Support Payment will be made to households in receipt of Council Tax Reduction and certain households who are either exempt from Council Tax or have no liability, including those in temporary accommodation and care leavers. Based on the latest data available on receipt of Council Tax Reduction, from January 2021, we anticipate that around 17,950 households in the Dundee City Council area will benefit from this measure.

The Scottish Government continue to engage with COSLA and local authorities on delivery of this new payment, which will be made by the end of summer 2021. Further detail, including eligibility and payment dates, will be published on mygov.scot in due course.

The Schools Healthy Living Survey Statistics Report for 2020 showed that there were 4,172 children in primaries 1 to 3 present at school on the day the census was taken and 3,008 of those children took a free school meal. This represents an uptake rate of 72.1%.

The proposal to expand provision of universal free school meals in primaries 4 to 7 is intended for all pupils who attend primary school. The latest published data, obtained from the Pupil Census 2020 Supplementary Statistics, shows that there were 6,150 children in primaries 4 to 7 at primary schools across the Dundee City Council area.