Spending on the State Pension and Universal Credit: FOI release

Information requested

Total day-to-day devolved spending and spending on the state pension and universal credit was £61.7 billion:

1 Please provide itemized breakdown of said £61.7 billion?

2 Please confirm letter contents are indeed 100% true?

Response

The table below sets out the information you have requested. This provides a breakdown of the total devolved day-to-day spending shown in Table 3.2 of the Government Expenditure & Revenue Scotland (GERS) publication, as well as expenditure on the state pension and universal credit, which is taken from Box 3.2 of GERS.
 

Selected spending lines (£ million)

	2020-21
Scottish Government and Local Government current expenditure
General public services
- Public and common services	£1,421
- International services	£1
- Public sector debt interest	£0
Defence	£4
Public order and safety	£2,841
Economic Affairs
- Enterprise and economic development	£811
- Science and technology	£1
- Employment policies	£0
- Agriculture, forestry and fisheries	£758
- Transport	£2,017
Environment protection	£862
Housing and community amenities	£363
Health	£16,515
Recreation, culture and religion	£972
Education and training	£8,367
Social protection	£8,783
EU Transactions	£0
Accounting adjustment	£6,317
Total current Scottish Government & Local Government (Table 3.2)	£50,031
State pension (Box 3.2)	£8,517
Universal credit (Box 3.2)	£3,170
Total	£61,718

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