How many people registered as homeless are housed in private rented accommodation paid for by local authorities and what the average cost o…

Private rented sector accommodation is used to address homelessness on both a temporary and more settled basis. The table below sets out the overall usage for 2007-08 as recorded via national homelessness statistics.
Where a tenant is eligible for support with the cost of the rent, this is met in the main through housing benefit. The Scottish Government does not collect information centrally on the costs of private rented sector accommodation provided for homeless people, nor whether any additional costs are met by local authorities. The Department for Work and Pensions publishes statistics on the numbers of private tenants in receipt of housing benefit and the average rent allowance paid to private tenants. However these statistics do not separately identify those who have been assessed as homeless.
Local Authority
| Private Rented Sector
Used Before Final Outcome
| Private Rented Sector
Used as Final Outcome

Aberdeen City
| 0
| 6

Aberdeenshire
| 3
| 37

Angus
| 31
| 12

Argyll and Bute
| 50
| 54

Clackmannanshire
| 4
| 13

Dumfries and Galloway
| 1
| 46

Dundee City
| 0
| 71

East Ayrshire
| 2
| 37

East Dunbartonshire
| 29
| 35

East Lothian
| 12
| 40

East Renfrewshire
| 0
| 11

Edinburgh
| 0
| 881

Eilean Siar
| 4
| 16

Falkirk
|