Question reference: S6W-18334
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 25 May 2023
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Current status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 9 June 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding the Scottish AI Alliance has received, broken down by (a) public and (b) any non-public funding.
Answer
The Scottish AI Alliance is a partnership between The Data Lab and the Scottish Government and is led by a Minister-appointed Chair and overseen by Senior Responsible Officers from The Data Lab (CEO) and the Scottish Government (CDO).
The team consists of 4 Scottish Government Civil Servants and five individuals who are based at the Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, which is administratively hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
An annual grant is paid to the University to cover the cost of staffing and activities carried out by the Data Lab team, including the delivery of the annual Scottish AI Summit, – the cost of this is as follows –
2021-22 - £265,000.00 – Grant awarded via Scottish Funding Council
2022-23 - £505,593.15 – Grant awarded directly by Scottish Government Digital Directorate
This is therefore all public funding and there is no private funding of the Alliance.