Scottish Government funding breakdown to the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme: FOI release

Information requested

1. The Scottish Government to breakdown the source of SIBSS (Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme) funding for each year since it has been established?
2. How much has Scottish Government paid in each year and how much has been inputted by UK Government?

Response

The answer to your question is illustrated in the table below: 

Financial Year	Total SIBSS Expenditure	of which UK Government HIV funding1	of which UK Government Parity Funding2	Scottish Government funding
2017/18	£6,967,561	£519,000		£6,448,561
2018/19	£8,392,939	£786,000		£7,606,939
2019/20	£9,491,747	£751,662		£8,740,085
2020/21	£9,992,190	£714,000		£9,278,190
2021/22	£23,352,668	£723,000	£13,435,661	£9,194,007
2022/23	£16,098,268	£731,000	£4,958,078	£10,409,190
2023/24	£17,131,403	£735,000	£5,780,545	£10,615,858

1. UK Government provide funding to the Scottish Government for SIBSS beneficiaries infected with HIV, or who are coinfected with both HIV and Hepatitis C, as MFET Ltd, the Macfarlane and Eileen Trusts were all previously funded by UK Government, so this funding has continued to be provided by UK Government following the establishment of SIBSS.

2. Following comments about the disparities between infected blood payments across the UK by the Chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry, Sir Brian Langstaff, in 2021 agreement was reached in between the four devolved governments to reduce these disparities. UK Government provides “parity” funding to meet the increased costs of this agreement.Payments made in 2021-22 includes costs for backdating parity payment increases to April 2019 as well as providing lump sum payments to some beneficiaries and estates (which is why expenditure was higher in 2021-22). However, this table excludes expenditure paid by SIBSS on behalf of the UK Government on interim compensation from October 2022 onwards.

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