What capital funding has been given to (a) NHS National Services Scotland, (b) the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, (c) the Pro…

National ServicesScotland (NSS) is given an annual capital allocationof c.£5 million to meet minor capital requirements across all its internal divisions.All further capital funding is by way of additional allocation from the HealthDepartment for specific projects. The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service(SNBTS), a division of NSS, has not received any specific allocations from theHealth Department during the four year period in question.
The funding shownfor SNBTS, the Protein Fractionation Centre (PFC) and Alba Bioscience (Alba) hastherefore been made available from the minor capital fund allocated to NSS.
The information requested,including a split of the total capital funding between funding for specific projectsand the minor capital fund, is as follows:
Year
| Total Capital Funding to NSS
(£ Million)
| Capital Funding for Specific Projects1
(£ Million)
| Minor Capital Fund
(£ Million)
| Capital Funding to SNBTS2
(£ Million)
| Capital Funding to PFC
(£ Million)
| Capital Funding to Alba
(£ Million)

2003-04
| 18.4
| 13.9
| 4.5
| 1.45
| 0.32
| 0.09

2004-05
| 25.9
| 19.4
| 6.5
| 0.74
| 0.03
| 0.04

2005-06
| 21.9
| 16.9
| 5
| 2.34
| 0.63
| 0.05

2006-07
| 34.6
| 29.3
| 5.3
| 2.04
| 0.14
| 0.12