Department for Work and Pensions: Public Expenditure

(asked on 28th February 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Liam Byrne Portrait
Liam Byrne
(Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will (a) list the spending programmes her Department devolves for administration to local government in England and other local spending bodies and (b) specify the value for each programme for every year for which budgets are agreed.

Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
This question was answered on 8th March 2022

DWP has the following spending programmes which it devolves for administration to local government in England and to other local spending bodies.

We have provided 2021/22 values for each programme.

Please note that we have not included any ESF-funded spend in this list

Programme name

Value 2021-22 (£m)

Reducing Parental Conflict (Workforce Development Grant)

3.8

Reducing Parental Conflict (CPA)

0.6

Household Support Fund Grant

421.0

Covid Winter Grant Scheme

59.0

Covid Local Support Grant

198.0

Housing Benefit Admin Subsidy

164.1

Housing Benefit New Burdens

18.6

HB Fraud and error initiatives - VEP and HBAA

22.2

Discretionary Housing Payments

131.8

Work and Health Programme

16.7

Work and Health Programme JETS

40.5

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