Current status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has provided to each local authority in each year since 2011 to support (a) kerbside recycling systems, excluding food waste collections and (b) the Recycle for Scotland campaign.
The vast majority of Scottish Government revenue funding for local authorities is provided by means of a block grant. It is the responsibility of individual local authorities to manage their own budgets and to allocate the total financial resources available to them on the basis of local needs and priorities, having first fulfilled their statutory obligations and the jointly agreed set of national and local priorities.
In addition, Zero Waste Scotland has been providing support to individual local authorities to support change and incentivise best practice in improving kerbside recycling services.
The following table shows a breakdown of grants awarded to Scottish local authorities from 2011-12 onwards for kerbside recycling services (excluding food waste) and Recycle for Scotland communications.
|
|
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
2015-16 |
|
|
£ |
£ |
£ |
£ |
£ |
|
Argyll & Bute |
12,500 |
- |
9,980 |
29,872 |
- |
|
Aberdeen City |
34,485 |
45,360 |
18,000 |
126,773 |
82,291 |
|
Aberdeenshire |
31,500 |
- |
126,506 |
125,200 |
- |
|
Angus |
14,990 |
5,400 |
- |
14,799 |
- |
|
Clackmannanshire |
7,000 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
Dumfries & Galloway |
23,842 |
332,553 |
276,518 |
128,542 |
10,000 |
|
Dundee |
21,500 |
10,000 |
108,910 |
179,565 |
88,134 |
|
East Ayrshire |
16,500 |
- |
17,500 |
5,000 |
121,335 |
|
East Dunbartonshire |
13,000 |
31,202 |
64,061 |
- |
- |
|
East Lothian |
13,000 |
- |
- |
104,543 |
63,765 |
|
East Renfrewshire |
10,000 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
Edinburgh, City of |
15,929 |
30,000 |
47,500 |
118,737 |
345,129 |
|
Falkirk |
21,000 |
- |
10,785 |
71,163 |
258,327 |
|
Fife |
48,338 |
103,545 |
- |
14,553 |
6,799 |
|
Glasgow City |
85,000 |
22,919 |
44,097 |
- |
1,078,979 |
|
Highland |
31,315 |
33,022 |
- |
20,716 |
30,861 |
|
Inverclyde |
11,000 |
14,835 |
79,970 |
174,584 |
- |
|
Midlothian |
11,000 |
18,246 |
- |
42,986 |
- |
|
Moray |
12,000 |
- |
13,563 |
- |
- |
|
North Ayrshire |
19,000 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
North Lanarkshire |
43,500 |
20,000 |
- |
71,000 |
- |
|
Orkney |
5,255 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
Perth & Kinross |
19,500 |
111,718 |
38,846 |
52,276 |
10,758 |
|
Renfrewshire |
11,500 |
6,131 |
- |
20,012 |
- |
|
Scottish Borders |
14,440 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
Shetland |
18,445 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
South Ayrshire |
15,267 |
- |
- |
15,000 |
- |
|
South Lanarkshire |
41,500 |
- |
26,130 |
3,575 |
180,612 |
|
Stirling |
11,500 |
38,121 |
- |
54,917 |
- |
|
West Dunbartonshire |
13,832 |
- |
130,000 |
37,800 |
- |
|
West Lothian |
22,000 |
- |
11,445 |
3,555 |
- |
|
Western Isles |
5,000 |
- |
65,950 |
- |
- |
It is not practical to separate out costs for kerbside recycling and Recycle for Scotland as Zero Waste Scotland funding for changing or improving local services usually combines support such as communications, training and temporary ‘implementation’ staff in a single grant award. The exception to this is 2011-12 where all identified expenditure (other than the grant for Shetland council) was specifically for Recycle for Scotland.
The Scottish Government is now supporting Councils with the implementation of the Household Recycling Charter and it has been made clear that support to local authorities for best practice in recycling (through Zero Waste Scotland) will be
re-aligned to support the Charter. To date, 23 Councils have signed up to the Charter with more authorities expected to follow suit.