United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 103583
Discretionary Housing Payments: Coronavirus
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Introduced
14 October 2020
Last action
19 October 2020 · Answer
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Answered
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Housing
Source updated
19 October 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the benefits of increasing discretionary housing payments budgets for councils during the winter 2020.
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14 October 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the benefits of increasing discretionary housing payments budgets for councils during the winter 2020.
Source: Commons
19 October 2020
Answer
We have provided £180m in Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) funding to Local Authorities (LAs) to support vulnerable claimants with housing costs in the private and social rented sector in England and Wales for 2020/21. This includes an extra £40m as an...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-10-14/103583
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1243377
- uk · wq-1243377 · source updated 19 October 2020