Active travel infrastructure investment: FOI release

Information requested

1. How much has Transport Scotland spent on cycle lanes in the last five years, with a breakdown per year and per project?

Response

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested. This is because project spend information we hold does not always disaggregate or identify distinct infrastructure types such as cycle lanes. We have recently published an Active Travel Infrastructure Investment Report for 2023-24, which may provide more of the information you are looking for. Furthermore, as outlined in the report, we are working with local authorities and delivery partners to improve our reporting processes, which enable greater transparency in future years.

Information we hold relating to the provision of recent cycle lane infrastructure that may be useful:

Financial Year	Funding Stream	Project Name	Spend
2023-24	Transport Scotland Active Travel Transformation Fund	Pitt Street	£500,000.00
2023-24 and 2024-25	Transport Scotland Active Travel Transformation Fund	Connecting Battlefield Phase 1	£1,718,447.18
2024-25	Transport Scotland Active Travel Infrastructure Fund Tier 2 (Construction)	Hairmyres Transport Interchange	£272,000.00
2023-24 and 2024-25	Transport Scotland Trunk Road Active Travel Infrastructure	A726 scheme segregated cycleway	£427,154.72

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

This 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 the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception. While we recognise that there may be some public interest in information about Transport Scotland funding for cycle lanes, we cannot provide information which we do not hold.

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