Mentions:
1: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) million across this year and next year to expand access to childcare services within six early adopter community - Speech Link
2: Briggs, Miles (Con - Lothian) Why are local authorities saying that they cannot deliver their statutory duties because of this Government - Speech Link
3: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) Has the Scottish Government modelled the impact of local authority funding on the tackling child poverty - Speech Link
4: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) child poverty lies not only with the Scottish Government but with our local authority partners and, - Speech Link
5: Wishart, Beatrice (LD - Shetland Islands) needs to be“developed with an anti-poverty lens”.In light of that and in addition to the early adopter community - Speech Link

Correspondence Jun. 04 2024

Found: Committee   (Wednesday,  September  15, 2021) on Fisheries and Aquacultureiii and the Net Zero, Energy and Transport

S6W-27492

Asked by: Regan, Ash (Alba Party - Edinburgh Eastern)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what financial support is currently offered to (a) local authorities, (b) community organisations, (c) local charities and (d) voluntary groups for public electric vehicle (EV) charging points, and whether it will provide a breakdown of the support provided for public EV charging points in each of the last three financial years.

Answered by Hyslop, Fiona - Minister for Transport

Since 2011 Scottish Ministers have invested over £65 million in public EV charging. Scotland now has over 5,000 public EV charge points and is on target to have 6,000 public EV charge points by 2026, through a combination of public and increasing private sector investment. Scotland has the best provision of public EV charge points per head of population of anywhere in the UK, outside of London, and the most rapid charge points per head of population of any region in the UK.

Transport Scotland has also to-date provided £5.7 million to support the installation of 18,861 domestic charge points and £10.8 million to support 1,432 higher powered workplace charge points, complementing the public network.

In June 2023 the Scottish Government published its Vision for Scotland’s Public Electric Vehicle Charging Network, highlighting the need for a transition towards a public charging network that is largely financed and delivered by the private sector. In 2024, the private sector is forecast to invest £40 million to £55 million in public EV charging in Scotland.

The Government is investing a further £30 million through our EV infrastructure fund, supporting Local Authorities across Scotland, and prioritising areas of Scotland that are less likely to attract private investment, including rural and island communities.

Since 21-22, the Scottish Government has provided over £15 million of financial support to Local Authorities to support the installing of public EV charge points.

Report May. 31 2024

Found: The Committee gathered initial evidence from the Petitioner , the Minister for Transport, community councils

Mentions:
1: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) I hope that our local government partners share that goal. - Speech Link
2: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) Government is offering £145.5 million to local authorities to protect teacher numbers. - Speech Link
3: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) Gilruth, along with the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, to be present at the opening of Levenmouth - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: MacGregor, Fulton (SNP - Coatbridge and Chryston) To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that local authorities are able to - Speech Link
2: Ewing, Annabelle (SNP - Cowdenbeath) would welcome greater support than they have had to date.Looking to the immediate future, with many community - Speech Link
3: Simpson, Graham (Con - Central Scotland) To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to take forward the recommendations in the Transport Scotland - Speech Link
4: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) education and empowerment to create sustainable societal and behavioural change as part of a broader community - Speech Link
5: Beattie, Colin (SNP - Midlothian North and Musselburgh) does the Scottish Government agree that encouraging the use of public transport should not equal restricting - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: None Modelling can be supplemented by local data. - Speech Link
2: Balfour, Jeremy (Con - Lothian) Which other budget would you take that money from—healthcare, education or transport? - Speech Link
3: None We argue that not only should local taxation be looked at to expand revenue, but, down the line, there - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: None success in recent years has been to do with its ability to diversify and to establish strong roots in the community - Speech Link
2: None commercially.The importance of Prestwick remaining an airport and an aviation asset that is rooted in the community - Speech Link
3: None We have been working closely with our colleagues in transport throughout the process. - Speech Link
4: None Those assets are very important for the local economies. They are very different assets. - Speech Link

Found: There are some exceptions in relation to transport.