Introduction
Corporate Priorities
Five Business Areas
Organisation
Budget
CORPORATE PRIORITIES
Ithas beenwelldocumentedthat infrastructure investmentwillplay a vital part inScotland’spost-COVID-19 economic recovery.
While investment is key, sotoo is ensuring the right infrastructuredecisions are made to reach the ambitious goalofScotland becominga net zerocarbonnationby 2045.
This year’s Business Plan comes following the publication in 2020 of the two highly significant reports by the Infrastructure Commission for Scotland (ICS). The Commissioners presented Scottish Government with a 30-year infrastructure strategy, stressing all future investment should be focussed on delivering infrastructure that is inclusive, place based and contributes to a net zero carbon economy.
In February 2021 Scottish Government published its 2021-26 Infrastructure Investment Plan, where it accepted the ICS’s recommendations and included an infrastructure hierarchy, highlighting that enhancement and maintenance of infrastructure would be prioritised over new build.
ScottishGovernment’s Infrastructure InvestmentPlan
The infrastructure environment is driven primarily by the long- term trends of the climate emergency, digitalisation, and demographic change that these publications set out. The more immediate COVID reality of changed travel patterns and demands, changes to physical and digital working arrangements and the way we think about and use different places have affected us all. We will respond to these and the imperatives of a post-COVID recovery in our work, but will remain driven by the long-term trends.
Taking into account the long-term trends of climate emergency, digitalisation and demographic change, as Scottish Government’s independent centre of infrastructure expertise, we have set ourselves the following three corporate priorities:
• Enable the transition to net zero emissions (focus on leading the way with coordinated decarbonisation of public sector assets to catalyse necessary industry transition)
• Drive inclusive economic growth (focus on delivering additionality of investment and accelerating appropriate development activity in current economic context)
• Build resilient and sustainable places (focus on showing leadership in the shift to collaborative and place-based ways of working)
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