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As the flowing table shows, for the 5-years 2016-2020 (latest data available), the estimates of direct jobs in renewable electricity increased from 5,000 to 6,800, an increase of 36% over the period.
The updated plan includes over 100 new policies and provides a clear and credible pathway to meeting our emissions reductions targets over the period to 2032.
Islands programme Expected reduction in funding The Scottish Government’s ‘Outcome of the Targeted Review of the Capital Spending Review – Updated Spending Allocations for 2023-24 to 2025-26’ showed no budget for islands in 2024-25.
We do not have any figures, and we probably will not have any until the testing is complete and the first live canvass is run in 2020, with the new model. It is expected to benefit people who would have been reluctant to reply to the old paper forms or household visits.
It will not be easy, but we are engaging closely with industry on how best it can use the Scottish industrial energy transformation fund and the manufacturing fund to best effect.
I am more than happy to look at every potential opportunity to make the best use of the funding that we have to make it work in the best way possible, which goes back to the point that I made at the start.