Specific spending commitments include—
providing “a further £200m (net) to the Scottish National Investment Bank, to ensure continuation and advancement of work to create jobs, support innovation and attract investment”,
investing over £7bn in infrastructure, including £150m for offshore wind, expanding regeneration funding to £62m to invest in communities across Scotland, £100m for continued rollout of digital connectivity programmes across Scotland, almost £1.1bn for rail services and infrastructure and maintenance of the rail network, over £237m investment in maintaining ports, harbours and ferry fleets, and £550m investment in safety, maintenance and improvements in the trunk road network,
continuing to invest over £2bn in Scotland’s colleges, universities, and skills development programmes,
providing £321m for the enterprise agencies to support Scottish businesses “to start and scale, be more productive, and access finance and attract investment”,
providing £15m to “expand support for female entrepreneurs and boost the economic impact of universities and fund the development of business clusters in advanced manufacturing and deeptech”, and
a “revitalised multi‑million Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund”.1Scottish Government. (2024).