Scottish Recovery Consortium funding: FOI release

Information requested

1. Is Scottish Recovery Consortium 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:

All the information requested for financial years 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 is available from the following websites:

2021/22 report: National Mission on Drugs: annual report 2021 to 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2022/23 report: National Mission on Drugs: annual report 2022-2023 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.

A detailed breakdown of the funding given to the organisation for the remaining financial years you requested is presented in the table below.

2018 / 2019	£395,190.00
2019 / 2020	£422,000.00
2020 / 2021	£754,500.00
2023 / 2024	£795,000.00

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 did not contain any conditions in relation to the organisation’s support for the Minimum Unit Pricing policy.

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