Section one - social Inequalities

Question 1

Wealth - unemployment and benefits - a survey by the Scottish government in 2023 found that how many of its respondents identified that changing from a working to a workless household was a factor of their poverty?

Answer 1

22%

Question 2

Wealth - unemployment and benefits - what is the poverty rate for UC claimants?

Answer 2

54%

Question 3

Wealth - low pay and minimum wage - how many people that are living in poverty in the UK are in a working household?

Answer 3

More than 3/5

Question 4

Wealth - low pay and minimum wage - what do the Living Wage Foundation argue?

Answer 4

That two million people in the UK do not earn enough to live a sustainable lifestyle

Question 5

Wealth - education and skills - what percentage of the UK population who experience poverty have no formal qualifications?

Answer 5

40%

Question 6

Wealth - education and skills - the Robertson Trust states that what percentage of school leavers from the most deprived areas are unemployed 6 months after school, compared to the most affluent

Answer 6

10% of least affluent, 2.6% from most affluent

Question 7

Wealth - gender pay gap - on average, what amount of money does a women earn for every £1 a man earns in Scotland?

Answer 7

90p

Question 8

Wealth - gender pay gap - on average, women earn how much less over their lifetimes compared to men?

Answer 8

£330,000

Question 9

Wealth - age - what fraction of children live in poverty compared to pensioners

Answer 9

1/4 children compared to 1/6 pensioners

Question 10

Wealth - ethnicity - what is the poverty rate for minority ethnic children and how much more is this compared to their white counterparts?

Answer 10

48% which is twice more than their white counterparts

Question 11

Wealth - ethnicity - how much more likely are minority ethnic households to experience deep or really deep poverty compared to the Scottish average?

Answer 11

3x more likely

Question 12

Wealth - cost of living crisis - what rate was inflation growing at in 2022-23 compared to the increase of benefits? What did this lead to for many families?

Answer 12

Inflation grew at a rate of 11% while benefits only increased by 3.1% and this led to poverty for many families for the first time.

Question 13

Health - smoking - according to ASH Scotland, smoking tobacco products causes how many hospitalisations and how many deaths a year in Scotland?

Answer 13

100,000 hospitalisations, 9,000 deaths

Question 14

Health - smoking - smoking causes how many cases of lung cancer?

Answer 14

7/10 (70%)

Question 15

Health - alcohol - how many alcohol specific deaths were there in 2023, how much of an increase is this from the previous year?

Answer 15

1,276 deaths, a 5% increase

Question 16

Health - alcohol - how many times higher are alcohol related deaths in the most deprived areas?

Answer 16

5.6 times higher

Question 17

Health - drugs - Scotland has the highest drug related deaths in Europe with how many deaths in 2023?

Answer 17

1,197

Question 18

Health - drugs - how many drug related hospital admissions come from the 20% more deprived areas in Scotland?

Answer 18

54%

Question 19

Health - gender - how many alcohol specific deaths do males make up in Scotland?

Answer 19

2/3rds

Question 20

Health - gender - how many suicides do men account for?

Answer 20

75%

Question 21

Health - gender - in the most affluent areas, how many years of good health do women live compared to men despite having longer life expectancies?

Answer 21

22.6 years of good health compared to 23.8 for men

Question 22

Health - diet - Scottish survey in 2021 found that obesity and diet links to how many cancer cases?

Answer 22

1 in 20

Question 23

Health - diet - the Health Scotland Report shows that how many people are more likely to experience obesity in deprived areas compared to the least deprived areas?

Answer 23

1 in 3 in the most deprived, 1 in 5 in the least deprived

Question 24

Health - ethnicity - what disease are Minority Ethnic groups more likely to experience than their white counterparts?

Answer 24

Cardio-vascular disease

Question 25

Health - ethnicity - black women are how much more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth and six months after childbirth compared to white women?

Answer 25

4x more likely

Question 26

Groups - gender pay gap - according to Close The Gap, women working full time earn what percentage less than men?

Answer 26

6.6%

Question 27

Groups - the glass ceiling - Ambition And Gender At Work found that what percentage of women feel there is still barriers for those seeking senior management or board level positions?

Answer 27

73%

Question 28

Groups - the glass ceiling - how many headteachers in Scotland are female despite making up how much of the profession in Scotland?

Answer 28

43%, they make up 2/3rds

Question 29

Groups - women and poor health - women are less likely to be prescribed pain killers, yet what percentage of people affected by chronic pain are female?

Answer 29

70%

Question 30

Groups - women and poor health - what is the main cause of death for women in the UK despite this disease being perceived as low risk for women?

Answer 30

Cardiovascular diseases

Question 31

Groups - discrimination and violence - how many domestic violence incidents in Scotland have a female victim and a male perpetrator?

Answer 31

4/5 (81%)

Question 32

Groups - discrimination and violence - the Equality and Human Rights Convention found that how many new mothers are forced out of their jobs every year in the UK?

Answer 32

54,000

Question 33

Groups - men’s mental health - how much more likely is it for men to commit suicide than women?

Answer 33

3x more likely

Question 34

Groups - minority ethnics and health - what race of women have a 4x higher maternal mortality rate than white woman?

Answer 34

Black women

Question 35

Groups - racism - racial hate crimes are the most reported hate crime in Scotland, in 2021-22 how many reports were there for racial hate crimes?

Answer 35

3107

Question 36

Individualist vs collectivist - collectivism leads to dependency culture - how much does it cost Scotland a year on free personal care for the elderly alone?

Answer 36

£500 million

Question 37

Individualism vs collectivism - collectivism is too expensive - how much do free prescriptions cost Scotland, with some people even claiming free paracetamol on the NHS?

Answer 37

£1.3 billion

Question 38

Individualism vs collectivism - communities are better at meeting people’s needs - how many people volunteered during COVID-19 as part of what two volunteering charities?

Answer 38

1 million people, Ready Scotland and Good Sam

Question 39

Individualism vs collectivism - individualism breeds inequality - how much has food bank use increased under Conservative power?

Answer 39

Over 70%

Question 40

Individualism vs collectivism - collectivists argue that only the govt has the resources required - how much does healthcare in the UK cost the govt annually?

Answer 40

£200 billion

Question 41

Individualism vs collectivism - collectivists argue that individualists abandon their own beliefs during a crisis - during COVID-19 and the cost of living what two collectivist policies did the Conservatives do?

Answer 41

Furlough, £900 cost of living payments

Question 42

Tackling - universal credit - DWP argue what about universal credit claimants?

Answer 42

That they are much more likely to be employed in the first six months after claiming compared to its previous benefit system JSA

Question 43

Tackling - universal credit - JRF argue that UC has pushed how many more people into working poverty in the UK and how much has their income decreased by?

Answer 43

1.7 million poeple, reduced by £2500

Question 44

Tackling - national living wage - the Low Pay Commission found that earnings for the lowest workers is what percentage higher than if there had been no living wage?

Answer 44

30% higher

Question 45

Tackling - national living wage - JRF highlights that even after the NLW was introduced the UK poverty rate remains at what percentage?

Answer 45

22%

Question 46

Tackling - cost of living support - 8 million benefit claimants where entitled to what?

Answer 46

£900 cost of living payments

Question 47

Tackling - cost of living support - why did the cost of living payments fail to meet standards?

Answer 47

Due to many benefit claimants being eligible, and there was no way to appeal this

Question 48

Tackling - free health services - what did the SNP introduce in 2023 and what else was abolished that year?

Answer 48

Free dental care for under 26 year olds, prescription charges were abolished

Question 49

Tackling - free health services - what is the ‘Scottish effect’ and why does this show that free health services isn’t effective?

Answer 49

Scottish citizens on average have a 2 year lower life expectancy than their English counterparts and have one of the lowest life expectancies in Western Europe despite them having to pay for healthcare

Question 50

Tackling - minimum unit pricing - University of Glasgow reported that MUP has resulted in how much fewer alcohol related deaths and how many fewer hospital admissions?

Answer 50

13.4% alcohol related deaths, 4.1% fewer hospital admissions

Question 51

Tackling - minimum unit pricing - why has MUP been slammed for their proposal of increasing each unit to 65p?

Answer 51

Because it unfairly impacts the least affluent

Question 52

Tackling - the baby box - what is the engagement rate for the baby box and how many have been issued in the first 5 years?

Answer 52

98% engagement rate, 24,000 issued

Question 53

Tackling - the baby box - how many baby banks are there in the UK and what is the weekly increase of referrals to the Edinburgh Base for Pregnancy Counselling and Care?

Answer 53

Over 200 baby banks, 15% weekly increase

Question 54

Tackling - EMA - how much money do pupils get in Scotland for participating in school?

Answer 54

£30 per week

Question 55

Tackling - EMA - what is still the widest it has been in the last decade despite the education maintenance allowance?

Answer 55

The attainment gap

Question 56

Tackling - free tuition fees - what is the tuition fees in England compared to Scotland free tuition fees?

Answer 56

£9,250

Question 57

Tackling - free tuition fees - what is the problem with free tuition fees?

Answer 57

They are a ‘postcode lottery’ meaning young people in the UK all dont have the same opportunities.