Question reference: S5W-29747
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 8 June 2020
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Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 15 June 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many discretionary housing payment awards have been made by local authorities during (a) March, (b) April and (c) May 2020, and what the total value was of those payments.
Answer
Cumulative awards and expenditure for Discretionary Housing Payments in 2019-20 to the end of March 2020 are available in the official statistics publication here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/discretionary
-housing-payments-in-scotland-1-april-2019-to-31-march-2020/ .
The figures to end of March 2020 show that there were 128,650 awards with a value of £66.0 million.
We will publish awards value data covering April and May 2020 on 7 July 2020 as pre-announced here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/official-statistics-forthcoming-publications/ .