Question reference: S6W-22995
- Asked by: Collette Stevenson, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 17 November 2023
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Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 4 December 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many children in the East Kilbride constituency it expects will receive support from the Child Winter Heating Payment in the current financial year.
Answer
The Scottish Fiscal Commission publish estimates and forecasts of the number of people receiving payments for Child Winter Heating Assistance. The Scottish Fiscal Commission do not publish estimates and forecasts for the number of people receiving payments by area within Scotland. In their May 2023 publication it was forecast that a total of 29,000 people will receive payments in the financial year 2023-24.
Social Security Scotland publish statistics for the number of historic payments for Child Winter Heating Assistance by Local Authority but not at constituency level. Statistics for 2023-24 are not yet available. In the South Lanarkshire Local Authority, 1,955 payments for Child Winter Heating Assistance were made in the Winter of 2022-23.
Internal Scottish Government analysis using the Social Security Scotland statistics, in combination with published population data, suggests an estimate of 500 payments were made in East Kilbride in the Winter of 2022-23.