Housing Benefit: Scotland

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Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much discretionary housing payment award he plans to give to each local authority in Scotland in 2014-15.


Answered by
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Steve Webb
This question was answered on 23rd October 2014

The Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments that has been made available to each local authority in Scotland for 2014/15 is shown in the table below. Local authorities will inform us as to how much of this they will claim at the end of the financial year.

Local Authority

Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments for 2014/15

Aberdeen

£308,438

Aberdeenshire

£480,948

Angus

£357,857

Argyll and Bute

£409,580

Clackmannanshire

£176,383

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

£109,743

Dumfries and Galloway

£732,662

Dundee

£484,174

East Ayrshire

£322,608

East Dunbartonshire

£102,435

East Lothian

£122,558

East Renfrewshire

£67,736

Edinburgh

£1,533,120

Falkirk

£258,058

Fife

£693,077

Glasgow

£2,724,843

Highland

£1,178,903

Inverclyde

£210,794

Midlothian

£183,798

Moray

£228,368

North Ayrshire

£408,703

North Lanarkshire

£692,677

Orkney

£50,592

Perth and Kinross

£380,620

Renfrewshire

£369,000

Scottish Borders

£464,841

Shetland

£71,267

South Ayrshire

£305,618

South Lanarkshire

£638,098

Stirling

£420,609

West Dunbartonshire

£339,751

West Lothian

£402,484

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