Will the Minister provide a breakdown of the payments that Wales has received every quarter from the voluntary pricing and access scheme since its introduction in January 2019?
Since the introduction of the voluntary pricing and access scheme in January 2019 and March 2023, the Welsh Government received payments totalling £261.35m. The quarterly payments are broken down as follows:
Year Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Year total
2018-19 £10.94m £10.94m
2019-20 £11.27m £12.13m £12.49m £8.67m £44.55m
2020-21 £8.02m £8.72m £9.29m £7.16m £33.19m
2021-22 £7.70m £8.51m £9.11m £23.82m £49.13m
2022-23 £25.6m £27.29m £28.36m £42.25m £123.54m
Year totals may differ from the sum of individual quarters because of rounding