Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much expenditure was allocated from the Flexible Support Fund in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK on (i) childcare and (ii) other categories of activity in (A) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the table below.
Flexible Support Fund – Budget allocations (£m)
| 2019/20 |
Scotland | 3.4 |
Total | 37.8 |
The total figure shown is the allocation for England, Scotland & Wales.
Source : Hyperion
Numbers are rounded to the nearest £0.1m
Eligibility criteria is the same in all areas however Fair Start Scotland, Scottish Governments employability programme, may impact on expenditure. There are also other competing programmes with significant investment in Scotland which may impact on expenditure, as customers would not be eligible for FSF whilst participating on other programmes.
Flexible Support Fund – Expenditure breakdown (£’000)
Category | 2019/20 |
Partnerships | (15) |
Removing Barriers | 1,517 |
Training | 1,279 |
Childcare * | 60 |
Other | 55 |
Total | 2,896 |
Source: Hyperion
Numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand.
Negative numbers are in () and may reflect accounting adjustments.
* Childcare is only reported as a separate category from October 2019. Childcare expenditure between April 19 – September 19 cannot be separately identified and is reported within the Removing Barriers category.