AQW 9814/17-22 Written question to the Minister for Infrastructure
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether funding from the Blue/Green Fund is available for feasibility studies.
Asked by Andrew Muir MLA on 5 November 2020
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 5 November 2020
- Answer due by
- 20 November 2020
- Answered
- 17 November 202012 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The Blue Green Fund which I announced in June 2020, encompasses a number of individual projects and programmes, some of which have already been launched such as my Departments’ contribution to the COVID 19 Town Revitalisation Schemes; and further projects and programmes which are currently being developed to be rolled out in the near future including the Blue/Green Challenge Fund to support community groups and businesses.
The Blue/Green Fund is Capital, and therefore it is important that careful consideration is given to the use of the fund for feasibility studies, to ensure that the product will represent an asset which can be capitalised.
The underlying theme for all of the Blue Green projects and programmes is to act as a catalyst for positive infrastructure and cultural change in the way we live and travel. By their nature many of these programmes and projects are and will be pilots to establish feasibility, and to pump prime for future activities.