Annual culture funding by the Scottish Government.xlsx

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	N	O	Q	R
1		2015-16 Outurn	2016-17 Outurn	2017-18 Outurn	2018-19 Outurn	2019-20 Outurn	2020-21* Outurn	2021-22* Outurn	2022-23 Outurn	2023-24 Outurn	2024-25 Autumn Budget Revision	2025-26 Draft Budget	2023-24 vs 2025-26 £	2023-24 vs 2025-26 %	2024-25 vs 2025-26 £	2024-25 vs 2025-26 %
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3	Cash terms (£m)
4	Arts and Culture	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	185.0	193.8	195.2	238.1	44.3	23	42.8	22
5	External Affairs	14.4	11.8	15.0	15.6	18.6	21.3	27.4	25.3	25.2	26.3	27.6	2.4	10	1.3	5
6	Historic Environment and Architecture	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	68.0	73.1	76.0	75.7	2.5	3	-0.3	0
7	National Records of Scotland	21.1	25.6	26.3	34.1	41.5	50.8	61.2	61.9	32.3	35.1	34.4	2.1	6	-0.7	-2
8	Historic Environment Scotland	45.3	43.1	41.5	42.7	40.7	82.5	77.0	0.0	0.0			0.0		0.0
9	Culture and Major Events	163.2	165.1	169.7	185.8	153.4	262.8	458.1		0.0			0.0		0.0
10	Historic Scotland	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0			0.0		0.0
11	Total Constitution, External Affairs and Culture	244.0	244.0	252.5	278.2	254.2	417.3	623.7	340.2	324.5	332.6	375.7	51.2	16	43.1	13
12	Total Culture Budget (excluding external affairs)	229.6	232.2	237.5	262.6	235.6	396.0	596.3	314.9	299.3	306.3	348.2	48.8	16	41.8	14
13	Change on previous year		2.6	5.3	25.1	-27.0	160.4	200.3	-281.4	-15.6	7.0	41.8
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15	Real terms (2025-26 prices, £m)
16	Arts and Culture	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	205.8	203.2	199.9	238.1	34.9	17	38.2	19
17	External Affairs	19.5	15.6	19.6	19.9	23.2	25.2	32.6	28.1	26.4	26.9	27.6	1.2	5	0.7	3
18	Historic Environment and Architecture	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	75.6	76.7	77.8	75.7	-1.0	-1	-2.1	-3
19	National Records of Scotland	28.6	33.9	34.3	43.6	51.8	60.1	72.9	68.9	33.9	36.0	34.4	0.5	1	-1.6	-4
20	Historic Environment Scotland	61.4	57.1	54.2	54.6	50.8	97.8	91.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0
21	Culture and Major Events	221.2	218.8	221.4	237.4	191.5	311.3	546.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0
22	Historic Scotland	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0
23	Total Constitution, External Affairs and Culture	330.7	323.4	329.5	355.6	317.3	494.5	743.3	378.5	340.1	340.6	375.7	35.6	10	35.2	10
24	Total Culture Budget (excluding external affairs)	311.2	307.8	309.9	335.7	294.1	469.3	710.7	350.3	313.7	313.7	348.2	34.4	11	34.5	11
25	Change on previous year		-3.4	2.1	25.7	-41.5	175.1	241.4	-360.3	-36.6	-0.1	34.5
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27	Real terms per person (2025-26 prices, £)
28	Arts and Culture	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	37.78	37.01	36.33	43.22	6.21	17	6.89	19
29	External Affairs	3.65	2.91	3.63	3.69	4.29	4.66	6.02	5.17	4.80	4.89	5.00	0.20	4	0.12	2
30	Historic Environment and Architecture	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	13.89	13.96	14.14	13.74	-0.23	-2	-0.40	-3
31	National Records of Scotland	5.34	6.31	6.37	8.09	9.57	11.11	13.46	12.65	6.18	6.53	6.24	0.07	1	-0.29	-4
32	Historic Environment Scotland	11.47	10.63	10.05	10.12	9.38	18.06	16.94	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00		0.00
33	Culture and Major Events	41.33	40.71	41.08	44.02	35.37	57.51	100.76	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00		0.00
34	Historic Scotland	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00		0.00
35	Total Constitution, External Affairs and Culture	61.80	60.17	61.13	65.92	58.61	91.35	137.18	69.49	61.95	61.89	68.20	6.25	10		10
36	Total Culture Budget (excluding external affairs)	58.15	57.26	57.50	62.22	54.32	86.69	131.16	64.32	57.15	57.00	63.20	6.05	11	6.20	11
37	Change on previous year		-0.9	0.2	4.7	-7.9	32.4	44.5	-66.8	-7.2	-0.1	6.2
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39	Notes:
40	Arts and Culture' includes Creative Scotland, National Cultural Collections, Other Arts and Activity, National Performing Companies
41	* Includes Covid-19 allocations
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43	Sources:
44	2025-26 Level 4 Budget tables
45	Outturn comparison 2015-16 to 2023-24
46	HM Treasury GDP deflator (October 2024)
47	ONS mid-year population estimates (Scotland)
48	ONS 2020-based interim national population projections (Scotland)
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50	Campaign for the Arts analysis
51	www.campaignforthearts.org
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