Local authority Emergency Assistance Grant for Food and Essential Supplies

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Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like some information about the Local authority Emergency Assistance Grant for Food and Essential Supplies your local authority has received from the government as part of its Covid support measures for communities.

If you could answer the following questions by filling in the attached form I'd be most grateful.

1) Can you please state
a) the amount your local authority has received under the above mentioned scheme, ANSWER: £________
b) when the money was received, ANSWER: _dd/mm/jjj_
and
c) how much of it has been spent to date? ANSWER: _£___________
If all of it has been spent, please
d) can you state by what date the money had been spent? ANSWER: __dd/mm/jjjj__

If less than 51% of the money your local authority received from the government in this scheme had been spent within 12 weeks of your authority receiving it, can you
e) please state why? ANSWER: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2) Can you state how much of these funds that have been awarded to private citizens who applied for emergency support was
a) awarded to women ANSWER: £____/ ____% (of all grants awarded)
b) awarded to men ANSWER: £____ / ____ % (of all grants awarded)
b) awarded to single parents ANSWER: £____ / ____% (of all grants awarded)
c) awarded to people with disabilities £____ / ____% (of all grants awarded)

3) Can you please state
a) how many applications in total your local authority received for emergency grants from members of the public? ANSWER: _____
b) how many of these were successful? ANSWER: _____ / _____% (of all applications)
c) what the highest grant was worth you awarded overall? ANSWER: £______

4) Can you please state how many people applied for assistance with
a) food? ANSWER: ____
b) energy? ANSWER: _____
c) accommodation costs? ANSWER: _____
d) other? ANSWER: _____

Yours faithfully,

Laila Devro

Financefreedomofinfortmation (Group), Bromley Borough Council

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Dear Ms Devro,
 
FOI 22432
 
Further to your recent FOI enquiry, please find the response to your
questions in blue below.
 
 
1) Can you please state
 
a) the amount your local authority has received under the above mentioned
scheme, ANSWER: £279k
 
b) when the money was received, ANSWER: 28/07/2020
 
and
 
c) how much of it has been spent to date? ANSWER: £279k
 
If all of it has been spent, please
 
d) can you state by what date the money had been spent? ANSWER: 31/10/2020
 
 
 
If less than 51% of the money your local authority received from the
government in this scheme had been spent within 12 weeks of your authority
receiving it, can you
 
e) please state why? ANSWER: N/A
 
 
 
2) Can you state how much of  these funds that have been awarded to
private citizens who applied for emergency support was
 
a) awarded to women ANSWER: This information is not held by the local
authority
 
b) awarded to men ANSWER: This information is not held by the local
authority
 
b) awarded to single parents ANSWER: 27.53% (of all grants awarded)
 
c) awarded to people with disabilities ANSWER: This information is not
held by the local authority
 
 
3) Can you please state
 
a) how many applications in total your local authority received for
emergency grants from members of the public? ANSWER: This information is
not held by the local authority
 
b) how many of these were successful? ANSWER: This information is not held
by the local authority
 
c) what the highest grant was worth you awarded overall?  ANSWER: This
information is not held by the local authority
 
 
 
4) Can you please state how many people applied for assistance with
ANSWER: This information is not held by the local authority
 
a) food? ANSWER: This information is not held by the local authority
 
b) energy? ANSWER: This information is not held by the local authority
 
c) accommodation costs? ANSWER: This information is not held by the local
authority
 
d) other? ANSWER: This information is not held by the local authority
 
 
We trust this completes your FOI enquiry which has now been closed.
 
Thank you for your enquiry.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Mrs Preston
Contract Monitoring Officer
Chief Executive’s Department
Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley BR1 3UH
[1]www.bromley.gov.uk
 
 
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