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Written question asked by Kenny MacAskill (Scottish National Party) on Wednesday, 26 February 2020, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 2 March 2020. It was answered by Kelly Tolhurst (Conservative) on Wednesday, 4 March 2020 on behalf of the Department for Transport.


Ports: Scotland

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2020 to Question 2016, what funds (a) have been or (b) will be provided to the Scottish Government from the Ports Infrastructure and Connectivity and Resilience Fund as a (i) direct or (ii) consequential payment.

Answer

The Government announced on the 30 August 2019 £30m worth of funding for upgrades to port infrastructure, road and rail links and to build resilience within local government, which included the £10m Ports Infrastructure and Connectivity and Resilience Fund. This funding was related to English ports and Local Resilience Forums only.

As with all funding of this nature the Devolved Administrations received consequential allocations based on the Barnett formula directly related to the amount allocated to this port infrastructure funding package. The amount allocated to Scotland was £2.9m.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
21362
Session
2019-21
Related items
Ports: Finance
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Finance Infrastructure Ports Scotland
Link
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