Household Support Fund
(asked on 6th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee on 30th November 2022, HC 549, if he will publish data on the 28 per cent of local authorities that underspent their allocation of Household Support Fund.
For the grant period 6th October 2021 to 31 March 2022, for the Household Support Fund, 43% of Local Authorities underspent, however this was only by a small amount for most Local Authorities and only 17% underspent by more than 0.5% of their allocation.
Management information data for Household Support Fund (6th October 2021 to 31 March 2022), which includes total HSF awarded to each Local Authority and total spend by each Local Authority, is published and can be found Here.