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.
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.