Question reference: S6W-25266
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 6 February 2024
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Current status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 5 March 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of spend from the Just Transition Fund in financial year 2022-23.
Answer
The Just Transition Fund has allocated £75 million to date, supporting projects and communities across the North East and Moray to create jobs, support innovation, and secure the highly skilled workforce of the future.
A total of 23 projects were delivered through the Just Transition Fund in 2022-23.
Spend totalled £10.9 million comprised of £9.93 million in capital, £500,000 in financial transactions and £465,000 in resource funding support. A breakdown across projects is detailed in the flowing table:
Energy Transition Skills Hub (formerly Advanced Manufacturing Skills Hub | £1,180,000 (capital) |
Cabrach Distillery | £361,767.25 (capital) |
Climate Assemblies Pilot | £214,055 (resource) |
Community Capacity Support | £23,968 (resource) |
Digital Innovation Lab | £313,982.04 (capital) |
Easter Anguston Farm | £504,446.86 (capital) |
Energy Skills Passport | 1,871,967.88 (capital) |
Findhorn Ecovillage | £226,775 (capital) |
Findhorn Watershed Initiative | £139,972.45 (capital) |
Hydrogen Offshore Production (HOP2) | £126,000 (capital) |
Hydroglen | £262,270.09 (capital) |
Just Transition Hub | £243,601.16 (capital) |
Moray Council Just Transition Masterplan | £250,544.62 (capital) |
NESS Carbon Capture Feasibility Study | £96,750 (capital) |
North East Adventure Tourism (NEAT) | £397,000 (capital) |
Participatory Budgeting | £1 million (capital), £200,000 (resource) |
Pilot Energy Skills Project | £39,960 (capital) |
SeedPod | £500,000 (capital) |
Social Enterprise Just Transition Fund | £476k (capital), £500k (FT’s), £27,180 (resource) |
Sustainable Solvent Recovery/EV Battery Recycling | £457,559 (capital) |
Supply Chain Pathway and Energy Transition Challenge Fund | £1,299,598 (capital) |
Tidal Rotor Generator | £71,200 (capital) |
Moray Net Zero Bottlenecks | £41,596.47 (capital) |
Wave Energy Converter | £70,000 (capital) |