Question reference: S6W-10274
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 11 August 2022
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Current status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 5 September 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses (a) have signed up to and (b) are eligible for the Scotland Loves Local gift card scheme, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
All businesses with a bricks and mortar presence in their community are eligible to sign up, except for gambling and betting businesses. As of 16 August 2022, 3,839 businesses have signed up to the Scotland Loves Local Gift Card scheme. The table below details the number of businesses that have signed up to the scheme by local authority area.
Scotland Loves Local Registered Merchants | |||||
Aberdeen | 234 | ||||
Aberdeenshire | 112 | ||||
Angus | 35 | ||||
Argyll and Bute | 117 | ||||
Clackmannanshire | 14 | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | 92 | ||||
Dundee | 141 | ||||
East Ayrshire | 218 | ||||
East Dunbartonshire | 88 | ||||
East Lothian | 139 | ||||
East Renfrewshire | 51 | ||||
Edinburgh | 261 | ||||
Falkirk | 164 | ||||
Fife | 116 | ||||
Glasgow | 843 | ||||
Highland | 142 | ||||
Inverclyde | 16 | ||||
Midlothian | 31 | ||||
Moray | 119 | ||||
Na h-Eileanan an iar | 42 | ||||
North Ayrshire | 45 | ||||
North Lanarkshire | 75 | ||||
Orkney | 9 | ||||
Perth and Kinross | 170 | ||||
Renfrewshire | 120 | ||||
Scottish Borders | 32 | ||||
Shetland | 3 | ||||
South Ayrshire | 127 | ||||
South Lanarkshire | 102 | ||||
Stirling | 51 | ||||
West Dunbartonshire | 48 | ||||
West Lothian | 82 | ||||
3,839 | |||||