Cycling Walking Safer Streets (CWSS) funding breakdown: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for:

Figures on the amount of funding awarded to each local authority in Scotland for active travel initiatives in each of the last five years, including this year to date (i.e. including the most recent awards of funding from Places for Everyone/Community Links Plus). This could include funding for developing proposals, as well as for construction etc. A breakdown of the funding (e.g. planning vs. construction) would be helpful.

With a later clarification provided:

The funding awarded for all initiatives within each local authority area, as opposed to just funding to local authorities themselves.

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.

I have provided a breakdown of the Cycling Walking Safer Streets (CWSS) funding that the Scottish Government allocates to local authorities as part of the Local Government Settlement:

CWSS Allocation To Local Authorities From 2015/16 To 2019/20
CWSS ALLOCATION	2015-2016	2016-2017	2017-2018	2018-2019	2019-2020	Totals
Local Authority	£000's	£000's	£000's	£000's	£000's	£000,s
Aberdeen City	338	251	316	313	374	1592
Aberdeenshire	384	286	359	357	428	1814
Angus	174	128	160	159	191	812
Argyll & Bute	131	96	119	119	143	608
Clackmannanshire	78	56	70	70	84	358
Dumfries & Galloway	228	164	205	204	244	1045
Dundee City	223	162	203	202	243	1033
East Ayrshire	185	134	167	166	199	851
East Dunbartonshire	160	117	147	147	177	758
East Lothian	151	112	141	142	171	717
East Renfrewshire	137	101	127	128	155	648
Edinburgh, city of	729	540	683	691	834	3477
Eilean Siar	41	30	37	37	45	190
Falkirk	236	173	217	217	261	1104
Fife	552	403	504	504	607	2570
Glasgow City	897	657	831	837	1011	4233
Highland	349	255	321	320	384	1629
Inverclyde	121	88	109	108	129	555
Midlothian	127	94	120	121	146	608
Moray	139	104	131	131	157	662
North Ayrshire	207	150	186	185	222	950
North Lanarkshire	507	370	463	462	556	2358
Orkney	32	24	30	30	36	152
Perth & Kinross	223	163	205	205	247	1043
Renfrewshire	262	191	239	239	289	1220
Scottish Borders	171	125	156	156	188	796
Shetland	35	25	32	31	37	160
South Ayrshire	170	123	154	153	184	784
South Lanarkshire	474	346	433	432	520	2205
Stirling	138	100	127	128	153	646
West Dunbartonshire	137	98	123	122	147	627
West Lothian	265	194	245	245	296	1245
Totals	8,000,000	5,861,000	7,360,000	7,360,000	8,858,000	3,743,9000

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.

However, you may wish to contact the Scottish Government’s delivery partner organisations who may be able to help you with information on the funds and projects that they administer on our behalf:

• Sustrans Scotland, scotland@sustrans.org.uk
• Cycling Scotland, https://www.cycling.scot/contact-us
• Energy Saving Trust, https://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/about-us/contact-us
• Paths for All, info@pathsforall.org.uk
• Cycling UK, cycling@cyclinguk.org
• Living Streets, Scotland@livingstreets.org.uk
• Forth Environment Link, info@forthenvironmentlink.org

While these organisations should be able to help you with your request, they are not subject to FOISA and are not legally bound to respond.

The reasons why we don’t have the information are explained in the Annex to this letter.

Reasons for not providing information - Annex
The Scottish Government does not have the information

Section 17(1) of FOISA (information not held) requires the Scottish Government to notify you if it does not have the information you requested.  

The Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have asked for because, while it receives regular reports on the performance of delivery organisation funds and projects, these reports do not contain an overview of funding awarded by local authority area.

When the Scottish Government requires detailed information on active travel project funding within local authority area, a request is made to delivery organisations for this information.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.

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