Chamber and committees

The answer refers to funding for low or zero carbon road transport. It does not cover funding for areas such as active travel.

Since 2016 we have awarded £12.3m of funding for low carbon transport projects through initiatives such as the Local Authority Installation Programme, Switched on Towns and Cities, Switched on Fleets and our Low Carbon Travel and Transport Programme. Funds have been awarded to Dundee City Council and other organisations across the public and private sectors, such as Xplore Dundee who were awarded £1.9m of funding this year through the Scottish Low Emission Bus Scheme (SULEBS) for the purchase of 12 ultra-low emission busses and the associated infrastructure.

Scottish Government is also working in partnership with the seven Scottish cities through the Scottish Cities Alliance (SCA) to support its decarbonisation ambitions. Dundee are working with Transport Scotland on the transport element of this transition, focused on the switchover to zero-emission city fleets and public transport. Scottish Government are working closely with all City partners, including Dundee, on a Funding and Investment Strategy for Net Zero.

The breakdown of funding since financial year 2015-2016 is as follows

2015-2016 - £214,715

2016-2017 - £202,871

2017-2018 - £73,455

2018-2019 - £1,995,736

2019-2020 - £6,761,349

2020-2021 - £3,053,353

Total - £12,301,479

We will continue to support opportunities to capitalise on these and future investments, growing the local and wider Scottish economy, creating quality and lasting employment opportunities across Scotland and supported by ongoing developments around the impressive and strategically important Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc (MSIP) site where innovation in low carbon transport solutions, particularly in hydrogen, is emerging as a speciality. This builds on £3 million of funding provided by Transport Scotland in 2019 to Dundee City Council to support hydrogen project activities.

Student support funding provided to further education students at Dundee and Angus College:

The Scottish Government has provided a total of £1,464,000 of active travel funding to Dundee City Council since April 2016. We are aware that the area has been in receipt of an additional £7,312,839 through Government funded active travel programmes delivered by partners.

The 2021-22 Scottish budget will deliver multiple benefits to the people of Dundee, and also to the wider community. These are split into several areas which are detailed below:

• The Local government settlement;
• Employability and skills funding;
• Towns regeneration;
• Tay cities region deal; and
• The Infrastructure investment plan.

The Local Government Settlement

In 2021-22, Dundee City Council will receive a total funding package of
‎ £342.3 million to support local services, which includes an extra £7.7 million to support vital day to day services, equivalent to an increase of 2.4 per cent compared to 2020-21.

To date, the council have been allocated an additional £41.8 million to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, through the local government settlement - over and above their regular grant payments.

Employability and skills funding

In building for a successful recovery and to ensure that no one is left behind there must be a heavy focus on employability and skills, and that investment in new jobs will be key. In 2021-22 we will invest more than £1bn to drive forward our national ambition for jobs and to equip our workforce with the future skills they need.

Our 2021-22 Scottish Budget allocation includes £125m for skills and employment support, including the Young Person’s Guarantee and the National Transition Training Fund, supporting those 25 and over back into work. Dundee will benefit proportionately from this funding to help people of all ages across the city to retain or re-enter work.

Towns regeneration

The Scottish Budget sets us on a path to establishing a new Place Based Investment Programme which will be backed by £325m capital over the next five years.

This will benefit towns and cities across Scotland, supporting place, community regeneration, town centres, and 20 minute neighbourhoods. It includes maintaining the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund as well as capital funding that will be allocated to each of Scotland’s 32 local authorities to invest locally in line with the above shared aspirations.

Tay cities region deal

The Budget also includes over £200m of funding for this year’s delivery of the City Region and Regional Growth Deals programme, including the Tay Cities Region Deal. Scottish Government has committed £150 million to the Tay Cities Deal over ten years.

In Dundee, this includes delivery of the cyberQuarter at Abertay University and the Biomedical Cluster at Dundee University, which will together receive up to‎ £31 million of SG funding through the Deal and aim to further enhance the city’s reputation for innovation.

Infrastructure investment plan

The Infrastructure Investment Plan 2021-22 to 2025-26, published on 4 February, offers a robust pipeline of over £26 million of work that will help stimulate a green recovery and build market confidence.

The Plan included the following specific investments in Dundee:

• A proposed new East End Community Campus to replace Braeview Academy and Craigie High School as part of the £2 billion Learning Estate Investment Programme.
• A Community Custody Unit in Dundee (£11.6 million) as part of our
  ‎ £98 million of investment in the construction of the innovative new female custodial estate.

In addition, the new Infrastructure Investment Plan outlines a number of national programmes including £3.4 billion for affordable housing, our £600 million R100 broadband programme and over £550 million for active travel, all of which will also benefit people in Dundee.

(a) Scottish Government provides direct resource funding to the V&A Dundee, since 2016 this has been £7.9 million, which includes £1 million of emergency Covid-19 funding provided in 2020. Scottish Government also provided in total £37.6 million towards the project build. This was composed of £25 million in direct capital, £5.5 million of which was between 2016-18, and £12.6 million Growth Accelerator funding.

(b) the Dundee Rep Theatre does not receive direct support from Scottish Government, but support is allocated via Creative Scotland. The Dundee Rep has received 5 awards from Creative Scotland since 2016 (including Regular Funding) totalling just over £6.0 million. £480,000 of this was Covid-19 emergency funding from the Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund.

(c) Scottish Government does not usually provide direct support to other Dundee cultural and tourism organisations. Support is normally allocated via Creative Scotland, Museums Galleries Scotland and Visit Scotland, and all funding decisions are made independently by these funding organisations. Figures provided by Creative Scotland show they have allocated over £11.6 million since 2016 to Dundee based projects and organisations. This includes £78,000 in Covid-19 emergency funding awarded through the Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund. Figures from Museums Galleries Scotland show that over £900,000 has been allocated by them to Dundee based museums since 2016, including £485,000 of Covid-19 emergency support through the Museums Recovery and Resilience Fund.

In addition, in 2020 the Scottish Government provided over £1 million in emergency Covid-19 funding to Dundee based cultural and tourism organisations, through a number of Covid-19 funding schemes. This includes £547,000 to creative industries and tourism and hospitality businesses from the Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund, £318,000 through the Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery Fund, and £232,000 through the Creative, Tourism and Hospitality Enterprises Hardship Fund.

The following table shows the number of properties in Dundee receiving rates relief of 100% or less in each year since 2016-17.

Property-level data for 2017-18 is not available. The data includes all reliefs e.g. the Small Business Bonus Scheme, charitable rates relief; empty property relief; retail, hospitality, leisure and aviation relief, etc. 100% rates relief includes both single reliefs, as well as combinations of two or more reliefs summing to 100%.

Please note that these figures relate to properties, rather than businesses, as one business can occupy multiple properties.

Dundee City Council has received £999,000 in Scottish Government capital funding through the Town Centre Fund. The council received £735,000 from the initial 2019-20 fund, and a further £264,000 in 2020-21 as part of the Return to Work economic recovery stimulus package announced in June 2020 to support local construction and boost jobs.

The Scottish Government has provided a combined total of over £1 billion to support communities through the pandemic. This includes more than £550 million delivered through the Communities Funding Package. This investment has been allocated across councils, local services and directly to community and third sector organisations for a range of initiatives supporting those in need.

Investment for community groups and third sector organisations working locally in our communities has been delivered through a range of funds including the Third Sector Resilience Fund, Wellbeing Fund, Supporting Communities Fund and the Community and Third Sector Recovery Programme, which is being supported with a further £14 million in 2021-22. Details of these programmes and the type of support they delivered are available on the SCVO website at Coronavirus Third Sector Information Hub – SCVO . Scottish Government worked with SCVO to develop the Coronavirus Third Sector Information Hub supporting community groups with a single point of access for information and guidance about the pandemic and the funding available.

Further information on the distribution of the investment delivered through the Community Funding Package is available on the Community Mapping tool at: Community Funding Mapping (arcgis.com)

This additional investment has been made over and above the existing programmes supporting community-led regeneration and support for the third sector including the Empowering Communities Programme and the new £30 million Third Sector Growth Fund, announced on 21 March. The Investing in Communities Fund, part of the Empowering Communities Programme has provided essential flexibility for organisations throughout the pandemic to meet the needs of their communities and will continue to support community groups as we emerge and recover. It enables communities to decide on their own terms how to address local challenges, supporting community engagement, participation and empowerment for example through Participatory Budgeting. The Third Sector Growth Fund will focus on those organisations with the potential to grow, contributing to jobs and making a positive contribution in our communities as we go into a period of recovery.

Our Place Based Investment Programme will build on the strong partnership approach of the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund and the Town Centre Fund supported with £325 million over the next five years. This capital programme will be a key mechanism in tackling inequality and disadvantage and supporting renewal and recovery in our communities. The Programme, working with COSLA and Local Authorities, will contribute to delivering our joint ambitions for net zero, wellbeing and inclusive economic development, 20 Minute Neighbourhoods, town centres, the place principle, and community involvement and ownership.

On 18 March, the COSLA President and I issued a joint statement on progress with the Local Governance Review. The statement is accompanied by new Democracy Matters material. This outlines how ambitious new community decision-making arrangements, with potentially significant powers and resources, could work in practice.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/local-governance-review-joint-statement-2/

Social Security Scotland was established in September 2018.

The number of carers in receipt of Carer's Allowance Supplement in Dundee City by financial year are:

In 2020-2021 we have invested the following funding to drugs services and projects in Dundee:

• £4,366,586 to NHS Tayside covering Dundee, Perth and Kinross and Angus to support the delivery of alcohol and drug services
• £498,274 to Dundee City from the Programme for Government Local Improvement Fund
• £256,859 to Dundee City from the Programme for Government to support the 6 priorities of the Drug Deaths Taskforce
• £256,859 to Dundee based projects delivered by third-sector organisations through the Programme for Government challenge fund
• £153,980 to Dundee Alcohol and Drug Partnership from the additional £5 million funding announced for this financial year by the First Minister
• £130,764 to the University of Dundee from the Drugs Deaths Taskforce Research Fund

We have declared that a national mission is required to tackle drug-related death and have committed additional funding of £50 million per year over the next session of parliament.

Details of funding to NHS Boards can be found here - https://www.gov.scot/publications/alcohol-and-drug-partnerships-funding-allocations/

Details of Dundee’s additional Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP) allocation can be found here - Alcohol and drug partnerships: additional funding 2020-2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)