Question follow-through · 44070
Household Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the Household Support Fund after March 2026.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the Household Support Fund after March 2026.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to a sustainable, long-term approach to drive up opportunity and drive down poverty across the UK. That is why we are providing £742 million in England to extend the Household Support Fund by a further year, from 1 April 2025 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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