Current status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 11 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it provided to (a) Historic Scotland and (b) Historic Environment Scotland in each year since 2007.
Details of Scottish Government funding for Historic Scotland, from 2007-08 until it became part of Historic Environment Scotland, can be found in the following table. These figures come from the annual Scottish Budget publication.
Year | Historic Scotland Funding £m |
2007-08 | 47.7 |
2008-09 | 51.7 |
2009-10 | 49.3 |
2010-11 | 49.8 |
2011-12 | 47.0 |
2012-13 | 45.3 |
2013-14 | 43.6 |
2014-15 | 37.8 |
2015-16 | 40.1 |
Details of the Scottish Government funding for provided Historic Environment Scotland since 2016-17, the first full year of its accounts, can be found in the following table. These figures come from the annual Scottish Budget publication with the exception of the revised budget in 2020-21 which took account of the effect of pandemic closures on its commercial income.
Year | Historic Environment Scotland Funding £m |
2016-17 | 45.0 |
2017-18 | 45.5 |
2018-19 | 41.1 |
2019-20 | 39.8 |
2020-21 (pre-pandemic) | 42.8 |
2020-21 (revised) | 80.4 |
2021-22 | 75.9 (including £20m in COVID consequentials) |
2022-23 | 70.1 |
2023-24 | 72.7 |