Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the primary care fund budget for (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18 and (c) 2018-19 and what plans it has to make additional funding available.
The Scottish Government has committed to increasing spending on primary care services to 11% of the frontline NHS spending by the end of this parliament - delivering an extra half a billion pounds in building a Community Health Service with general practice at its heart.
The 2016-17 budget for Primary Care Fund is £45 million. The Primary Care Fund for 2017-18 and subsequent years will be agreed as part of the Spending Review and Budget Bill processes for those years, which will be subject to approval by the Scottish Parliament.