Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many children have received support through the Scottish Child Payment in (a) Aberdeen and (b) Scotland since its introduction.
Social Security Scotland routinely publishes information on Scottish Child Payment applications, payments and the number of children actively in receipt of the payment by local authority area.
While the latest statistics do not currently include information on the total number of children who have benefitted from Scottish Child Payment, they show that for Scotland, as of 30 September 2024, 325,790 children aged 0-15 years were actively benefitting from Scottish Child Payment. Of those children, 10,335 resided in Aberdeen City.
The next Scottish Child Payment publication, covering the period to the end of December 2024, will be published on 25 February 2025.