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Social Security Scotland publishes benefit specific information on overpayments in their Annual Report and Accounts. It does not publish data on the number of occasions, or the amounts, where individual recipients of Job Start Payment have been required to repay either part or all of the payment. As such, this information is not available broken down by year or local authority area.

Social Security Scotland publishes benefit specific information on overpayments in their Annual Report and Accounts. It does not publish data on the number of occasions, or the amounts, where individual recipients of Best Start Foods have been required to repay either part or all of the payment. As such, this information is not available broken down by year or local authority area.

Social Security Scotland publishes benefit specific information on overpayments in their Annual Report and Accounts. It does not publish data on the number of occasions, or the amounts, where individual recipients of Young Carer Grant have been required to repay either part or all of the payment. As such, this information is not available broken down by year or local authority area.

Social Security Scotland publishes benefit specific information on overpayments in their Annual Report and Accounts. It does not publish data on the number of occasions, or the amounts, where individual recipients of the Best Start Grant Pregnancy and Baby Payment have been required to repay either part or all of the payment. As such, this information is not available broken down by year or local authority area.

Social Security Scotland publishes benefit specific information on overpayments in their Annual Report and Accounts. It does not publish data on the number of occasions, or the amounts, where individual recipients of Child Winter Heating Payment have been required to repay either part or all of the payment. As such, this information is not available broken down by year or local authority area.

The following table has been published by Public Health Scotland on 28 October 2025 and shows the number of inpatient and day case admissions to hospital where a diagnosis of dog bites or strikes was recorded, from 2021-22 to 2024-25, in Scotland.

The information is provided by financial year.

The information requested regarding fines issued under the High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013 is not held centrally.

It is not possible to provide such information because in line with usual practice, details of individual tasks carried out by civil servants, including the number of hours spent on them are not routinely recorded as there is no business need to do this. Civil servants across a range of different business areas contributed to this publication as part of their normal duties supporting the Scottish Government.

The Scottish Government has consistently proactively published information on costs for independence papers, once all costs have been incurred.

Costs associated with the publication of the A Fresh Start with Independence paper will be available in due course.

Decision Notices of the Scottish Information Commissioner are published on the Commissioner's website: Decisions | Scottish Information Commissioner.

For the purposes of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, ‘the Scottish Ministers’ Scottish public authority includes the Scottish Government and its executive agencies. The Commissioner's website shows the following Decision Notices issued to 'the Scottish Ministers' and executive agencies in each year since 2021: