Current status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 30 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it anticipates that any of the £4.5 million budget for the actions in the Neurological Care and Support in Scotland: A Framework for Action 2020 – 2025 will not have been spent by March 2025; if so, how much of the budget it anticipates will have been spent by this date, and for what reason the full £4.5 million will not have been distributed within this timescale, in light of its commitment to do so.
It is forecast that £3.185m will have been spent by the end of March 2025 for activity related to the aims in the Neurological Care and Support in Scotland: A Framework for Action 2020 – 2025.
The Framework was published in 2019 and despite the extensive disruption to health and social care services during the pandemic, and accompanying pressure on Scottish Government and health board priorities, we sustained our focus and efforts to deliver the commitments of the Framework.
Actions will continue in the financial year 2025-26 for which the budget is still to be passed. We are asking Parliament to unite behind the Budget to ensure this funding reaches the people who need it.