Question follow-through · 3661
Household Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to extend the household support fund after 30 September 2024.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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- Social Security Benefits: Disability · 11 Oct 2024
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to extend the household support fund after 30 September 2024.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government has announced funding to extend the Household Support Fund (HSF) for a further 6 months, from 1 October 2024 until 31 March 2025. An additional £500 million will be provided to enable the extension of the HSF, including funding for the Devo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pensioners: Poverty
5 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to establish a long-term strategy to end pensioner poverty.
Pensioners: Poverty
10 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will set up a Pensioner Task Force to (a) assess intersecting issues of income, housing, health and fuel costs and (b) make recommendations to tackle pensioner poverty.
Pensioners: Income
11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners have an annual income of between £11,383 and £20,000.
Pensioners: Fuel Poverty
11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of how many pensioners not receiving Pension Credit are spending more than 10% of their income on energy bills.
Pensioners: Income
12 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for the number of pensioners with an annual income of between £15,000 and £20,000.
Winter Fuel Payment: Pension Credit
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether pensioners who qualify for pension credit after 22 September 2024 and before 31 December 2024 are entitled to receive the winter fuel payment during winter 2024-25.
Work Capability Assessment
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reform the Work Capability Assessment.
Winter Fuel Payment
8 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adding Attendance Allowance to the list of benefits that qualify for the Winter Fuel Payment.
Carer's Allowance
8 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has considered the potential merits of (a) reviewing and (b) reforming the Carer's Allowance.
Personal Independence Payment
11 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of Personal Independence Payments at supporting the extra costs of disability.
Social Security Benefits: Disability
11 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to work with (a) disabled people and (b) disabled people's organisations to improve disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system.
Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents
15 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data her Department holds on the proportion of parents affected by the two-child benefit cap who are single parents.