Question reference: S6W-18298
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 24 May 2023
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Current status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 8 June 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many payments from the Tenant Grant Fund have been used to fully pay off rent arrears, in each month that the fund has been available.
Answer
Local authorities were responsible for the administration of the Tenant Grant Fund given their knowledge of local need. Each local authority provided the Scottish Government with quarterly returns showing spend against their funding allocation. Data on full versus partial mitigation of arrears was not provided routinely by all local authorities.
The quarterly information collected was published on the Scottish Government website here: Tenant Grant Fund monitoring report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) and is summarised below.
Quarters | Number of grants |
Q4 | 297 |
Q3 | 254 |
Q2 | 403 |
Q1 | 656 |
Until 31 Mar 2022 | 5,015 |