Interim Programme Lead, Obesity Action Scotland Funding: FOI release

Information requested

1. Is Interim Programme Lead, Obesity Action Scotland 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

The answer to your question is:

I can confirm that £1,307,917​ was paid to Obesity Action Scotland 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	£185,000
2019 / 2020	£200,000
2020 / 2021	£225,000
2021 / 2022	£230,000
2022 / 2023	£269,800
2023 / 2024	£198,117
TOTAL	£1,307,917

Please be aware that the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG) acted as host for funding given to Obesity Action Scotland. Other funding allocated to the RCPSG outwith Obesity Action Scotland is provided in FOI Release 202400413519.

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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