Housing Benefit: County Durham

(asked on 16th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much she allocated to Durham County Council for Discretionary Housing Payments in each of the last five years; and what information she holds on how much of that allocation is unspent.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 19th July 2018

Allocation and expenditure of Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) by Local Authorities (LAs) is publically available via the following official statistics series:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/discretionary-housing-payments-statistics

The financial returns section of the data tables, in the financial year releases, shows DHP financial expenditure and Government contribution by LA.

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