Question reference: S6W-03340
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 28 September 2021
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Current status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 18 October 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much was awarded by each local authority from the most recent round of funding from its Green Jobs Fund, also broken down by how many (a) awards were made and (b) jobs are expected to be directly created in each area as a result of the funding allocated.
Answer
As of 12 October 2021, 36 projects have been awarded funding through the Green Jobs Fund (GJF). This amounts to £8,944,969 of funding across 18 different local authority areas. The total number of jobs to be created from this first allocation of funding is expected to be 517.8 FTE. A second GJF funding allocation round will take place later this year.
The following table shows the breakdown of current awards by local authority, detailing the amounts awarded, the number of awards made and the number of jobs expected to be created in each local authority as a result of the funding allocated.
Local Authority | Amount of funding awarded | Number of awards made | Number of jobs expected to be created over a 5 year period (FTE) |
Aberdeen City Council | £708,000 | 3 | 68 |
Aberdeenshire Council | £665,000 | 3 | 94 |
Angus Council | £291,200 | 1 | 9 |
City of Edinburgh Council | £1,794,489 | 6 | 34 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | £87,000 | 1 | 14 |
Dumfries and Galloway | £400,000 | 2 | 27 |
Dundee City Council | £400,000 | 1 | 21 |
East Dunbartonshire Council | £450,000 | 1 | 22 |
Falkirk Council | £200,000 | 1 | 15 |
Fife Council | £250,000 | 1 | 12 |
Glasgow City Council | £1,094,601 | 4 | 84 |
Moray Council | £200,000 | 1 | 22 |
North Lanarkshire Council | £1,234,572 | 4 | 56 |
Shetland Islands Council | £240,000 | 2 | 9.8 |
South Lanarkshire Council | £200,000 | 1 | 5 |
Stirling Council | £199,330 | 1 | 3 |
The Highland Council | £309,554 | 2 | 16 |
West Lothian Council | £221,223 | 1 | 6 |
Total | £8,944,969 | 36 | 517.8 |