How much it spent on welfare mitigation in each local authority area in 2014-15.

Scottish Government welfare reform mitigation funding is comprised of four categories:
Scottish Welfare Fund (SWF);
Council Tax Reduction (CTR) Scheme;
Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) (mitigation of the ‘bedroom tax’); and
Other mitigation funding (advice and support services and other measures to address poverty).
Statistics for the allocation and spend for the SWF, CTR Scheme and Discretionary Housing Payments in 2014-15 broken down by local authority area are published on the Scottish Government website at:
http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Social-Welfare/swf/SWF31Mar2015 (SWF)
http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/06/2028/downloads (CTR)
http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Social-Welfare/dhp/DHP31March2015 (DHP)
The following table sets out the 2014-15 general mitigation funding according to local authority area insofar as it has been possible to break it down to this level.
Allocation of other welfare mitigation by local authority 2014-15
Local Authority
Total Funding
Aberdeen City
£227,547.77
Aberdeenshire
£116,814.00
Angus
£134,528.75
Argyll and Bute
£73,386.48
City of Edinburgh
£366,793.92
Clackmannanshire
£91,560.51
Dumfries and Galloway
£56,726.20
Dundee City
£223,871.26
East Ayrshire
£82,151.93
East Dunbartonshire
£94,176.33
East Lothian
£138,095.48
East Renfrewshire
£75,578.10
Eilean Siar
£50,498.00
Falkirk
£158,166.06
Fife
£281,664.52
Glasgow City
£1,051,188.87
Highland
£324,568.27
Inverclyde
£150,891.30
Midlothian
£189,627.56
Moray
£92,274.79
North Ayrshire
£165,569.59
North Lanarkshire
£460,320.37
Orkney Islands
£7,328.00
Perth and Kinross
£123,668.06
Renfrewshire
£226,414.20
Scottish Borders
£114,154.68
Shetland Islands
£60,807.30
South Ayrshire
£43,869.73
South Lanarkshire
£180,385.55
Stirling
£37,404.41
West Dunbartonshire
£120,508.94
West Lothian
£185,936.02
Total
£5,706,476.95
Notes:
1. The table does not include funding for pan-Scotland projects where it is not possible to assign to project activity to particular local authority areas. When these are included, the total funding allocated to the general welfare reform mitigation budget in 2014-15 was £8.2 million.
2. Where a project operates in more than one local authority area, the total cost of the project has been divided equally amongst the number of authorities supported by the project.