It is the responsibility of individual local authorities to manage their own budgets and to allocate the total financial resources available to them, including on school clothing grants, on the basis of local needs and priorities.In recent years the Scottish Government has added a further £13.9 million to support local authorities to provide eligible families with the national minimum amount of school clothing grant, as per our joint agreement with them.As local authorities are responsible for setting their own eligibility criteria for the school clothing grant, we do not hold information centrally about the percentage of families who will be eligible to receive the school clothing grant, and the number of grants we anticipate will be paid.Information about the number of children and young people who receive school clothing grants and the expenditure involved is provided within the annual Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics returns, which I have referred to in my answer to question S6W-28873 on 14 August 2024...