Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
FOI Reference: FOI/202500468826
Date received: 2 June 2025
Date responded: 30 June 2025
Information requested
The following information as for winter 2024-25, winter 2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22, 2020-21 - broken down by each winter (do not provide them in aggregate - provide each point broken down by winter):
Request for information 1: Number of clients who received Child Winter Heating Payments (CWHP) for 2 children.
Request for information 2: Number of clients who received Child Winter Heating Payments for 3 children.
Request for information 3: Number of clients who received Child Winter Heating Payments for 4 children.
Request for information 4: Number of clients who received Child Winter Heating Payments for 5 children.
Request for information 5: Number of clients who received Child Winter Heating Payments for 6 children.
Request for information 6: Number of clients who received Child Winter Heating Payments for 7 or more children.
Request for information 7: Largest number of payments claimed by one client.
Request for information 8: Number of clients who received both Winter Heating Payment (WHP) and Child Winter Heating Payment (CWHP).
Request for information 9: Number of clients who received both Winter Heating Payment and Child Winter Heating Payments for 2 children.
Request for information 10: Number of clients who received both Winter Heating Payment and Child Winter Heating Payments for 3 children.
Request for information 11: Number of clients who received both Winter Heating Payment and Child Winter Heating Payments for 4 children.
Request for information 12: Number of clients who received both Winter Heating Payment and Child Winter Heating Payments for 5 children.
Request for information 13: Number of clients who received both Winter Heating Payment and Child Winter Heating Payments for 6 children.
Request for information 14: Number of clients who received Child Winter Heating Payments for 7 or more children.
Response
We have interpreted your requests to relate to Winter Heating Payment (WHP) and Child Winter Heating Payment (CWHP).
Requests for information 1 through 6 and 8 through 14:
Information relating to your requests is attached. This is management information, which has not been quality assured to the same standard as our Official Statistics - Social Security Scotland - Statistics.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Social Security Scotland does not have a small amount of the information you have requested. This is because Winter Heating Payment did not launch until the winter of 2022/2023.
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that Social Security Scotland does not have a small amount of the information you have requested.
Request for information 7:
In each winter period from 2020/21 to 2024/25, the largest number of Child Winter Heating Payments received by a single client was five.
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