Almost £1.4bn of local growth projects confirmed across Scotland

Thursday, 7 November 2024 17:48

Following last week's Budget, Scottish Secretary Ian Murray has written to all local authorities in Scotland to confirm their funding allocations for local growth projects. Mr Murray confirmed the UK Government will be investing nearly £1.4 billion in dozens of important local growth projects across Scotland over the next 10 years, ensuring that economic growth is seen the length and breadth of the country. Mr Murray said: Growth is a key mission for this...Request free trial

Following last week's Budget, Scottish Secretary Ian Murray has written to all local authorities in Scotland to confirm their funding allocations for local growth projects.

Mr Murray confirmed the UK Government will be investing nearly £1.4 billion in dozens of important local growth projects across Scotland over the next 10 years, ensuring that economic growth is seen the length and breadth of the country.

Mr Murray said:

Growth is a key mission for this government and a top priority for the Scotland Office. The Chancellor delivered a Budget that will herald an era of growth for Scotland, rebuild our public services and begin a decade of national renewal.

This is a historic Budget for Scotland which chooses investment over decline, and delivers on the promise that there would be no return to austerity. I am pleased that we are now able to confirm our commitment to invest nearly £1.4 billion into important local projects across Scotland over the next 10 years.

Over the summer I wrote to every local authority to set out our commitment to building strong and trusted relationships so that together we can deliver the change our country needs. I am pleased to be able to write to them again to confirm their funding allocations. I look forward to working with Scotland's local authorities in the coming weeks and months on a renewed approach for delivering the UK Government's missions in all parts of Scotland.

Also last week the Chancellor confirmed the Scottish Government will receive Barnett Consequentials of £1.5 billion for 2024/25 and a further £3.4 billion for 2025/26. This will mean a record £47.7 billion settlement in 2025/26 - the largest in real terms in the history of devolution.

The Scottish Government will also receive additional funding when the UK Government allocates the funding set aside for Employer National Insurance Contributions support to UK Government departments. Scottish local authorities have also been given further information on the future of structural funding, currently provided by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). The Budget confirmed that £900 million is being made available across the UK to extend UKSPF into 2025/26. The UK Government will contact local authorities soon to confirm allocations.

Full list of projects confirmed by the Budget

Local Authority	Project	UKG award
South Ayrshire	Levelling Up Fund Round 3: Levelling Up For Ayrshire: Commercial and Low Carbon Infrastructure	£20,000,000
Glasgow City	LUF Round 3 Drumchapel Town Centre Regeneration	£14,979,646
Moray	LUF Round 3 Elgin City Centre Masterplan: Levelling Up Moray	£18,291,000
North Ayrshire	LUF Round 3 Levelling Up For Ayrshire: Commercial and Low Carbon Infrastructure	£17,456,821
Dumfries And Galloway	LUF Round 3 Dumfries and Galloway Transport Bid	£13,752,000
South Lanarkshire	LUF Round 3 National Business District: Shawfield - Remediation and Development	£14,637,600
Shetland	LUF Round 2: Fair Isle Ferry	£26,762,313
North Ayrshire	LUF Round 1: Infrastructure Improvements on B714	£23,693,443
Renfrewshire	LUF Round 1: AMIDS South	£38,725,218
North Ayrshire	Long Term Plan for Towns programme: Irvine	£20,000,000
Inverclyde	Long Term Plan for Towns programme: Greenock	£20,000,000
East Ayrshire	Long Term Plan for Towns programme: Kilmarnock	£20,000,000
North Lanarkshire	Long Term Plan for Towns programme: Coatbridge	£20,000,000
West Dunbartonshire	Long Term Plan for Towns programme: Clydebank	£20,000,000
Moray	Long Term Plan for Towns programme: Elgin	£20,000,000
Dumfries and Galloway	Long Term Plan for Towns programme: Dumfries	£20,000,000
Angus	Long Term Plan for Towns programme: Arbroath	£20,000,000
Aberdeenshire	Long Term Plan for Towns programme: Peterhead	£20,000,000
Orkney	Long Term Plan for Towns programme: Kirkwall	£20,000,000
Dundee	Former Levelling Up Partnership location	£20,250,000
Scottish Borders	Former Levelling Up Partnership location	£20,250,000
Argyll & Bute	Former Levelling Up Partnership location	£20,250,000
Western Isles	Former Levelling Up Partnership location	£20,250,000
Glasgow City Region	Investment Zone	£160,000,000
North East Scotland	Investment Zone	£160,000,000
Highland	Cromarty Green Freeport	£26,000,000
Falkirk, Fife, Edinburgh	Forth Green Freeport	£26,000,000
Argyll & Bute	Argyll & Bute Rural Growth Deal	£25,000,000
Scotland-wide	Confirming funding remains available for all Non-Full Business Case approved Deal projects (i.e. those not in delivery yet) - this is a commitment to complete the Deals programme in Scotland	£492,000,000
Total		£1.36 billion

*Any Levelling Up Fund projects not listed in the table have already been confirmed or are in delivery, and remain unaffected by the Budget, with full UKG commitment.

*The overview does not include confirmed and in delivery Community Ownership Fund projects in Scotland, which are progressed by community groups rather than local authorities. These also remain unaffected by the Budget, with full UKG commitment.