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Written Question
Welfare Assistance Schemes
Wednesday 15th October 2014

Asked by: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on local authorities, families, charities and vulnerable individuals of ending local welfare assistance in April 2015.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

This issue is under review, I refer the noble Lord to the attached consultation paper on local welfare provision published by HM Government on 10 October 2014. I have placed a copy in the Library of the House.