Long Covid funding: FOI release

Information requested

“All relevant information on what has been done with this funding* & why it’s not been fully used, & also what the £10 million pounds was used for over the three years.”

*Within your covering email, you have indicated that this funding refers to “an article published 10/07/24 in a tabloid, [where] it was stated that the SNP should have received around £21.7 million of long Covid funding in Barnett Consequential’s”.

Response

• All relevant information on what has been done with this funding & why it’s not been fully used

The answer to your question is that as outlined in our answer to Parliamentary Question S6W-24049 on 11 January 2024, no Barnett consequentials have been received by the Scottish Government specifically noted as relating to long COVID.

• All relevant information on what the £10 million pounds was used for over the three years

The table below provides a breakdown of expenditure from the £10 million Long COVID Support Fund over 2022-23 and 2023-24 by funding recipients. Additionally, as of 11 July 2024, a total of £2,077,367 has been allocated to organisations from the fund over 2024-25. The final amount spent by these organisations will only be known at the end of the financial year.

The Scottish Government remains committed to delivering the £10 million Long COVID Support Fund in full, and we anticipate that the remainder of the funding will be allocated within the financial years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026.

Organisation or project	Amount spent 2022-23	Amount spent 2023-24	Amount allocated 2024-25 (as of 11 July 2024)
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	£35,590	£134,523	£131,288
NHS Borders	£11,162	£49,253	£38,319
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	£0	£55,598	£55,598
NHS Fife	£0	£23,902	£124,636
NHS Forth Valley	£0	£110,631	£99,414
NHS Grampian	£34,125	£160,756	£178,393
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	£12,992	£582,859	£416,618
NHS Highland	£45,350	£167,586	£117,310
NHS Lanarkshire	£320,007	£320,007	£224,005
NHS Lothian	£63,265	£367,719	£268,168
NHS Orkney	£14,716	£14,716	£10,301
NHS Shetland	£0	£0	£9,573
NHS Tayside	£113,548	£194,620	£138,330
NHS Western Isles	£19,988	£19,988	£13,992
NHS National Services Scotland	£101,498	£277,144	251,422
NHS Inform microsite development	£18,276	£5,676	£0
Thistle Foundation	£27,228	£0	£0
Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)	£13,345	£0	£0
Covid Aid	£144,095	£0	£0
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland	£28,904	£0	£0
Long Covid Scotland	£25,000	£0	£0
Scottish Opera	£86,892	£0	£0
Scottish Ballet	£3,035	£0	£0
Total	£1,119,016	£2,484,978	£2,077,367

Details of the initiatives funding has been made available to support can be accessed within;

• Letter to Scottish Parliament COVID-19 Recovery Committee dated 20 December 2022
• Letter to Scottish Parliament COVID-19 Recovery Committee dated 21 March 2023

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