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Press release: Almost £1.4bn of local growth projects confirmed across Scotland

Scotland Office

November 7
00:00 2024

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Following last weeks 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 Scotlands local authorities in the coming weeks and months on a renewed approach for delivering the UK Governments 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 extendUKSPFinto 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,

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