Request 101004076461

1.  a) Has the council exhausted all the funding which it was allocated in the Scottish Welfare Fund in the current financial year? 

b) If so, when was this funding exhausted and does the council continue to make welfare grants using other funding?

2.           If the council's Scottish Welfare Fund allocation has not yet been exhausted, does the council project that it will be exhausted before the end of the current financial year, and if so when is the funding projected to be exhausted?

3.           Does the council have any specific policy regarding the use of Scottish Welfare Fund grants by its own staff, or any specific measures in place to support its staff to access such grants?

4.           How many Scottish Welfare Fund grants has the council made in the current financial year?

Of these, how many were grants made to the council's own staff?