Discretionary Housing Payments

(asked on 20th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in discretionary housing payments was allocated between March and July (a) 2020 and (b) 2019.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 23rd October 2020

Since 2013 the Department has requested that Local Authorities provide details of their use of Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) funds. This monitoring information is collected twice yearly; in the middle and at the end of the financial year.

The returns are published on-line, and the information to the end of March 2020 is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-financial-year-2019-to-2020/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-analysis-of-end-of-year-returns-from-local-authorities-april-2019-to-march-2020

DHPs for Scotland were devolved from 1 April 2017, information and statistics on the use of DHPs in Scotland are available here: DHPs in Scotland

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