Question reference: S6W-10972
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 8 September 2022
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Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much was (a) budgeted for and (b) spent from the Tenant Grant Fund, broken down by each year that the Fund has been in operation.
Answer
The Tenant Grant Fund was a £10 million fund with each local authority receiving a share. The latest set of full available data, provides an overview of Tenant Grant Fund spend as of 31 December 2021, by local authority area. This was published in March 2022 and is available here - Tenant Grant Fund monitoring report: January 2022 .
The next set of data will cover the three month period up to 31 March 2022 and will be published once all 32 local authorities have provided the relevant information and analysis has been carried out.
To date, data up to 31 March 2022 detailing expenditure, grant and refusal figures have been obtained for 28 local authorities. This shows £5,143,119.56 expenditure, 4,430 grants and 1,326 refusals.
As the fund has been expanded and local authorities will continue to use any remaining allocation in 2022-23 until fully spent, a final review will be carried out once all LAs have closed their funds.