Team Scotland's inward investment support: evaluation

Footnotes

1. Safeguarding refers to supporting a business to maintain operations in Scotland when considering relocation, downsizing, or closure.

2. Opportunity areas are Decarbonisation of Transport, Digital Business Services, Digital Financial Services, Energy Transition, Food & Drink Innovation, Healthtech, Software & IT, Space, and Transformation of Chemical Industries.

3. Includes financial and non-financial instruments, as well as interventions such as signposting and advice.

4. Planned jobs measure is a KPI used by delivery partners.

5. Analysis of the Management Information was conducted across financial years 2016/17 – 2021/22, which is available in the report by the Enterprise Research Centre.

6. 206 out of 282 firms were matched into the interdepartmental business register (IDBR). The majority (97%) of the £1.7 billion is the turnover of safeguarded firms. These are established firms likely to be at a different stage in their growth cycle.

7. Based on the size of the business' Scottish operations – less than 250 employees.

8. The most popular English regions were London, North West and North East.

9. Range estimate between 3,952 and 6,525 new jobs.

10. Range estimate between 4,839 and 6,622 safeguarded jobs.

11. Referring to support from SG and DP.

12. This includes all projects that do not fit into the opportunity areas. Approximately two-thirds of the projects in question predated the IIP and subsequent opportunity area definitions.

13. Extract taken from March 2021.

14. These figures include expansion projects and are therefore not necessarily linked to the support provided.

15. Note the definition of inward investment in this report stated in the introduction, which includes both rUK and overseas investment.

16. Based on the size of the business' Scottish operations – less than 250 employees.

17. Range estimate between 3,952 and 6,525 new jobs.

18. Range estimate between 4,839 and 6,622 safeguarded jobs.