Discretionary Housing Payments

(asked on 27th May 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope Portrait
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope
(Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to make a statement on the adequacy of existing levels of Discretionary Housing Payments, and if so, when.

Answered by
Lord Freud Portrait
Lord Freud
This question was answered on 9th June 2015

There are no plans for Her Majesty’s Government to make any statement on Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) at this time as the financial and monitoring returns analysis for 2014/15 will be published on the morning of 25th June 2015, on the GOV.UK website.

The Department is committed to monitoring the allocation and use of DHPs and has published mid-year and annual reports using data provided by Local Authorities (LAs) which highlight over and under-spending LAs.

The release of this analysis into the public domain demonstrates the Department’s continuing commitment to supporting LAs efforts to use existing housing stock more effectively as, since 2013, the Department has made available £470 million in Discretionary Housing Payment funding, of which a significant sum is returned by LAs each year.

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