Scottish councils have achieved a target of spending 1% of their budgets through the participatory budgeting process.
Partipatory budgeting is a tool that enables local people to have a direct say on how public money is spent.
In 2017, Scottish local authorities and the Scottish Government agreed that at least 1% of local government budgets would be subject to partipatory buedgeting by the end of 2021.
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) said there had been delays caused by the covid-19 pandemic, but more than 110,000 people had taken part in participatory processes since 2021.
Overall, local people participated in deciding how £154m worth of council budgets would be spent, accounting for 1.4% of available budgets.
Community wealth and public finance minister Tom Arthur said: ‘The appetite for further community empowerment is clear, and I look forward to seeing how participatory budgeting grows in the coming years.’
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