Discretionary Housing Payments in Scotland: 1 April 2024 to 30 September2024

This publication provides information on Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) in Scotland over the six-month period from 1 April 2024 to 30 September 2024.

Information on applications, determinations, awards and total award value are official statistics in development. Official statistics in development may be new or existing statistics, and will be tested with users, in line with the standards of trustworthiness, quality, and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics.

Scottish Government statistics are regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.

More information about Scottish Government statistics is available on the Scottish Government website.

The Scottish Government also collected management information on DHPs from local authorities from 1 April 2024 to 30 September 2024. This information is informally collected by the Scottish Government and includes total actual spend broken down by the purpose of the award. This collection replaces similar collections made by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in previous years (and still collected in England and Wales). Management information on expenditure by funding stream has been included in this publication.

All tables and charts relating to this publication can be found on the Scottish Government website here.