Coronavirus (COVID-19): business support funding interim experimental statistics - by local authority and scheme from November 2020
A summary of COVID-19 business support funding paid to Scottish Businesses to June 2021.
This publication contains information on COVID-19 business support funding broken down by Local Authority for specific schemes.
The time period reported broadly covers schemes that went live between March 2020 and June 2021. This information does not cover all funding. We have yet to systematically collect award individual level data on all schemes that went live in the 2021-22 financial year. Data published from these later schemes has been collected at aggregate level only so far.
In total this publication covers 68 schemes and a total of £2.78 billion in funds that was disbursed to support businesses cope with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The total COVID-19 related business support funding is over £4.6 billion. Not included here is £1.5 billion in non-domestics rates relief, and a further £0.3 billion in funds administered since June 2021). A summary of the full funding is available here: summary of Scottish business support funding
The majority of the information used in this publication was gathered in June 2021. For the most part the data relates to the final position of closed funds at that point. In a few cases the fund was still ongoing (e.g. Local Authority Discretional Fund) or had future rounds. In those cases the data will relate to the position as of June 2021.
The data was compiled from award level payment information from the administrators of the various schemes and then aggregating the information [1]. Where this was not possible, breakdowns by local authority were sourced from other publications (see footnote 10 and Sources tab in the tables). Please note that due to ongoing quality assurance, these statistics are subject to change. The figures may differ slightly from previously published aggregate scheme values, due to the more in-depth methodology used here and also from subsequent changes to funding such as some businesses repaying funding they had received.
Contents
Please see the excel files linked on this page for the publication data
Table 1: Funds by Local Authority
Table 2: Funds by Scheme name
Table 3: Funds by both Local Authority and Scheme name
Additional information on schemes
More information about current local authority administered funds is available. Names of recipients of awards have been published for the following funds:
- Aquaculture Hardship Fund: Seafood Producers Resilience Fund: beneficiaries
- Campervan and Motorhome Rental Operators Fund (Visit Scotland): Campervan & Motorhome Operators Fund
- Coronavirus Liquidity Support for SME Housebuilders: Coronavirus (COVID-19): liquidity support for SME housebuilders
- Culture Collective Fund (Creative Scotland): Announcement of Culture Collective recipients
- Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery (Creative Scotland): Emergency funds reach Culture Organisations and Venues and Further awards from the Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery Fund
- Early Stage Growth Challenge Fund (Scottish Enterprise): Accessing our information - Scottish Enterprise
- Events Industry Support Fund (Visit Scotland): Support Fund for Scottish Events Industry
- Grassroots Music Fund (Creative Scotland): Emergency Scottish Government relief funds reach grassroots music venues and Emergency relief funds reach grassroots music venues
- Harbours Resilience Funding (Marine Scotland): Seafood Producers Resilience Fund: beneficiaries
- Hotel Support Programme: Accessing our information - Scottish Enterprise
- Independent Cinema Recovery and Resilience Fund (Screen Scotland): Emergency funding Scotland’s Independent Cinemas and Independent cinemas reopening additional support
- Museums and Galleries Scotland Urgent Response COVID-19 Fund, Covid-19 Adaption Fund and Digital Resilience Fund: Museums and Galleries Grants Awarded 2020-21
- Performing Arts Venues Relief Fund (Creative Scotland): Relief funds support performing arts venues and Performing arts venues funds continued
- Pre-Seed Fund (Scottish Enterprise): Accessing our information - Scottish Enterprise
- Scottish Country Sports Tourism Restart Fund (Visit Scotland): Scottish Country Sports Restart Fund
- Scottish Marine and Outdoor Tourism Restart Fund (Visit Scotland): Scottish Marine & Outdoor Tourism Fund
- Scottish Seafood Business Resilience Fund: Seafood Producers Resilience Fund: beneficiaries
- Scottish Wholesale Food and Drink Resilience Fund: Scottish Wholesale Food and Drink Resilience Fund
- Scotland Tour Operators Fund (Visit Scotland): Scotland Tour Operators
- Scotland Coach Operators COVID-19 Business Support and Continuity Fund (Visit Scotland): Scotland's coach tourism & coach private hire sector fund
- Scottish Wedding Industry Fund and Top-Up (Enterprise Agencies): Scottish Enterprise Wedding fund and Highland and Islands Enterprise Wedding Fund.
- Sea Fisheries Intervention Fund: Seafood Producers Resilience Fund: beneficiaries
- Sector and Destination Operational and Market Readiness Fund (Visit Scotland): Operational & Market Readiness Fund
- Screen Bridging Bursary Awards: Bridging Bursary | Creative Scotland
- Ski Centre Support Fund (Enterprise Agencies): Scottish Enterprise COVID-19: Ski Centre Support Fund and Highland and Islands Enterprise scheme approvals including Ski Fund (Ski Schools Fund and Snowsports Programme)
- Three Arts Venues (Creative Scotland): Supporting performing arts Emergency funding
- Transitional Support Fund for Childcare Providers: EC Search Aid Award data (select Aid Measure Case Number- SA.56841 and Sector- Child day-care activities)
Further breakdowns have been published for the following funds e.g. by sector:
- Arts and Creative Bridging Bursary Awards (Creative Scotland): Bridging Bursary | Creative Scotland
- Creative, Tourism and Hospitality Enterprises Hardship Fund (Enterprise Agencies): Hardship and resilience funds statistics
- Mobile and Home Based Close Contact Services: Mobile and Home Based Close Contact Services Fund Statistics
- Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund (Enterprise Agencies): Hardship and resilience funds statistics
- Screen Bridging Bursary Awards: Bridging Bursary | Creative Scotland
An experimental statistics publication for Scotland
Experimental statistics are defined by the Code of Practice for Statistics as 'a subset of newly developed or innovative official statistics undergoing evaluation, that are published in order to involve users and stakeholders in the assessment of their suitability and quality at an early stage'.
More detail on statistical designations is available.
Correspondence and enquiries
For enquiries about the publication please contact:
Pippa Stone
COVID-19 Business Support Statistics
Email: Pippa.stone@gov.scot
Contact
For general enquiries about Scottish Government statistics, please contact: Office of the Chief Statistician, Telephone: 0131 244 0442, e-mail:
statistics.enquiries@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Acknowledgements
With thanks to Sam Grant for his work compiling and quality assuring this publication.
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