A breakdown of funding provided to each local authority to support delivery of free personal care under Frank's Law: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for: 

A breakdown of funding provided to each local authority to support delivery of free personal care under Frank's Law in each financial year since 2019. 

The number of people aged under 65 who were receiving free personal care under Frank's Law in each financial year since 2019. 

Response

I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested. 

Some of the information you have requested in your first query is available from here: Local Governance Finance Settlement 2019-20 (www.gov.scot). 

For 2020-21, the following table contains the funding provided to each local authority to support the delivery of FPC to under 65s: 

2020-21	Free Personal Care  Under 65s
	£m
Aberdeen City	1.328
Aberdeenshire	1.374
Angus	0.587
Argyll & Bute	0.433
Clackmannanshire	0.272
Dumfries & Galloway	0.739
Dundee City	0.834
East Ayrshire	0.643
East Dunbartonshire	0.549
East Lothian	0.551
East Renfrewshire	0.481
Edinburgh, City of	3.057
Eilean Siar	0.133
Falkirk	0.863
Fife	1.958
Glasgow City	3.735
Highland	1.218
Inverclyde	0.415
Midlothian	0.479
Moray	0.498
North Ayrshire	0.696
North Lanarkshire	1.852
Orkney	0.113
Perth & Kinross	0.774
Renfrewshire	0.966
Scottish Borders	0.575
Shetland	0.120
South Ayrshire	0.564
South Lanarkshire	1.710
Stirling	0.514
West Dunbartonshire	0.482
West Lothian	0.987
Scotland	29.500

With effect from 1 April 2021, the £29.5 million funding was merged into the overall local government finance settlement block grant and, as such, individual local authority allocations are no longer separately identifiable. 

All of the information you requested in your second query is available here: Health and social care analysis - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). This link provides all of the data currently available regarding people under 65 receiving Free Personal Care in Scotland. Data for 2022-23 is not yet available but will be published via the same link in due course. 

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