Discretionary Housing Payments in Scotland: Local Authority Financial Assistance

Discretionary Housing Payments are awarded by Scottish local authorities to housing benefit claimants requiring further financial assistance. This dataset contains experimental official statistics from the Scottish Government, last updated on July 8, 2026. The data likely tracks the allocation of these discretionary funds across Scotland.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in discretionary financial assistance for housing costs based on local authority decisions.
• Model the relationship between housing benefit claims and additional discretionary payments.
• Assess the geographic distribution of discretionary housing support across Scotland.

Strengths

• Data is designated as Experimental Official Statistics, indicating a formal statistical process.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, permitting reuse.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-07-08 13:32:04.023653.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Scottish Government

Collection Method

Likely administrative data collected from local authorities.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:04.023653; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Scotland