Question reference: S6W-00372
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 2 June 2021
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Current status: Answered by Angela Constance on 15 June 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much additional funding it assigned to NHS Ayrshire and Arran to help prevent drug-related deaths in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
Answer
The money we provide to NHS boards is provided to fund drug and alcohol services.
In 2018-2019 Ayrshire and Arran received £3,538,392 baseline funding to support the delivery of alcohol and drug services.
In addition, in 2018-2019 Ayrshire and Arran received £1,259,555 from Programme for Government allocation.
In 2019-2020 Ayrshire and Arran received £3,538,392 baseline funding to support the delivery of alcohol and drug services.
In addition, in 2019-2020 Ayrshire and Arran received £1,259,555 from Programme for Government allocation.
In 2020-2021 Ayrshire and Arran received £3,538,392 in baseline funding to support the delivery of alcohol and drug services.
In addition, in 2020-2021 Ayrshire and Arran received –
1. £1,878,903 from Programme for Government Allocation.
2. £ 260,970 from additional funding of £3 million made available to Alcohol and Drug Partnerships to support work to reduce drug deaths in Scotland.
3. £ 216,641 in funding through the Drugs Death Task Force,
We have declared that a national mission is required to tackle drug-related death and have committed additional funding of £50 million per year over the next session of parliament. This is in addition to baseline funding.
Details of funding to NHS Boards can be found here - Alcohol and Drug Partnerships: funding allocations - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
Details of additional funding through Local Improvement Fund can be found here –
Local Improvement Fund: allocations - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
Details of Additional funding for ADPs in 2020/2021 can be found here - Alcohol and drug partnerships: additional funding 2020-2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)