Monitoring and Evaluation

Section 70(2)(g) of the 2019 Act requires local authorities’ WPL schemes to include arrangements for the periodic review of the operation and effectiveness of the scheme, including how the outcome of a review is to be communicated to persons affected by it.

WPL schemes are not intended to sit on their own: they may only be made when a local authority has an LTS and the local authority considers that the WPL scheme would support the objectives of the LTS. The schemes will raise revenue to fund objectives in the LTS. Therefore we expect that monitoring and evaluation will sit within the wider monitoring and evaluation of the LTS alongside other transport and climate change measures.

During policy development of the WPL regulations and this guidance document, the working group agreed that there is a shared interested in monitoring the outcome of WPL schemes within the context of broader climate change objectives and evidence. This monitoring may sit within the route map to achieve a 20 per cent reduction in car kilometres by 2030, which was published in draft for consultation by Transport Scotland and COSLA in January 2022. Further arrangements for monitoring and evaluation may be arranged through these collaborative efforts.

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