Health and Social Care Alliance (The ALLIANCE) funding: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002


Information requested

1. Is Health and Social Care Alliance (The ALLIANCE) in receipt of funding from the Scottish Government?

2. If this organisation is in receipt of Government funding, please confirm the level of funding since 2018 (the year minimum pricing came into effect), with a break-down of the funding given to that organisation for each year to 2024.

3. Please confirm whether a condition of funding approval at any time since 2018 is that the organisation must publicly (or otherwise) support the policy of minimum unit pricing and where that is the case, please provide the specific wording of the condition(s).

Response

I can confirm that £28,045,747.49 was paid to Health and Social Care Alliance (The ALLIANCE) between 2018 and 2024. A detailed breakdown of the funding given to the organisation for the period you requested is presented in the table below.

2018 / 2019 £5,187,739.45
2019 / 2020 £4,337,262
2020 / 2021 £4,718,888
2021 / 2022 £4,923,663
2022 / 2023 £4,714,788.04
2023 / 2024 £4,163,407
TOTAL: £28,045,747.49

With regard to the third question of your request to ‘confirm whether a condition of funding approval at any time since 2018 is that the organisation must publicly (or otherwise) support the policy of minimum unit pricing and where that is the case, provide the specific wording of the condition(s)', I can confirm that the funding approval and terms of funding did not contain any conditions in relation to the organisation’s support for the Minimum Unit Pricing policy.

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Contact

Please quote the FOI reference
Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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