Question follow-through · 94786
Crisis and Resilience Fund: Furniture Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using the Crisis and Resilience Fund to encourage local authorities to provide essential furniture and white goods items to those living in furnitu
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using the Crisis and Resilience Fund to encourage local authorities to provide essential furniture and white goods items to those living in furnitu
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2025
Answer published
My Department has actively engaged with stakeholders on the design of the Crisis and Resilience Fund through a structured co-design process involving a representative group of local authorities, third-party organisations and academics. We are considering ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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