Social Fund

(asked on 10th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total value was of (a) loans issued from the Social Fund and (b) successor arrangements made by local authorities in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013 and (v) 2014.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 15th June 2015

This information is published annually within the Social Fund Annual Report and is available on the Gov.uk website, (links provided). The data is reported for the financial year running from 1st April to 31st March; the 2014-15 report is due to be published later this year.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-by-the-secretary-of-state-for-work-and-pensions-on-the-social-fund-2009-to-2010

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-by-the-secretary-of-state-for-work-and-pensions-on-the-social-fund-2010-to-2011

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-by-the-secretary-of-state-for-work-and-pensions-on-the-social-fund-2011-to-2012

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-by-the-secretary-of-state-for-work-and-pensions-on-the-social-fund-2012-to-2013

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-fund-annual-report-2013-to-2014

Crisis Loans were abolished from April 2013 and the funding for them, and other parts of the poorly targeted Discretionary Social Fund, passed to local authorities in England and the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales to provide new support for vulnerable people in their communities. Councils are better placed to choose what type of support to provide because what is right for East Ham will not be right for East Sussex. They were not asked or expected to replicate the previous arrangements so comparisons cannot be made between the two.

We do not hold any information relating to local authority welfare spending.

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