Question follow-through · 53782
Household Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed welfare reforms on the capacity of the Household Support Fund.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 29 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed welfare reforms on the capacity of the Household Support Fund.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 May 2025
Answer published
Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper has been published here Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper. A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Gree...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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