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Household Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to monitor the success of the Household Support Fund in reaching (a) unpaid carers and (b) other financially vulnerable households.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
7 Jan 2025
Answer
7 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to monitor the success of the Household Support Fund in reaching (a) unpaid carers and (b) other financially vulnerable households.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Local Authorities have the discretion to design their own local schemes within the parameters of the guidance and grant determination that the Department for Work and Pensions have set out for the fund. This is because they have the ties and the knowledge...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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