The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) provides funding to support and facilitate high quality applied research across a wide health and care remit CSO Approach to Funding – Chief Scientist Office (scot.nhs.uk) This includes funding in support of research in areas of public health, or health and care where delivery may be outside of clinical settings CSO's annual budget from 2012-13 to 2022-23 is provided below: 2012-13 £67.9 million 2013-14 £68.3 million 2014-15 £68.5 million 2015-16 £66.8 million 2016-17 £64.8 million 2017-18 £64.4 million 2018-19 £67.2 million 2019-20 £69.9 million 2020-21 £69.9 million 2021-22 £75.4 million (includes £3.5 million non-recurring COVID-19 funding) 2022-23 £78.4 million S6W...