Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to set aside funding, equal to that drawn down from ScotWind to help achieve budget balance, over future years for investment in projects to assist the transition to net zero.
I am giving careful consideration into how remaining ScotWind funding should be deployed in both the current and future years. Through our emergency controls and savings announced on 3 September, I will seek to minimise usage of ScotWind in 2024-25.
Successive Scottish budgets have demonstrated Scotland’s commitment to addressing the climate change crisis, using all the power and resources at our disposal to accelerate the just transition to a net zero, climate-resilient and biodiverse Scotland.
Funding and spending decisions for 2025-26 will be set out in the 2025-26 Scottish Budget in December.