The Scottish Government has not withdrawn Fairer Scotland Funding (FSF) from the Capital City Partnership. The Community Planning Partnership for Edinburgh, The Edinburgh Partnership, was awarded £22.798 million from the Fairer Scotland Fund from 2008-11 to work together to tackle area-based and individual poverty, and to help more people access and sustain employment opportunities. The ring fence from the Fairer Scotland Fund (FSF) was removed in 2010-11 to provide local partners with increased flexibility in how to use resources to tackle local priorities. The regeneration resources associated with the former FSF have been retained and maintained within the 2011-12 local government finance settlement.

In addition the Scottish Government has been able to maintain the overall share of the budget for local government at 34.5%, the same as 2010-11.

Any consultation on future funding for local projects is the responsibility of local partners.

Allocations of the Fairer Scotland Fund to each local authority area for 2009 and 2010-11 are as follows.

Local Authority Area	Funding in 2009-10	Funding in 2010-11
	(£ Million)	(£ Million)
Aberdeen City	2.481	2.843
Aberdeenshire	1.038	1.286
Angus	0.988	1.24
Argyll and Bute	0.965	1.104
Clackmannanshire	2.043	2.263
Dumfries and Galloway	1.634	1.694
Dundee City	8.286	8.131
East Ayrshire	4.621	4.589
East Dunbartonshire	0.523	0.621
East Lothian	0.413	0.546
East Renfrewshire	0.575	0.526
Edinburgh, City of	7.599	7.554
Eilean Siar	0.545	0.5
Falkirk	1.955	2.212
Fife	4.692	5.675
Glasgow City	51.491	51.969
Highland	1.959	2.354
Inverclyde	6.125	5.78
Midlothian	0.718	0.817
Moray	0.422	0.5
North Ayrshire	5.427	5.258
North Lanarkshire	14.339	13.19
Orkney Islands	0.345	0.5
Perth and Kinross	0.847	1.2
Renfrewshire	6.348	5.654
Scottish Borders	0.527	0.739
Shetland Islands	0.348	0.5
South Ayrshire	1.452	1.67
South Lanarkshire	8.164	6.117
Stirling	0.752	0.906
West Dunbartonshire	5.507	5.067
West Lothian	1.88	1.993
Total	145	145

 

It is for each Community Planning Partnership to decide the balance of investment between tackling area-based and individual poverty, and helping more people access and sustain employment opportunities.

The Scottish Government has not withdrawn Fairer Scotland Funding from the Capital City Partnership. The Community Planning Partnership for Edinburgh, The Edinburgh Partnership, was awarded £22.798 million from the Fairer Scotland Fund from 2008-11 to work together to tackle area-based and individual poverty, and to help more people access and sustain employment opportunities. The ring fence from the Fairer Scotland Fund (FSF) was removed in 2010-11 to provide local partners with increased flexibility in how to use resources to tackle local priorities. The regeneration resources associated with the former FSF have been retained and maintained within the 2011-12 local government finance settlement.

The Minister for Housing and Communities, Alex Neil, wrote to Councillor Tom Buchanan at City of Edinburgh Council on 21 December 2010 informing him that the Scottish Government were unable to continue additional dedicated central government support to the Edinburgh Partnership.

The Scottish Government has not withdrawn Fairer Scotland Funding from the Capital City Partnership. The Community Planning Partnership for Edinburgh, The Edinburgh Partnership, was awarded £22.798 million from the Fairer Scotland Fund from 2008-11 to work together to tackle area-based and individual poverty, and to help more people access and sustain employment opportunities. The ring fence from the Fairer Scotland Fund (FSF) was removed in 2010-11 to provide local partners with increased flexibility in how to use resources to tackle local priorities. The regeneration resources associated with the former FSF have been retained and maintained within the 2011-12 local government finance settlement.

In addition to this funding the Capital City Partnership in 2008-09 and the Edinburgh Partnership in 2009-11 were awarded an additional £2.238 million per year to address the strategic priorities for Edinburgh in respect of community regeneration, tackling poverty and improving employability.

In the face of unprecedented cuts from Westminster, the Scottish Government had to take tough decisions about expenditure across government and careful consideration of pressures and priorities in all portfolios. In these circumstances, it has not been possible to maintain this particular additional dedicated funding support.

The Scottish Government has not withdrawn Fairer Scotland Funding (FSF) from the Capital City Partnership. The Community Planning Partnership for Edinburgh, The Edinburgh Partnership, was awarded £22.798 million from the Fairer Scotland Fund from 2008-11 to work together to tackle area-based and individual poverty, and to help more people access and sustain employment opportunities. The ring fence from the Fairer Scotland Fund (FSF) was removed in 2010-11 to provide local partners with increased flexibility in how to use resources to tackle local priorities. The regeneration resources associated with the former FSF have been retained and maintained within the 2011-12 local government finance settlement.

The decision to end the additional support that the Edinburgh Partnership received to address the strategic priorities for Edinburgh in respect of community regeneration, tackling poverty and improving employability was taken in December 2010.

The Scottish Government has not withdrawn Fairer Scotland Funding from the Capital City Partnership. The Community Planning Partnership for Edinburgh, The Edinburgh Partnership, was awarded £22.798 million from the Fairer Scotland Fund from 2008-11 to work together to tackle area-based and individual poverty, and to help more people access and sustain employment opportunities. The ring fence from the Fairer Scotland Fund (FSF) was removed in 2010-11 to provide local partners with increased flexibility in how to use resources to tackle local priorities. The regeneration resources associated with the former FSF have been retained and maintained within the 2011-12 local government finance settlement.

In addition the Scottish Government has been able to maintain the overall share of the budget for local government at 34.5%, the same as 2010-11.

It is for local partners to consider the impact of investment decisions on client groups.

We will be working with the Capital City Partnership to explore alternative measures for funding projects.

The purpose of this report is to collate baseline information relevant to the development process, to assist developers interested in competing for the Saltire Prize to identify and develop projects rapidly. As its primary purpose is the provision of baseline information, it is not considered to be a qualifying plan or project under the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994, as amended for Scotland, which implement the EC Habitats Directive.

The National Renewables Infrastructure Fund is being administered by Scottish Enterprise (SE) and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Where funding is provided by SE or HIE to support infrastructure projects these will have been subject to the relevant consenting processes to ensure environmental impacts are addressed.

A valuation of the UK''s offshore renewable resource, published in May 2010, estimated that Scotland has 169 Gigawatts (GW) of practical offshore wind resource.

The Scottish Government also published a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the Draft Plan for Offshore Wind Energy in Scottish territorial waters for public consultation in May 2010. The SEA identified the potential for a likely significant effect on sites designated for their nature conservation interest at a European level. Accordingly, the Scottish Government is currently undertaking a Habitats Regulations Appraisal of the Draft Plan which will be complete by the end of January and will inform the preparation of the Final Plan for Offshore Wind. The Draft Plan proposed 10 short term options for development up to 2020 with a potential generation capacity of 6.5GW. The 10 short-term options have now been reduced to nine, due to irresolvable issues with radar impacts. The nine short-term options have a potential generation capacity of 5.8GW. The Draft Plan also proposed 25 areas of search, titled medium term options, for possible development beyond 2030. No generating capacity has been set for these areas of search and any possible areas in the longer term.

In addition, we are aware that the Crown Estate has agreed leases for two Round 3 sites in the Moray Firth and the Firth of Forth, beyond the Scottish Territorial Water limit of 12 nautical miles. These sites have a potential to generate a combined capacity of 4.8GW by 2020. The Crown Estate is currently undertaking a Habitats Regulations Appraisal of the Round 3 sites.

All offshore renewable energy projects are and will be subject to assessment under the relevant legislation to ensure that there is no adverse effect on European sites and species.