Question reference: S6W-08643
- Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 24 May 2022
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Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 June 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the (a) £349 million spare room subsidy and (b) £80.4 million welfare reforms mitigation has been allocated to Dundee City in each year from 2017-18 to 2022-23.
Answer
Scotland has budgeted £429.4 million in total for Discretionary Housing Payments since DHPs were devolved in 2017 to the 2022-23 financial year. This is broken down into £349 million for mitigation of the bedroom tax and £80.4 million for mitigating the impact of other welfare reforms. From that national figure, £16,369,752 has been allocated to Dundee City in total for DHPs which includes (a) £13,407,801 for bedroom tax and (b) £2,961,950 for “Other DHP”, used to mitigate welfare reforms.
SG funding for DHPs for Dundee City 2017-18 to 2022-23
Year | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | Total |
Bedroom Tax Budget | £1,890,097
| £1,997,619 | £1,962,771 | £2,220,151 | £2,758,235
| £2,578,928 | £13,407,801 |
Other DHPs | £444,520 | £420,079 | £427,962 | £813,391 1
| £427,185 | £428,813 2 | £2,961,950 |
Full Budget | £2,334,617
| £2,417,698
| £2,390,733
| £3,033,542 | £3,185,421 | £3,007,741 | £16,369,752 |
Note: These figures do not include administration funding
1. Figure includes a share of additional £8m of Covid-support funds
2. Figure does not yet include additional support committed for benefit cap mitigation in 2022-23.