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Domestic Rural, Island and Cross-Pavement Charging Grant (£3.45 million): assisting lower-income households and those without access to off-street parking to install home or cross-pavement charging solutions. Factored Development Charge Point Fund (£2 million): enabling communal EV charging infrastructure in flatted and high-density developments, addressing long-standing barriers to equitable access.
It is essential that we have a just transition as we move from carbon-based developments into renewable energies. The national transition training fund has continued funding into next year precisely to provide the opportunity to reskill and upskill.
The Scottish Government will continue to encourage that work through the developing the young workforce programme and our work in the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council and Skills Development Scotland.
We are also working with Norway, which introduced a decentralised funding scheme to develop a collaborative approach to training and capacity building at the local level and at the school level.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 March 2018
We are working closely with delivery partners, including representative bodies andproviders across the country, to as we develop the new Funding Follows the Child approach and the National Standard for all funded providers, which will underpin it.
See www.lobbying.scot St Andrew’s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG www.gov.scot LAs have been required to develop a SEP before being provided with funding for delivery to ensure value for public funding in the complex and rapidly evolving market for E...
Is the minister satisfied that the level of funding is adequate, given the examples from elsewhere and the fact that the low level of funding has been the most commonly cited issue?