Question follow-through · 61412
Discretionary Housing Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to expand discretionary housing payments to (a) Surrey and (b) other areas with high rental inflation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to expand discretionary housing payments to (a) Surrey and (b) other areas with high rental inflation.
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government announced through the Spending Review that Discretionary Housing Payments will be included in the new Crisis and Resilience Fund from April 2026. This will provide £842 million per year (£1 billion including Barnett consequential) to reform...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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