Emergency Assistance Grant for Food and Essential Supplies - Find a freedom of information request

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.

1. Can you please state:

a. The amount your local authority has received under the above mentioned scheme.

b. When the money was received.

c. How much of it has been spent to date. If all of it has been spent, please:

d. Can you state by what date the money had been spent? 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?

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: £____/ ____% (of all grants awarded).

b. Awarded to men: £____ / ____ % (of all grants awarded).

c. Awarded to single parents: £____ / ____% (of all grants awarded).

d. 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?

b. How many of these were successful?: _____ / _____% (of all applications).

c. What the highest grant was worth you awarded overall?

4. Can you please state how many people applied for assistance with:

a. Food?

b. Energy?

c. Accommodation costs?

d. Other?

1. a. £823,984.57

b. July 2020

c. £612,578.50 up to February 2021

d. N/A

2. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) did not distribute directly to private citizens, but instead paid sums to organisations that would distribute to private citizens. Therefore LCC does not hold the information requested.

3. Please see the response to question 2.

4. Please see the response to question 2.