Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer given to question S6W-30642 by Jenny Gilruth on 7 November 2024, whether it has completed its analysis of bids to the school meal debt fund and followed up with local authorities on the information provided and, if so, whether it will confirm how much funding in total has been received by local authorities through this fund.
Following analysis of local authority bids to the School Meal Debt Fund, £2,887,345.58 was allocated to 30 local authorities who applied for support. A breakdown of allocations is as follow:
Local Authority | Grant amount |
Aberdeen City | £411,977.90 |
Aberdeenshire | £145,751.82 |
Angus | £25,872.90 |
Argyll and Bute | £24,348.66 |
Clackmannanshire | £30,624.00 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | £10,057.61 |
Dumfries and Galloway | £29,439.63 |
Dundee City | £21,318.68 |
East Ayrshire | £82,180.63 |
East Dunbartonshire | £74,230.69 |
East Lothian | £54,354.71 |
East Renfrewshire | £53,760.77 |
Edinburgh, City of | £89,321.00 |
Falkirk | £60,181.31 |
Fife | £81,495.00 |
Glasgow City | £655,032.39 |
Highland | £115,747.76 |
Inverclyde | £74,041.99 |
Midlothian | £50,030.00 |
Moray | £38,295.85 |
North Ayrshire | £314,843.00 |
North Lanarkshire | £21,263.00 |
Orkney Islands | £7,330.52 |
Perth and Kinross | £29,310.43 |
Renfrewshire | £106,077.68 |
Scottish Borders | £3,908.21 |
Shetland Islands | £15,949.52 |
South Ayrshire | £28,214.73 |
South Lanarkshire | £224,215.00 |
Stirling | £8,170.19 |
SCOTLAND | £2,887,345.58 |