FOI/202100246559 · FOI · not held
Breakdown of active travel routes funding: FOI release
Information requested
Please can you advise how many miles of new active travel paths have been delivered across Scotland and how much this has cost in the last 5 years? Can you break this down by returns from local authorities to see which areas are delivering more routes? Can you also please advise what funding e.g. through Sustrans, is being used by local authorities to help deliver these projects? I’m looking to get a general sense of how much annual investment is delivering in terms of tangible output to the local and national networks, and where it’s working best and worst across the country. I’m also trying to get a sense of how much is tied up in pipelines and understand the delivery timescale for turnaround on projects. Appreciate that each project will have specific costs and peculiarities but just looking for the aggregated headline figures nationally and per local authority in the first instance.
Response
The Scottish Government does not hold information on how many miles of new active travel paths have been delivered across Scotland broken down by local authority. However, you may wish to contact individual Local Authorities for this information. We only hold information on the cost of completed Places for Everyone infrastructure projects over 2019/20-2021/22, as this programme is administered by Sustrans Scotland. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. I enclose below some of the information you requested. Sustrans Places for Everyone programme infrastructure funding:
Year Capital Grant Funding Awarded to Sustrans Scotland 2021/22 £69,844,971.00 2020/21 £61,020,946.00 2019/20 £55,349,870.00 2018/19 £54,620,685.00 2017/18 £25,921,390.00 Total £266,757,862.00
Cycling, Walking, Safer Routes infrastructure funding:
Year Amount Awarded to Local Authorities 2021/22 £23,927,000.00 2020/21 £23,927,000.00 2019/20 £8,858,000.00 2018/19 £736,000.00 2017/18 £736,000.00 Total £58,184,000.00
Places for Everyone - completed Active Travel project investment:
2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 Aberdeen City Council £598,986 £111,722 £163,094 Aberdeenshire Council £21,360 £15,571 £54,500 Angus Council £36,186 £108,369 £311,631 Argyll & Bute Council £133,568 £357,931 £641,853 City of Edinburgh Council £3,401,435 £5,414,154 £25,135,694 Clackmannanshire Council £471,969 £360,273 £1,326,920 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) £ - £ - £ - Dumfries and Galloway Council £181,071 £56,951 £565,460 Dundee City Council £368,689 £526,911 £4,273,436 East Ayrshire Council £ - £10,000 £90,000 East Dunbartonshire Council £ - £206,648 £18,352 East Lothian Council £90,153 £388,205 £139,159 East Renfrewshire Council £405,774 £84,779 £106,577 Falkirk Council £55,282 £265,980 £ - Fife Council £7,384 £ - £186,644 Glasgow City Council £3,290,388 £3,566,907 £5,469,606 Inverclyde Council £32,947 £8,367 £68,686 Midlothian Council £ - £ - £40,000 Moray Council £ - £8,540 £27,000 North Ayrshire Council £154,163 £431,195 £849,539 North Lanarkshire Council £76,820 £186,132 £4,907 Orkney Islands Council £126,005 £16,073 £437,213 Perth and Kinross Council £33,772 £ - £400,000 Renfrewshire Council £26,486 £146,099 £295,431 Scottish Borders Council £172,761 £2,105,889 £7,282,211 Shetland Island Council £ - £57,790 £ - South Ayrshire Council £375,528 £658,669 £1,681,691 South Lanarkshire Council £58,785 £101,719 £266,945 Stirling Council £282,997 £716,828 £752,799 The Highland Council £262,759 £646,307 £3,815,606 West Dunbartonshire Council £ - £1,261,383 £1,155,000 West Lothian Council £60,131 £698,577 £131,858
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This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.
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