Health and Social Care outturn spending: FOI release

Information requested

Scottish Government's recorded final outturn spending amounts against each of its Level 3 categories for Health and Social Care, for each of the financial years 2019-20; 2020-21, 2021-22; and 2022-23.

Response

The answer to your question is below, a summary of the final outturn figures per Category 3 budget heading from 2019-20 to 2022-23. In addition to the figures included, the following additional information is available:

• Board published accounts are available on Board websites;
• Health and Social Care Portfolio outturn available from Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts – Financial reports and accounts - Government finance - gov.scot
• Public Health Scotland Cost Book data - Scottish health service costs - summary for financial year  2022 to 2023 - Scottish health service costs - Publications - Public Health Scotland

The figures outlined below include allocations from Health and Social Care Directorates to Boards, grants to third parties and operating costs. The below figures do not fully represent the expenditure of each policy area as expenditure is incurred within core Board budgets, therefore cannot be considered in isolation, but with the additional information outlined above. 

In-year budget transfers to other Portfolios for specific policy interventions at Autumn and Spring Budget revision are not included within outturn. In addition, during the period requested specific Covid- 19 policy interventions resulted in significant movements in comparators, for example, Active Healthy Lives – Emergency funding for sport.

DGHSC Level 3 Outturn	£m's
	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
Workforce and Nursing	149.3	187.6	265.0	285.2
General Medical Services	927.7	1,063.3	1,139.8	1,081.3
Pharmaceutical Services	191.9	208.0	217.6	228.7
General Dental Services	429.2	427.6	455.9	469.4
General Ophthalmic Services	107.4	110.6	115.7	119.1
Outcomes Framework	62.9	71.9	74.1	74.1
Health Improvement and Protection**	70.8	92.5	358.5	114.8
Alcohol and Drugs Policy*	0.0	0.0	84.6	85.4
Mental Health Services	68.7	115.5	254.1	239.5
Quality and Improvement	36.4	56.0	84.7	50.1
Digital Health and Care	83.9	113.1	113.5	100.8
Early Years	44.7	49.4	51.9	53.5
Covid-19 & Miscellaneous Other Services**	148.7	1,409.6	1,741.7	317.2
Social Care Investment	219.8	105.3	117.8	262.8
Revenue Consequences of NPD	59.2	65.0	68.0	73.2
SportsScotland	31.6	43.1	29.6	33.6
Active, Healthy Lives**	7.6	39.9	16.3	14.4
NHS Impairments	92.4	62.2	154.0	74.7
Health Capital Investment	477.3	476.7	784.3	904.1
Financial Transactions	0.0	38.9	1.5	3.9
Capital Receipts	-27.5	-22.1	-20.0	-9.7
Total	3,181.8	4,714.1	6,108.5	4,576.0
* Alcohol and Drugs Policy included in Health Improvement and Protection before 2021-22
** Covid-19 funding allocated for specific Covid interventions

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