Regional Short-Term Let Economic Impact: BiGGAR Report

BiGGAR Report: MSP/Stakeholder mailing

A new independent analysis from respected Scottish consultancy, BiGGAR Economics, reveals the substantial positive economic impact of Scotland’s self-catering industry which was also shown to have a negligible effect on housing.

Read more here.

We have developed regional press releases for certain destinations, and curated key findings for Scotland’s regions.

Below, we have provided MSP emails and would encourage you to write to your representatives (MSPs, MPs and Councillors). You can access your own representatives here by entering your postcode.

Scotland overall:

• STLs are estimated to generate £864m GVA and support 29,324 jobs across Scotland;
• Edinburgh and Highland together account for 44% of the total economic impact but the sector’s benefits are dispersed throughout Scotland;
• The annual GVA associated with an average owner-occupier/private rented household in Scotland was £14,451, compared to £50,159 for a two-bedroom STL; and
• STLs make up a tiny proportion of Scotland’s housing stock, with self-catering accounting for just 0.8%. This is considerably less than the 3.6% that economically inactive empty properties account for.

Scottish Government Ministers:

• firstminister@gov.scot (John Swinney)
• DFMCSEG@gov.scot (Kate Forbes)
• CabSecFLG@gov.scot (Shona Robison)
• MinisterforBusiness@gov.scot (Richard Lochhead)
• MinisterEI@gov.scot (Tom Arthur)
• MinisterPF@gov.scot (Ivan McKee)
• MinisterforHousing@gov.scot (Paul McLennan)

Central Scotland:

• Falkirk £5.6m GVA; 190 jobs
• South Lanarkshire: £3.2 GVA; 110 jobs
• North Lanarkshire: £1.4m GVA; 46 jobs.

Airdrie & Shotts Neil Gray (SNP): Neil.Gray.msp@parliament.scot

Coatbridge & Chryston Fulton MacGregor (SNP): Fulton.MacGregor.msp@parliament.scot

Cumbernauld & Kilsyth Jamie Hepburn (SNP): Jamie.Hepburn.msp@parliament.scot

East Kilbride Collette Stevenson (SNP): Collette.Stevenson.msp@parliament.scot

Falkirk East Michelle Thomson (SNP): Michelle.Thomson.msp@parliament.scot

Falkirk West Michael Matheson (SNP): Michael.Matheson.msp@parliament.scot

Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse Christina McKelvie (SNP): Christina.McKelvie.msp@parliament.scot

Motherwell & Wishaw Clare Adamson (SNP): Clare.Adamson.msp@parliament.scot

Uddingston & Bellshill Stephanie Callaghan (SNP): Stephanie.Callaghan.msp@parliament.scot

Richard Leonard (Lab): Richard.Leonard.msp@parliament.scot

Stephen Kerr (Con): Stephen.Kerr.msp@parliament.scot

Monica Lennon (Lab): Monica.Lennon.msp@parliament.scot

Graham Simpson (Con): Graham.Simpson.msp@parliament.scot

Mark Griffin (Lab): Mark.Griffin.msp@parliament.scot

Meghan Gallacher (Con): Meghan.Gallacher.msp@parliament.scot

Gillian Mackay (Green): Gillian.Mackay.msp@parliament.scot

Glasgow

• Glasgow: £20m GVA; 680 jobs

Glasgow Anniesland Bill Kidd (SNP): Bill.Kidd.msp@parliament.scot

Glasgow Cathcart James Dornan (SNP): James.Dornan.msp@parliament.scot

Glasgow Kelvin Kaukab Stewart (SNP): Kaukab.Stewart.msp@parliament.scot

Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Bob Doris (SNP): Bob.Doris.msp@parliament.scot

Glasgow Pollok Humza Yousaf (SNP): Humza.Yousaf.msp@parliament.scot

Glasgow Provan Ivan McKee (SNP): Ivan.McKee.msp@parliament.scot

Glasgow Shettleston John Mason (Ind): John.Mason.msp@parliament.scot

Glasgow Southside Nicola Sturgeon (SNP): Nicola.Sturgeon.msp@parliament.scot

Rutherglen Clare Haughey (SNP): Clare.Haughey.msp@parliament.scot

Pauline McNeill (Lab): Pauline.McNeill.msp@parliament.scot

Anas Sarwar (Lab): Anas.Sarwar.msp@parliament.scot

Annie Wells (Con): Annie.Wells.msp@parliament.scot

Patrick Harvie (Green): Patrick.Harvie.msp@parliament.scot

Paul Sweeney (Lab): Paul.Sweeney.msp@parliament.scot

Pam Duncan-Glancy (Lab): Pam.Duncan-Glancy.msp@parliament.scot

Sandesh Gulhane (Con): Sandesh.Gulhane.msp@parliament.scot

Highlands and Islands

• Highland: GVA £199.9m; 6,786 jobs
• Argyll & Bute: £33.5m; 1,136 jobs
• Orkney: £21.1 GVA; 717 jobs
• Na h-Eileanan Siar: £19m GVA; 646 jobs
• Moray £9.3 GVA; 314 jobs
• Shetland Islands £6.4 GVA; 217 jobs

Argyll and Bute Jenni Minto (SNP): Jenni.Minto.msp@parliament.scot

Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Maree Todd (SNP): Maree.Todd.msp@parliament.scot

Inverness and Nairn Fergus Ewing (SNP): Fergus.Ewing.msp@parliament.scot

Moray Richard Lochhead (SNP): Richard.Lochhead.msp@parliament.scot

Na h-Eileanan an Iar Alasdair Allan (SNP): Alasdair.Allan.msp@parliament.scot

Orkney Islands Liam McArthur (LD): Liam.McArthur.msp@parliament.scot

Shetland Islands Beatrice Wishart (LD): Beatrice.Wishart.msp@parliament.scot

Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch Kate Forbes (SNP): Kate.Forbes.msp@parliament.scot

Douglas Ross (Con): Douglas.Ross.msp@parliament.scot

Edward Mountain (Con): Edward.Mountain.msp@parliament.scot

Rhoda Grant (Lab): Rhoda.Grant.msp@parliament.scot

Ariane Burgess (Green): Ariane.Burgess.msp@parliament.scot

Jamie Halcro Johnston (Con): Jamie.HalcroJohnston.msp@parliament.scot

Emma Roddick (SNP): Emma.Roddick.msp@parliament.scot

Tim Eagle (Con): Tim.Eagle.msp@parliament.scot

Lothian

• City of Edinburgh: £154m GVA; 5,580 jobs
• West Lothian: £1.5m GVA; 52 jobs.

Almond Valley Angela Constance (SNP): Angela.Constance.msp@parliament.scot

Edinburgh Central Angus Robertson (SNP): Angus.Robertson.msp@parliament.scot

Edinburgh Eastern Ash Regan (Alba): Ash.Regan.msp@parliament.scot

Edinburgh Northern and Leith Ben Macpherson (SNP): Ben.Macpherson.msp@parliament.scot

Edinburgh Pentlands (Gordon MacDonald (SNP): Gordon.MacDonald.msp@parliament.scot

Edinburgh Southern Daniel Johnson (Lab): Daniel.Johnson.msp@parliament.scot

Edinburgh Western Alex Cole-Hamilton (LD): Alex.Cole-Hamilton.msp@parliament.scot

Linlithgow Fiona Hyslop (SNP): Fiona.Hyslop.msp@parliament.scot

Midlothian North and Musselburgh Colin Beattie (SNP): Colin.Beattie.msp@parliament.scot

Miles Briggs (Con): Miles.Briggs.msp@parliament.scot

Alison Johnstone (Presiding Officer): Alison.Johnstone.msp@parliament.scot

Sue Webber (Con): Sue.Webber.msp@parliament.scot

Sarah Boyack (Lab): sarah.boyack.msp@parliament.scot

Jeremy Balfour (Con): Jeremy.Balfour.msp@parliament.scot

Foysol Choudhury (Lab): Foysol.Choudhury.msp@parliament.scot

Lorna Slater (Green): Lorna.Slater.msp@parliament.scot

Mid Scotland and Fife

• Fife: £80.1m GVA; 2,721 jobs
• Perth & Kinross: £51.8m GVA; 1,757 jobs
• Stirling: £28.3m GVA; 960 jobs
• Clackmannanshire: £0.9m GVA; 30 jobs.

Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Keith Brown (SNP): Keith.Brown.msp@parliament.scot

Cowdenbeath Annabelle Ewing (SNP): Annabelle.Ewing.msp@parliament.scot

Dunfermline Shirley-Anne Somerville (SNP): Shirley-Anne.Somerville.msp@parliament.scot

Kirkcaldy David Torrance (SNP): David.Torrance.msp@parliament.scot

Mid Fife and Glenrothes Jenny Gilruth (SNP): Jenny.Gilruth.msp@parliament.scot

North East Fife Willie Rennie (LD): Willie.Rennie.msp@parliament.scot

Perthshire North John Swinney (SNP): John.Swinney.msp@parliament.scot

Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Jim Fairlie (SNP): Jim.Fairlie.msp@parliament.scot

Stirling Evelyn Tweed (SNP): Evelyn.Tweed.msp@parliament.scot

Murdo Fraser (Con): Murdo.Fraser.msp@parliament.scot

Liz Smith (Con): Liz.Smith.msp@parliament.scot

Claire Baker (Lab): Claire.Baker.msp@parliament.scot

Mark Ruskell (Green): Mark.Ruskell.msp@parliament.scot

Alex Rowley (Lab): Alex.Rowley.msp@parliament.scot

Alexander Stewart (Con): Alexander.Stewart.msp@parliament.scot

Roz McCall (Con): Roz.McCall.msp@parliament.scot

North East Scotland

• Aberdeenshire: £16.6m GVA; 563 jobs
• Angus: £14.5 GVA; 493 jobs
• Aberdeen City £13m GVA; 443 jobs
• Dundee City £10.9m; 370 jobs

Angus North and Mearns Mairi Gougeon (SNP): Mairi.Gougeon.msp@parliament.scot

Angus South Graeme Dey (SNP): Graeme.Dey.msp@parliament.scot

Aberdeen Central Kevin Stewart (SNP): Kevin.Stewart.msp@parliament.scot

Aberdeen Donside Jackie Dunbar (SNP): Jackie.Dunbar.msp@parliament.scot

Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Audrey Nicoll (SNP): Audrey.Nicoll.msp@parliament.scot

Aberdeenshire East Gillian Martin (SNP): Gillian.Martin.msp@parliament.scot

Aberdeenshire West Alexander Burnett (Con): Alexander.Burnett.msp@parliament.scot

Banffshire and Buchan Coast Karen Adam (SNP): Karen.Adam.msp@parliament.scot

Dundee City East Shona Robison (SNP): Shona.Robison.msp@parliament.scot

Dundee City West Joe FitzPatrick (SNP): Joe.FitzPatrick.msp@parliament.scot

Liam Kerr (Con): Liam.Kerr.msp@parliament.scot

Michael Marra (Lab): Michael.Marra.msp@parliament.scot

Douglas Lumsden (Con): Douglas.Lumsden.msp@parliament.scot

Maurice Golden (Con): Maurice.Golden.msp@parliament.scot

Maggie Chapman (Green): Maggie.Chapman.msp@parliament.scot

Tess White (Con): Tess.White.msp@parliament.scot

Mercedes Villalba (Lab): Mercedes.Villalba.msp@parliament.scot

South Scotland

• Scottish Borders: £34.5m GVA; 1,169 jobs
• South Ayrshire: £32.9m GVA; 1,117 jobs
• Dumfries & Galloway: £31.8m GVA; 1,079 jobs
• East Lothian: £14.2m GVA; 482 jobs
• East Ayrshire: £4.4m GVA; 150 jobs
• Midlothian: £1.8m GVA; 62 jobs

Ayr Siobhian Brown (SNP): Siobhian.Brown.msp@parliament.scot

Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley Elena Whitham (SNP): Elena.Whitham.msp@parliament.scot

Clydesdale Màiri McAllan (SNP): Mairi.McAllan.msp@parliament.scot

Dumfriesshire Oliver Mundell (Con): Oliver.Mundell.msp@parliament.scot

East Lothian Paul McLennan (SNP): Paul.McLennan.msp@parliament.scot

Ettrick, Roxburgh & Berwickshire Rachael Hamilton (Con): Rachael.Hamilton.msp@parliament.scot

Galloway & West Dumfries Finlay Carson (Con): Finlay.Carson.msp@parliament.scot

Kilmarnock & Irvine Valley Willie Coffey (SNP): Willie.Coffey.msp@parliament.scot

Midlothian South, Tweeddale & Lauderdale Christine Grahame (SNP): Christine.Grahame.msp@parliament.scot

Colin Smyth (Lab): Colin.Smyth.msp@parliament.scot

Craig Hoy (Con): Craig.Hoy.msp@parliament.scot

Carol Mochan (Lab): Carol.Mochan.msp@parliament.scot

Brian Whittle (Con): Brian.Whittle.msp@parliament.scot

Sharon Dowey (Con): Sharon.Dowey.msp@parliament.scot

Emma Harper (SNP): Emma.Harper.msp@parliament.scot

Martin Whitfield (Lab): Martin.Whitfield.msp@parliament.scot

West Scotland

• North Ayrshire: £26.3m GVA; 894 jobs
• West Dunbartonshire: £2.6m GVA; 87 jobs
• Renfrewshire: £2.2m; 73 jobs
• Inverclyde: £1.2m; 40 jobs
• East Renfrewshire: £1m GVA; 34 jobs.

Clydebank & Milngavie Marie McNair (SNP): Marie.McNair.msp@parliament.scot

Cunninghame North Kenneth Gibson (SNP): Kenneth.Gibson.msp@parliament.scot

Cunninghame South Ruth Maguire (SNP): Ruth.Maguire.msp@parliament.scot

Dumbarton Jackie Baillie (Lab): Jackie.Baillie.msp@parliament.scot

Eastwood Jackson Carlaw (Con): Jackson.Carlaw.msp@parliament.scot

Greenock & Inverclyde Stuart McMillan (SNP): Stewart.McMillan.msp@parliament.scot

Renfrewshire North & West Natalie Don-Innes (SNP): natalie.don-innes.msp@parliament.scot

Paisley George Adam (SNP): George.Adam.msp@parliament.scot

Renfrewshire South Tom Arthur (SNP): Tom.Arthur.msp@parliament.scot

Strathkelvin & Bearsden Rona Mackay (SNP): Rona.MacKay.msp@parliament.scot

Neil Bibby (Lab): Neil.Bibby.msp@parliament.scot

Russell Findlay (Con): Russell.Findlay.msp@parliament.scot

Katy Clark (Lab): Katy.Clark.msp@parliament.scot

Jamie Greene (Con): Jamie.Greene.msp@parliament.scot

Ross Greer (Green): Ross.Greer.msp@parliament.scot

Paul O’Kane (Lab): Paul.O’Kane.msp@parliament.scot