PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Welfare Assistance Schemes (3 December 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of how local authorities have spent funding allocated for Local Welfare Assistance; and what assessment will be used to inform the decision on funding for Local Welfare Provision in 2015-16.

Asked by:
Jeremy Corbyn (Independent)

The consultation on how local welfare provision should be funded in 2015/16 closed on 21 November. Government is analysing the responses alongside the Department for Work and Pensions’ review of current provision The Government will make a decision based on this analysis in time for the provisional local government finance settlement due shortly.

Answered by:
Kris Hopkins (Conservative)
9 December 2014