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Written Question
Household Support Fund
Wednesday 20th December 2023

Asked by: Lord Polak (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Autumn Statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 22 November (HC Deb cols 325–357), what plans they have to extend the Household Support Fund.

Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)

The Government has provided over £2 billion in funding for the Household Support Fund since October 2021.

The current Household Support Fund runs from April 2023 until the end of March 2024, and the Government continues to keep all its existing programmes under review in the usual way.

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