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 was made to each local authority in Scotland in 2013-14.
The Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments that was made available to each local authority in Scotland for 2013/14, alongside the amount of that funding claimed by each authority at the end of the year, is shown in the table below.
| Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments for 2013/14 | Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments claimed in 2013/14 |
Aberdeen | £369,125 | £369,125 |
Aberdeenshire | £594,825 | £463,374 |
Angus | £413,506 | £413,506 |
Argyll and Bute | £370,656 | £370,656 |
Clackmannanshire | £258,323 | £258,323 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | £107,388 | £91,177 |
Dumfries and Galloway | £658,354 | £658,354 |
Dundee | £457,506 | £457,506 |
East Ayrshire | £171,570 | £171,570 |
East Dunbartonshire | £107,919 | £107,919 |
East Lothian | £137,196 | £137,196 |
East Renfrewshire | £83,222 | £83,222 |
Edinburgh | £1,430,709 | £1,430,709 |
Falkirk | £179,720 | £179,720 |
Fife | £974,985 | £974,985 |
Glasgow | £2,892,818 | £2,892,818 |
Highland | £1,077,115 | £1,077,115 |
Inverclyde | £213,174 | £213,174 |
Midlothian | £231,483 | £231,483 |
Moray | £252,230 | £181,444 |
North Ayrshire | £429,823 | £429,823 |
North Lanarkshire | £587,526 | £587,526 |
Orkney | £64,359 | £64,359 |
Perth and Kinross | £523,618 | £260,198 |
Renfrewshire | £517,351 | £517,351 |
Scottish Borders | £450,553 | £450,553 |
Shetland | £72,457 | £72,457 |
South Ayrshire | £262,150 | £262,150 |
South Lanarkshire | £742,570 | £742,570 |
Stirling | £400,324 | £400,324 |
West Dunbartonshire | £872,472 | £872,472 |
West Lothian | £364,648 | £364,648 |