Correspondence Jun. 05 2024

Found: E: scottish.ministers @gov.scot  Edward Mountain MSP Convener Net Zero, Energy, and Transport

Mentions:
1: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) hospital that was attended by cross-party MSPs, local councillors, community organisations and statutory - Speech Link
2: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) Does that mean that he thinks that there should have been less for local government? - Speech Link
3: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) We know that, when we cut local government spending, that back-loads on to the NHS. - Speech Link
4: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) Those portfolios will include education, housing, communities and transport, and the efforts will be - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) What do you understand to be the main barriers to local authorities and transport partnerships in using - Speech Link
2: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) It was a genuinely open question in the sense that, when we hear from local authorities and transport - Speech Link
3: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) How concerned are you that, due to the financial pressure on local government, we see more councils reducing - Speech Link
4: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) Scotland’s 32 local authorities have all submitted their plans to Transport Scotland. - Speech Link
5: Macpherson, Ben (SNP - Edinburgh Northern and Leith) and local government on what investment needs to go into busy key roads in our city centres. - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: Adamson, Clare (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) concerns about proposals to increase the minimum distance between school and home for which school transport - Speech Link
2: McCall, Roz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) In the words of the Child Accident Prevention Trust, child safety week is an“annual community education - Speech Link
3: Don, Natalie (SNP - Renfrewshire North and West) risks.Alongside promoting the topic as part of the annual child safety week, CAPT has, in previous years, run community-based - Speech Link

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