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Meeting of the Parliament 11 February 2016

11 Feb 2016 · S4 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
General Question Time
Climate Change Budget (Reduction)
McLeod, Aileen SNP South Scotland Watch on SPTV

The draft budget embeds climate change spend within relevant portfolios, including support for renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable travel, waste reduction and natural carbon capture through forestry and peatland restoration.

Reductions are predominately in the energy budget; it is widely recognised that the United Kingdom Government is hampering the renewable energy sector and putting at risk millions of pounds of investment in the Scottish and UK economies. If the UK Government had kept to its previous commitments, the viability of many projects would not now be in question and Scottish Government support would have been maintained. In addition, the UK Government’s axing of its green deal home improvement fund led directly to Scotland losing £15 million in ring-fenced consequentials that supported our home energy efficiency programme cashback scheme.

Despite the raft of UK regulatory and policy changes in energy and energy efficiency, we have increased our climate change budget across other areas by £13.3 million.

In the same item of business

6. Claudia Beamish (South Scotland) (Lab) Lab
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has reduced the climate change budget. (S4O-05559)
The Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (Aileen McLeod) SNP
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Claudia Beamish Lab
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Aileen McLeod SNP
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