Question reference: S5W-35694
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 3 March 2021
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Current status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 17 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £50 million town centre regeneration fund, which was announced in 2019 has been spent, broken down by local authority area, and how much of the funding has come from (a) its budget (b) the budgets of local authorities.
Answer
Local authorities have received all of the £50 million Scottish Government funding for the 2019-20 capital Town Centre Fund from its budget. Allocations are set out below.
In February 2020, Ministers agreed to extend the expenditure and project completion deadlines for the fund to 31 March 2021 and 30 September 2021 respectively. An update on expenditure will be available in April 2021 following the submission of end of financial year monitoring returns by local authorities. Final monitoring returns will be submitted by October 2021, and will provide a complete breakdown of expenditure by budget for all projects.
Local Authority | SG Budget Allocation (£) |
Aberdeen City | 1,351,000 |
Aberdeenshire | 3,286,000 |
Angus | 1,080,000 |
Argyll and Bute | 1,242,000 |
City of Edinburgh | 2,613,000 |
Clackmannanshire | 683,000 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 1,529,000 |
Dundee City | 735,000 |
East Ayrshire | 1,701,000 |
East Dunbartonshire | 944,000 |
East Lothian | 1,275,000 |
East Renfrewshire | 981,000 |
Falkirk | 1,976,000 |
Fife | 4,335,000 |
Glasgow City | 3,010,000 |
Highland | 2,965,000 |
Inverclyde | 660,000 |
Midlothian | 910,000 |
Moray | 1,233,000 |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | 223,000 |
North Ayrshire | 1,418,000 |
North Lanarkshire | 3,250,000 |
Orkney Islands | 200,000 |
Perth and Kinross | 1,983,000 |
Renfrewshire | 1,459,000 |
Scottish Borders | 1,421,000 |
Shetland Islands | 205,000 |
South Ayrshire | 1,064,000 |
South Lanarkshire | 2,506,000 |
Stirling | 1,077,000 |
West Dunbartonshire | 859,000 |
West Lothian | 1,826,000 |
Scotland | 50,000,000 |