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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department is responsible for allocating funding for local welfare assistance schemes.

Responsibility for funding for local welfare provision was passed over from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) from April 2013. The MHCLG would lead on any changes in allocation with input from the DWP.