Question reference: S2W-20018
- Asked by: John Farquhar Munro, MSP for Ross, Skye and Inverness West, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 25 October 2005
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Current status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 November 2005
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was paid to the Haemophilia Society in each year from 1980 to 2004 and what the purpose was of these payments.
Answer
The Haemophilia Society has received grant funding under section 16B of the NHS (Scotland) Act 1978, amounting to £10,000 in each financial year from 1996-97 to 2005-06. The purpose of these grants is to offer the society a contribution to the costs of the support and information services it provides to people with haemophilia in Scotland.