Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many of the responses to his Department's consultation on Local Welfare Provision 2015 to 2019 expressed a preference for each of options 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The Government received more than 5,000 responses to the consultation which are being considered, alongside the review by Department for Work and Pensions into existing provision. The Government will make a decision based on this analysis in time for the provisional local government finance settlement due shortly.