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Nicola Sturgeon's £500 NHS bonus is being funded by UK Government Covid grant

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UK Government to tackle Covid-19.The First Minister unveiled the £180million pledge at the SNP’s virtual party conference in November but has faced a backlash.While highly paid doctors and health service ­managers will pick up the bonus, ­thousands of low-paid frontline workers won’t receive a penny.Former Labour MSP and GP Dr Richard Simpson asked where the cash was coming from and which services would be cut as a result.The Sunday Mail can now reveal the money is coming from an emergency boost to Scotland’s Barnett ­Formula block grant from Westminster.In response to a Freedom of Information request, the Scottish Government admitted: “We have been provided with £8.2billion of Covid consequential support, which is allocated in Scotland.

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