Funding committed to the Air Quality Fund: EIR release

FOI reference: FOI/18/01798
Date received: 18 June 2018
Date responded: 29 June 2018

Information requested

The amount committed by the Scottish Government to the Air Quality Fund referenced on page 57 of the Programme for Government; for the amount of money that had been paid out through the Fund has paid out to date; for (if it does not break the cost limits) a list of payees that have received funding from the Fund and for the business case for the Fund.

Response

The information you requested is as follows:

£1.2 million has been committed to the Air Quality Fund in 2018/19. No money has been paid out to date but £719,600 has been awarded. The following table summarises the awards and the projects for which the funding has been awarded.

Local authority	Project	Awarded (£)
Dundee	I-Bike continuation	28,600
	Development of a greater city centre Paramics traffic model	200,000
	Refurbishment of real time bus shelter displays	70,000
	Contribution to sustainable travel network improvement fund – for footways, off road paths, cycle paths and bus stop infrastructure	25,000
Glasgow	On street cycle parking	22,000
	Contribution to permeable streets programme – small scale infrastructure falling outwith defined budgets e.g. cycle paths	60,000
North Lanarkshire	Cross North/South Lanarkshire cycling infrastructure with focus on Raith Interchange	7,500
	Cycling and walking signage on routes accessing Strathclyde Park	10,000
Perth & Kinross	I-Bike continuation	20,000
	Cycle parking and lockers for public use	12,000
	Crieff traffic data survey/modelling and air quality modelling	112,000
South Lanarkshire	Cross North/South Lanarkshire cycling infrastructure with focus on Raith Interchange	7,500
	Upgrade to park and ride provision at Lanark bus/rail interchange	50,000
	East Kilbride cycle network extension	50,000
	Upgrade and promotion of EV charging infrastructure	25,000
	Installation of eco-signage in Lanark and Rutherglen	20,000
Total		719,600

The business case for the Air Quality Fund is to support the Cleaner Air for Scotland strategy commitment to make significant progress towards revocation of all Air Quality Management Areas by 2020.

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