Discretionary Housing Payments: Equality
(asked on 14th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has undertaken an Equality Impact Assessment of its decision to reduce funding for Discretionary Housing Payments in 2022-23.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 23rd March 2022
The Department has embedded Equality Analyses into the manner in which we develop, deliver and evaluate the impact of our policies, practices and services. We considered equalities as part of discussions around Discretionary Housing Payment funding during the Spending Review process.