Annual Number of Applications Received under Financial Schemes of Community Development Councils in Past Five Years

Mr Leon Perera asked the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth (a) in the past five years, what is the annual number of applications received under the financial schemes of the Community Development Councils; (b) what are the mean and median processing times of such assistance; (c) what are the mean and median cash amounts of such assistance; and (d) what is the success rate of such assistance.

The number of beneficiaries helped by Community Development Councils (CDCs) has been increasing over the last five years. Over the last five years, the CDCs helped, on average, around 167,500 applications for financial assistance. On average, the processing of each case takes about two to three weeks, though cases for which urgent assistance is needed would have been expedited. The assistance provided in terms of cash quanta would be unique to the contextual factors in each case.