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The Scottish Government is investing up to £63.8 million revenue funding in Dundee’s Waterfront, as part of the Growth Accelerator agreed with Dundee City Council. Under the Growth Accelerator model, funding will be paid over 25 years on the achievement of agreed metrics.

Scottish Enterprise has invested £32.6 million capital funding in the Dundee Central Waterfront, with £2 million having been provided within the period 2015-16 to‎ 2020-21. Within the same timeframe, Scottish Enterprise provided £58,333 revenue funding to the Dundee Waterfront Partnership and £22,705 for feasibility studies.

In addition, the Scottish Government provided a Regeneration Capital Grant Fund award of £1 million in 2016-17 towards the City Quay Project.

Funding in support of the V&A Dundee is detailed separately in response to‎ S5W-36252 on 22 March 2021 .

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

Dundee is home to a world-class conference and events sector which, prior to the pandemic, brought a range of social and economic benefits to the city. We recognise the impact that COVID-19 restrictions are having on our vital events sector and will do everything we can to support and protect their valuable contribution. We have already allocated £31.5 m to support events businesses. As we move towards reopening we will work with public health colleagues and the Events Industry Advisory Group to enable the sector to reopen safely and sustainably as part of Dundee and Scotland’s recovery.

Dundee City Council has received £999,000 in Scottish Government capital funding through the Town Centre Fund. The council received £735,000 from the initial 2019-20 fund, and a further £264,000 in 2020-21 as part of the Return to Work economic recovery stimulus package announced in June 2020 to support local construction and boost jobs.

Social Security Scotland was established in September 2018.

The number of carers in receipt of Carer's Allowance Supplement in Dundee City by financial year are:

The 2021-22 Scottish budget will deliver multiple benefits to the people of Dundee, and also to the wider community. These are split into several areas which are detailed below:

• The Local government settlement;
• Employability and skills funding;
• Towns regeneration;
• Tay cities region deal; and
• The Infrastructure investment plan.

The Local Government Settlement

In 2021-22, Dundee City Council will receive a total funding package of
‎ £342.3 million to support local services, which includes an extra £7.7 million to support vital day to day services, equivalent to an increase of 2.4 per cent compared to 2020-21.

To date, the council have been allocated an additional £41.8 million to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, through the local government settlement - over and above their regular grant payments.

Employability and skills funding

In building for a successful recovery and to ensure that no one is left behind there must be a heavy focus on employability and skills, and that investment in new jobs will be key. In 2021-22 we will invest more than £1bn to drive forward our national ambition for jobs and to equip our workforce with the future skills they need.

Our 2021-22 Scottish Budget allocation includes £125m for skills and employment support, including the Young Person’s Guarantee and the National Transition Training Fund, supporting those 25 and over back into work. Dundee will benefit proportionately from this funding to help people of all ages across the city to retain or re-enter work.

Towns regeneration

The Scottish Budget sets us on a path to establishing a new Place Based Investment Programme which will be backed by £325m capital over the next five years.

This will benefit towns and cities across Scotland, supporting place, community regeneration, town centres, and 20 minute neighbourhoods. It includes maintaining the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund as well as capital funding that will be allocated to each of Scotland’s 32 local authorities to invest locally in line with the above shared aspirations.

Tay cities region deal

The Budget also includes over £200m of funding for this year’s delivery of the City Region and Regional Growth Deals programme, including the Tay Cities Region Deal. Scottish Government has committed £150 million to the Tay Cities Deal over ten years.

In Dundee, this includes delivery of the cyberQuarter at Abertay University and the Biomedical Cluster at Dundee University, which will together receive up to‎ £31 million of SG funding through the Deal and aim to further enhance the city’s reputation for innovation.

Infrastructure investment plan

The Infrastructure Investment Plan 2021-22 to 2025-26, published on 4 February, offers a robust pipeline of over £26 million of work that will help stimulate a green recovery and build market confidence.

The Plan included the following specific investments in Dundee:

• A proposed new East End Community Campus to replace Braeview Academy and Craigie High School as part of the £2 billion Learning Estate Investment Programme.
• A Community Custody Unit in Dundee (£11.6 million) as part of our
  ‎ £98 million of investment in the construction of the innovative new female custodial estate.

In addition, the new Infrastructure Investment Plan outlines a number of national programmes including £3.4 billion for affordable housing, our £600 million R100 broadband programme and over £550 million for active travel, all of which will also benefit people in Dundee.

(a) Scottish Government provides direct resource funding to the V&A Dundee, since 2016 this has been £7.9 million, which includes £1 million of emergency Covid-19 funding provided in 2020. Scottish Government also provided in total £37.6 million towards the project build. This was composed of £25 million in direct capital, £5.5 million of which was between 2016-18, and £12.6 million Growth Accelerator funding.

(b) the Dundee Rep Theatre does not receive direct support from Scottish Government, but support is allocated via Creative Scotland. The Dundee Rep has received 5 awards from Creative Scotland since 2016 (including Regular Funding) totalling just over £6.0 million. £480,000 of this was Covid-19 emergency funding from the Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund.

(c) Scottish Government does not usually provide direct support to other Dundee cultural and tourism organisations. Support is normally allocated via Creative Scotland, Museums Galleries Scotland and Visit Scotland, and all funding decisions are made independently by these funding organisations. Figures provided by Creative Scotland show they have allocated over £11.6 million since 2016 to Dundee based projects and organisations. This includes £78,000 in Covid-19 emergency funding awarded through the Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund. Figures from Museums Galleries Scotland show that over £900,000 has been allocated by them to Dundee based museums since 2016, including £485,000 of Covid-19 emergency support through the Museums Recovery and Resilience Fund.

In addition, in 2020 the Scottish Government provided over £1 million in emergency Covid-19 funding to Dundee based cultural and tourism organisations, through a number of Covid-19 funding schemes. This includes £547,000 to creative industries and tourism and hospitality businesses from the Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund, £318,000 through the Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery Fund, and £232,000 through the Creative, Tourism and Hospitality Enterprises Hardship Fund.

The following table shows the number of properties in Dundee receiving rates relief of 100% or less in each year since 2016-17.

Property-level data for 2017-18 is not available. The data includes all reliefs e.g. the Small Business Bonus Scheme, charitable rates relief; empty property relief; retail, hospitality, leisure and aviation relief, etc. 100% rates relief includes both single reliefs, as well as combinations of two or more reliefs summing to 100%.

Please note that these figures relate to properties, rather than businesses, as one business can occupy multiple properties.

It is anticipated that 5,422 eligible children and young people will benefit from the two new £100 Family Pandemic Payments in the Dundee City Council area, with an estimated £1.08 million to be made in awards. This estimate is based on the reported number of COVID Winter Hardship Payments issued, which, as of 5 February, were paid for 144,128 eligible children and young people across Scotland.

The first Family Pandemic Payment will be made around summer 2021, with the second payment made around Christmas 2021. The date for each round of payments will be confirmed following further discussion with COSLA and will be published on mygov.scot in due course.

The latest published data, obtained from the Pupil Census 2020 Supplementary Statistics, shows that there were 10,330 children registered on the rolls of all primary schools across the Dundee City Council area.

All children who are registered on the rolls of local authority run or grant-maintained primary schools within the Dundee City Council area, and across all of Scotland, will automatically become entitled to receive universal free school meals once the proposed expansion of universal free school meals to include all primary school children is introduced.