Question reference: S6W-20168
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 24 July 2023
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Current status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 18 August 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much (a) it and (b) NHS Scotland has spent on treating nicotine addiction in children and young people in each of the last five years.
Answer
The Scottish Government provides funding annually to Health Boards for smoking cessation and prevention services, but this funding isn’t split for adult and child smoking cessation and prevention services.
This funding is provided as part of a wider Outcomes Framework budget allocation to Health Boards to cover a range of outcomes – in 2023-24 this outcome framework funding totalled £74.1 million.
The table below sets out the Outcome Framework budget allocations for the last 5 years for Health Boards, which is then for Individual Health Boards to determine the allocation of and final expenditure from this budget. For illustrative purposes, c£9-10 million per annum is notionally included as part of the Outcome Framework budget allocation for smoking cessation and prevention.
2018-2019 Budget | 2019-2020 Budget | 2020-2021 Budget | Restated 2021-2022 Budget | 2022-2023 Budget | |
£m | £m | £m | £m | £m | |
Outcomes Framework Budget Allocations for Health Boards | 66.2 | 75.7 | 71.9 | 74.1 | 74.1 |