Question reference: S5W-25377
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 16 September 2019
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Current status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 19 September 2019
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much each local authority has been allocated from the Town Centre Fund, also broken by how this has been spent.
Answer
The £50 million Town Centre Fund was developed in partnership with COSLA and launched on 1 March. The fund has been distributed across all local authorities to enable them to stimulate and support a wide range of investments which encourage town centres and city neighbourhoods to diversify and flourish.
It is for local authorities to decide how to allocate funding in the context of the Town Centre First Principle and Town Centre Action Plan and, more recently, the Place Principle. These decisions should be based on an understanding of town centre performance and ownership, shared visions and plans; with the involvement of local communities, partners and stakeholders.
Town Centre Fund – Local Authority Allocation
Local Authority | 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 |