Scottish Futures Trust Budget Allocation: FOI release

Information requested

From what source did the Scottish government's Grant-in-Aid sum of £9m derive, and

From what source did the £0.2m other income come from?

Response

With regard to the first part of your question, the Scottish Government provides an operational budget to the Scottish Futures Trust on a yearly basis This is made up of a core grant and adjustments agreed by Parliament at Autumn and Spring Budget Revisions (ABR and SBR) for various portfolios of work.

In 2018-19 the Scottish Government provided Scottish Futures Trust with a core grant of £4.5 million and additional £4.551 million in changes at ABR/SBR. The total resource budget paid by the Socttish Government to Scottish Futures Trust in 2018-19 was £9.051 million.

The breakbreak down of these payments is shown in Table 1 below.

Table 1 – Scottish Futures Trust Budget Allocation 2018-19

£000s

Resource Budget	Original budget	Changes at ABR/SBR	Final budget
Core grant	4500	0	4500
Low Carbon	0	500	500
Digital	0	1400	1400
Housing Rental Income Guarantee Scheme (RIGS) delivery and commercial support for innovation	0	172	172
School for the Future programme support	0	100	100
Early Years	0	250	250
Health Operational PPP	0	152	152
Health hub central contribution and health hub revenue enabling	0	1200	1200
Health Land	0	418	418
Smarter Workplaces asset management	0	309	309
Building Information Modelling (BIM) support	0	50	50
Agreed Resource Budget	4500	4551	9051

Regarding the second point to your question, the £0.2m “other income” came from Public Interest Directorships (13 in total) undertaken by senior staff at Scottish Futures Trust who sit on various project boards. There was also a smaller amount obtained through the secondment of an employee to Strathclyde University.

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