Loans or grants allocated under each of the loan streams by the local authority: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for: 

1. How many loans or grants were allocated under each of the loan streams identified, broken down by the local authority in which each applicant resides/each loan or grant was allocated (select one as appropriate). If you do not possess this data by local authority, please provide it by region. 

2. Regarding used domestic EVs in particular, please detail how many used EVs these loans will have supported, broken down by local authority, or by region if you do not hold this data by local authority. 

3. Under which loan stream funding has been provided for car clubs, as detailed in this article: Scotland reissues grant funding for e-car clubs and used EVs - electrive.com Regarding car clubs, please detail how many schemes these loans will have supported, broken down by local authority, or by region if you do not hold this data by local authority. 

4. Whether this funding allocation has been exhausted; if so, please detail the allocation of the £4,308,105 not accounted for in this table (out of the £30m announced for 2022/23 by the Scottish Government); if not, please indicate whether it is still possible to apply for funding under the relevant schemes

Response

I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested in the format you asked for.

The answer to your question are: 

1. In 2022/2023 the LCTL was refocused to support the purchase of used EVs, no applications for new Domestics EVs were accepted but outstanding claims were still being processed and paid out during this time, these claims are listed under Domestic in the table below. 

	Loan Streams 2022/2023
Local Authority/Region	Business	Domestic	SoT	Used EV Domestic	Used EV Business	Grand Total
Aberdeen City	2	6	4	19	3	34
Aberdeenshire	2	21	1	30	4	58
Angus	1	12	0	7	2	22
Argyll and Bute	2	3	0	9	2	16
City of Edinburgh	7	34	12	65	5	123
Clackmannanshire	0	2	0	5	0	7
Dumfries and Galloway	0	10	0	12	1	23
Dundee City	1	3	1	19	1	25
East Ayrshire	0	3	0	6	4	13
East Dunbartonshire	4	19	4	11	1	39
East Lothian	0	8	2	25	0	35
East Renfrewshire	0	15	3	15	2	35
Falkirk	2	6	0	14	1	23
Fife	3	19	1	27	0	50
Glasgow City	10	25	8	40	5	88
Highland	6	10	0	13	2	31
Inverclyde	0	3	0	9	0	12
Midlothian	0	10	4	18	0	32
Moray	0	5	0	6	0	11
Na H-Eileanan Siar	2	2	0	2	0	6
North Ayrshire	0	3	0	6	1	10
North Lanarkshire	2	7	5	25	0	39
Orkney Islands	0	0	0	2	1	3
Perth and Kinross	2	11	1	25	4	43
Renfrewshire	4	12	6	11	2	35
Scottish Borders	3	10	0	15	1	29
Shetland Islands	2	2	0	1	0	5
South Ayrshire	5	4	1	9	1	20
South Lanarkshire	6	16	3	33	3	61
Stirling	5	9	0	30	0	44
West Dunbartonshire	0	3	0	3	0	6
West Lothian	2	21	2	20	0	45
Grand Total	73	314	58	532	46	1023

The Hackney loan stopped in 2020/2021 and no Hackney loans were paid in 2022/2023, therefore I have removed it from the above table. 

2. This information is available in the table above. 

3. The zero emission car club projects were funding through the Plugged-in Households (now Plugged- in Communities) grant fund and not the LCTL. A breakdown by local authority area can be found in the table below. 

Local Authority	Number of Projects	Number of Vehicles	Total Funds
Aberdeen	1	3	£31,654.60
Aberdeenshire	2	4	£50,129.60
Edinburgh City	1	8	£88,800.00
Fife	1	10	£87,000.00
Glasgow City	4	29	£387,200.49
Highlands	1	1	£26,784.36
Midlothian	1	5	£70,838.34
Orkney	1	3	£38,233.20
Renfrewshire	1	2	£95,067.98
Grand Total	13	65	£875,708.57

4. The full budget for the Low Carbon Transport Loan and Plugged-in Communities fund (£30m in total) has been fully allocated for 2022/2023 and the schemes are now closed to new applications, the outstanding balance from the original budget will be drawn down by individuals and businesses once they have confirmed delivery dates for the handover of the vehicle and have submitted the appropriate documentation to Energy Saving Trust for payment. 

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