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Written Question · S3W-29339 · Session 3

What statutory core funding has been provided to each of the regional parks in each year since 1999.

Answered Asked by Jamie Hepburn SNP Lodged 24 Nov 2009

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what statutory core funding has been provided to each of the regional parks in each year since 1999.

The answer

Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 3 Dec 2009 · 9 days after it was lodged, on time

Funding of regional parks is a matter for the appropriate local authorities.
Until 2008-09 SNH provided discretionary grant funding towards core and other costs for the regional parks. The sums provided to each park for each year since 1999, were as follows:
Regional Park
| 1999-2000
(£ Million)
| 2000-01
(£ Million)
| 2001-02
(£ Million)
| 2002-03
(£ Million)
| 2003-04
(£ Million)

Pentland Hills
| 0.121
| 0.124
| 0.115
| 0.112
| 0.098

Clyde-Muirshiels
| 0.218
| 0.218
| 0.236
| 0.239
| 0.263

Lomond Hills (Fife)
| 0.077
| 0.058
| 0.068
| 0.065
| 0.080


Regional Park
| 2004-05
(£ Million)
| 2005-06
(£ Million)
| 2006-07
(£ Million)
| 2007-08
(£ Million)
| 2008-09
(£ Million)

Pentland Hills
| 0.121
| 0.110
| 0.112
| 0.109
| 0.107

Clyde-Muirshiels
| 0.256
| 0.262
| 0.262
| 0.267
| 0.262

Lomond Hills (Fife)
| 0.092
| 0.086
| 0.089
| 0.088
| 0.069


Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has no records of paying grants to the Loch Lomond Regional Park, which ceased to operate as regional park following the designation of the Loch Lomond and

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-29339 by reference.