FOI Request - COVID Support Payments

Request 101002646066

The UK government and devolved governments have implemented £500 support payment schemes for those who are told to self-isolate by their administration’s respective testing and tracing scheme.
These schemes are being executed by local authorities.
I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Since the support scheme’s beginning until week ending 22/11/2020 , on a weekly basis by week ending:
1. The number of applications received for the £500 support payment.
2. The number of £500 payments that have been made to those eligible for the payment based on government guidelines.
3. The number of £500 payments that have been made on a discretionary basis by the council.
4. If it is not possible to separate the payments by eligible and discretionary, please provide one number for the total number of £500 support payments each week.
5. If collating the data by week would cause the request to exceed the cost limit under section 12 of the FOIA then please submit the information as a total since the inception of the scheme.
6. I would like the data to be presented as a .csv or .xlsx conforming to the template attached.

Response 18.12.20

Due to low numbers, we are unable to disclose a breakdown of data for this request as it may lead to the identification of individuals - this response is therefore exempt under Section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - personal information relating to a third party.

However, we can provide the total requests received and paid between the dates requested: 

Total requests received: 15

Total requests paid: 4