Question follow-through · 110058

Department for Work and Pensions: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to SOPS 1.1 in the Department's 2024-25 Annual Report, if she will publish a breakdown of the £1,030,869,000 in gross spend on Programme Resource Outturn in H: Other Benefits in 2024-25;

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 2 Feb 2026
Target answer date: 5 Feb 2026
Answer: 13 Mar 2026 · 39 calendar days after tabling

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2 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to SOPS 1.1 in the Department's 2024-25 Annual Report, if she will publish a breakdown of the £1,030,869,000 in gross spend on Programme Resource Outturn in H: Other Benefits in 2024-25;
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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13 Mar 2026
Answer published
Please see attached Annex. We can confirm that the increase in recent years compared to 2020-21 is primarily due to the Household Support Fund. The Household Support Fund came in October of 2021 so is not included in the 2020-21 ARA.

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