A breakdown of funding provided to each local authority to support delivery of free personal care under Frank's Law: FOI release
- Published
- 2 November 2023
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- 202300359552
- Date received
- 31 May 2023
- Date responded
- 19 June 2023
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
You asked for:
A breakdown of funding provided to each local authority to support delivery of free personal care under Frank's Law in each financial year since 2019.
The number of people aged under 65 who were receiving free personal care under Frank's Law in each financial year since 2019.
Response
I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested.
Some of the information you have requested in your first query is available from here: Local Governance Finance Settlement 2019-20 (www.gov.scot).
For 2020-21, the following table contains the funding provided to each local authority to support the delivery of FPC to under 65s:
2020-21 |
Free Personal Care Under 65s |
|
£m |
Aberdeen City |
1.328 |
Aberdeenshire |
1.374 |
Angus |
0.587 |
Argyll & Bute |
0.433 |
Clackmannanshire |
0.272 |
Dumfries & Galloway |
0.739 |
Dundee City |
0.834 |
East Ayrshire |
0.643 |
East Dunbartonshire |
0.549 |
East Lothian |
0.551 |
East Renfrewshire |
0.481 |
Edinburgh, City of |
3.057 |
Eilean Siar |
0.133 |
Falkirk |
0.863 |
Fife |
1.958 |
Glasgow City |
3.735 |
Highland |
1.218 |
Inverclyde |
0.415 |
Midlothian |
0.479 |
Moray |
0.498 |
North Ayrshire |
0.696 |
North Lanarkshire |
1.852 |
Orkney |
0.113 |
Perth & Kinross |
0.774 |
Renfrewshire |
0.966 |
Scottish Borders |
0.575 |
Shetland |
0.120 |
South Ayrshire |
0.564 |
South Lanarkshire |
1.710 |
Stirling |
0.514 |
West Dunbartonshire |
0.482 |
West Lothian |
0.987 |
Scotland |
29.500 |
With effect from 1 April 2021, the £29.5 million funding was merged into the overall local government finance settlement block grant and, as such, individual local authority allocations are no longer separately identifiable.
All of the information you requested in your second query is available here: Health and social care analysis - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). This link provides all of the data currently available regarding people under 65 receiving Free Personal Care in Scotland. Data for 2022-23 is not yet available but will be published via the same link in due course.
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the websites listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy
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