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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S5W-20780

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 9 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has made of increasing the percentage of its overall capital budget for 2019-20, as set out in the draft Budget, to be invested in low-carbon projects, in line with commitments it made in January 2018.

The Scottish Government is committed to increasing the percentage of the capital budget invested in low carbon projects. The following table, which includes financial transactions expenditure, shows that the planned investment on low carbon projects, as a percentage of the Scottish Government’s overall capital budget, has increased between 2018-19 and 2019-20, using the methodology from the Low Carbon Task Force’s report “The Case for Low Carbon Infrastructure in Scotland”.

	% of SG Infrastructure Spend that is:
	Low Carbon	Carbon Neutral	High Carbon
2018-19	29.1	59.3	11.6
2019-20	31.8	58.1	10.1

Question reference: S5W-20782

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 9 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of its overall capital spending for 2019-20, as set out in its draft Budget, has been allocated to (a) low carbon, (b) neutral and (c) high carbon projects.