PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Household Support Fund: Government Assistance (10 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to deliver a long-term (a) funding settlement and (b) strategy for local crisis support when the Household Support Fund ends in March 2025.

Asked by:
Lisa Smart (Liberal Democrat)

The Government announced funding to extend the Household Support Fund (HSF) for a further 6 months, from 1 October 2024 until 31 March 2025.

As set out by the Chancellor in July, the Government has inherited a number of significant pressures within public spending and took immediate action to reduce spending in-year and set out a clear process to a Budget this autumn and a full Spending Review to follow. The Government will set out its overall fiscal and spending plans then.

Answered by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)
18 October 2024