Low Carbon Transport Loan Fund and E-bike Grant fund breakdown by region: EIR release

Information requested

You asked for a breakdown of the Low Carbon Transport Loan Fund; a breakdown of spend of the E-bike Grant fund; and for this information to be broken down by Scottish Parliamentary region and project type for 2018.

Response

As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations.  We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA. 

This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’.  Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.  We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes.  This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

• A breakdown of the Low Carbon Transport Loan Fund.

Please note - we do not hold data based on Scottish parliamentary region so have therefore split by local authority instead.

	Loan Stream
Local Authority	Business	Domestic	Hackney	Switched on Taxis
Aberdeen City	£391,916	£576,269
Aberdeenshire	£396,505	£1,409,572
Angus	£78,274	£230,331	£35,445
Argyll & Bute	£132,079	£295,423
Clackmannanshire	£21,715	£126,518
Dumfries & Galloway	£122,153	£204,910
Dundee City	£391,829	£228,307
East Ayrshire	£105,000	£108,081	£56,995
East Dunbartonshire	£400,846	£622,020	£647,667
East Lothian	£571,841	£710,737	£545,820
East Renfrewshire	£161,127	£540,290	£350,267
Edinburgh, City of	£1,576,763	£2,175,903	£5,090,381	£59,699
Eilean Siar	£27,221	£57,943
Falkirk	£123,375	£517,970	£67,690
Fife	£687,812	£1,026,089	£170,640
Glasgow City	£1,003,575	£904,137	£2,747,655
Highland	£634,783	£1,374,780
Inverclyde	£225,000	£60,000
Midlothian	£189,881	£567,449	£1,200,656	£116,798
Moray	£67,880	£288,071
North Ayrshire	£35,000	£221,649	£86,135
North Lanarkshire	£158,151	£422,397	£711,759
Orkney Islands	£68,116	£259,223
Perth & Kinross	£418,721	£900,281
Renfrewshire	£287,380	£416,499	£201,512
Scottish Borders	£192,647	£792,959	£77,400
Shetland Islands	£4,164	£66,990
South Ayrshire	£139,269	£229,904
South Lanarkshire	£486,344	£899,127	£674,951
Stirling	£363,531	£384,824	£83,445
West Dunbartonshire	£127,750	£139,309	£88,045
West Lothian	£323,654	£613,927	£659,343
Total	£9,914,302	£17,371,888	£13,495,807	£176,497
Overall Total				£40,958,493

These figures reflect actual funds paid out at the end of the financial year and will not always equate to the total funding made available. Due to long lead-in times for electric vehicles, the remaining funding  was paid in subsequent years once the customer was in receipt of the vehicle.

• A breakdown of spend of the E-bike Grant fund.

Please note - we do not hold data based on Scottish parliamentary region so have therefore split by local authority instead.

eBike Grant Fund

Local Authority	Funding paid
Aberdeen City	£18,207
Aberdeenshire	£11,917
Dundee	£24,452
Edinburgh	£286,646
Fife	£8,720
Glasgow	£86,708
Highland	£18,701
Moray	£2,924
Nan Eilean Siar	£14,462
North Ayrshire	£11,707
North Lanarkshire	£11,059
Perth and Kinross	£12,412
Shetland	£8,874
South Lanarkshire	£40,831
Stirling	£35,551
West Dunbartonshire	£5,681
West Lothian	£6,492
Overall Total	£605,492

Note - the eBike Grant does not have a clear 'project type' to breakdown by, therefore only local authority has been provided

• This information to be broken down by Scottish Parliamentary region and project type.

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