£250 million pledge for drug prevention and rehabilitation: FOI release

Information requested

In January 2021 the First Minister announced a pledge of £250 million towards drug prevention and rehabilitation in the next five years. Of that money,

Nicola Sturgeon said:

“This funding – a total of £250m over the next Parliament – will support further investment in a range of community-based interventions, including primary prevention and an expansion of residential rehabilitation”.

It was understood that the £250 million would be invested at a rate of £50 million per year. On that basis, please provide the following:

1. Documented and recorded confirmation that since the FM’s pledge, £50 million per year has been invested into drug prevention and rehabilitation so far.
   
   Please include a breakdown of exactly how the money has been allocated and where it has been invested so far. Ideally this would be in the form a document that shows how much has been spent by the Scottish Government and which services received the pockets of money.
2. A documented record of how the remaining amount of the £250 million has been allocated for the remaining years in the five-year period.
   
   Specifically, how the remaining amount is, at this moment, planned to be spent and allocated.

Response

1. Documented and recorded confirmation that since the FM’s pledge, £50 million per year has been invested into drug prevention and rehabilitation so far.
   
   Please include a breakdown of exactly how the money has been allocated and where it has been invested so far. Ideally this would be in the form a document that shows how much has been spent by the Scottish Government and which services received the pockets of money.’
   
   To answer this question, I would direct you to Section 8 of our National Mission: Annual Report, which outlines how the funding made available has been allocated in 2021/22.
2. A documented record of how the remaining amount of the £250 million has been allocated for the remaining years in the five-year period.

Income Source	2022/23 Budget	2023/24 Budget	2024/25 Budget	2025/26 Budget
National Mission (£50m)
Corra Funding	£13,000,000	£13,000,000	£13,000,000	£13,000,000
Recovery Fund. Increase residential rehabilitation places	£5,000,000	£5,000,000	£5,000,000	£5,000,000
Dedicated Alcohol and Drugs Partnerships (ADP) Funding	£30,313,795	£30,313,795	£30,313,795	£30,313,795
Developing public health surveillance, evaluation, monitoring and research	£1,500,000	£1,500,000	£1,500,000	£1,500,000
Total	£49,813,795	£49,813,795	£49,813,795	£49,813,795

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