Question follow-through · 12657

Household Support Fund: Gloucester

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the extension of the Household Support Fund in 2025-26 on low-income households in Gloucester.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
6 Nov 2024
Answer
12 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the extension of the Household Support Fund in 2025-26 on low-income households in Gloucester.

  2. 6 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    No assessment has been made on the potential impact of the extension of the Household Support Fund in 2025-26 on low-income households in Gloucester. We are currently conducting an evaluation of the Household Support Scheme that ran from April 2023 to Mar...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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