Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 28 November 2023.
Stephen Timms
Chair, Work and Pensions Committee, Chair, Work and Pensions Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of 22 November 2023 by the Chancellor of the exchequer, Official Report, column 348, what the value of the Household Support Fund will be in 2024-25.
Mims Davies
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Government has provided over £2 billion in funding for the Household Support Fund since October 2021.
The current Household Support Fund runs from April 2023 until the end of March 2024.
No further decisions have been taken on the Household Support Fund, and the government continues to keep all its existing programmes under review in the usual way.
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