Scottish Enterprise Q4 £12.3m grants 'to create 1,200 jobs'

Scottish Enterprise agreed grants totalling £12.3 million in the final quarter of last year in a move that should lead to the creation of 1,245 jobs.

A further 128 jobs are expected to be safeguarded thanks to the regional selective assistance funding, which was down on the 14.8m agreed in the three months to September.

Grants accepted between October and December included 6.6m to Barclays Bank to help create 600 posts in Glasgow, and 750,000 to online retailer Amazon to expand its customer fulfilment and distribution centre in Gourock, adding 200 staff. Lena Wilson, chief executive of Scottish Enterprise, said she was "particularly pleased" to see a high number of creative industries companies in these latest results.

Four companies in the sector accepted 518,000 of funding to create or safeguard 51 jobs.