Question reference: S5W-35484
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 24 February 2021
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Current status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 11 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-34397 by Aileen Campbell on 10 February 2021, whether it will provide an update on how many devices have been delivered to (a) older, (b) disabled and (c) socially-isolated people, and when it expects to deliver all 5,000 devices.
Answer
The Winter Support Package will provide devices to up to 5,000 individuals at risk of social isolation who are older or disabled.
As the target groups are not mutually exclusive, and not all organisations received the full amount of devices requested, it is not possible to confirm the total number of individuals supported in each group. From analysis of the applications, 74% of those supported are older people and 52% have a disability. This implies that 26% are disabled people aged under 60.
4,467 devices have been sent from the supplier to 343 local organisations. We expect all of these deliveries to be complete in March 2021. Our delivery partner, SCVO are in contact with the 48 organisations that have not returned contracts yet. Once these documents have been received, devices will be sent to organisations who then distribute to individuals.