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1686510

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date	31/01/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Household Support Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on low-income households of not renewing the Household Support Fund.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon
uin	HL2085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The current Household Support Fund runs from April 2023 until the end of March 2024, and the Government continues to keep all its existing programmes under review in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is putting significant additional support in place for those on the lowest incomes from April. Subject to Parliamentary approval, working age benefits will rise by 6.7% while the Basic and New State Pensions will be uprated by 8.5% in line with earnings, as part of the ‘triple lock'.</p><p> </p><p>To further support low-income households with increasing rent costs, the government will raise Local Housing Allowance rates to the 30th percentile of local market rents, benefitting 1.6m low-income households by on average £800 a year in 24/25. Additionally, the Government will increase the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 years and over by 9.8% to £11.44 representing an increase of over £1,800 to the gross annual earnings of a full-time worker on the National Living Wage.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL2087 HL2088 question first answered 12/02/2024 16:03:54 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4290 label Biography information for Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon

1686511

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Household Support Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the need for a funded strategy for local crisis support in England to ensure that councils can respond effectively to the needs of low-income households.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon
uin	HL2086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>Councils continue to have the flexibility to use funding from the Local Government Finance Settlement to provide local welfare assistance.</p><p> </p><p>Over £2bn in support has to date been allocated to Local Authorities in England via the Household Support Fund to support those most in need.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is putting significant additional support in place for those on the lowest incomes from April. Subject to Parliamentary approval, working age benefits will rise by 6.7% while the Basic and New State Pensions will be uprated by 8.5% in line with earnings, as part of the ‘triple lock”.</p><p> </p><p>To further support low-income households with increasing rent costs, the government will raise Local Housing Allowance rates to the 30th percentile of local market rents, benefitting 1.6m low-income households by on average £800 a year in 24/25. Additionally, the Government will increase the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 years and over by 9.8% to £11.44 representing an increase of over £1,800 to the gross annual earnings of a full-time worker on the National Living Wage.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 13/02/2024 14:53:07 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4290 label Biography information for Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon

1686512

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Household Support Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will meet the charities, including the Trussell Trust, Barnardo’s, and the Children’s Society, who are worried about how the closure of the Household Support Fund will affect the families that they support.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon
uin	HL2087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The current Household Support Fund runs from April 2023 until the end of March 2024, and the Government continues to keep all its existing programmes under review in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is putting significant additional support in place for those on the lowest incomes from April. Subject to Parliamentary approval, working age benefits will rise by 6.7% while the Basic and New State Pensions will be uprated by 8.5% in line with earnings, as part of the ‘triple lock'.</p><p> </p><p>To further support low-income households with increasing rent costs, the government will raise Local Housing Allowance rates to the 30th percentile of local market rents, benefitting 1.6m low-income households by on average £800 a year in 24/25. Additionally, the Government will increase the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 years and over by 9.8% to £11.44 representing an increase of over £1,800 to the gross annual earnings of a full-time worker on the National Living Wage.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL2085 HL2088 question first answered 12/02/2024 16:03:54 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4290 label Biography information for Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon

1686513

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Household Support Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the closure of the Household Support Fund on local crisis support.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon
uin	HL2088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The current Household Support Fund runs from April 2023 until the end of March 2024, and the Government continues to keep all its existing programmes under review in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is putting significant additional support in place for those on the lowest incomes from April. Subject to Parliamentary approval, working age benefits will rise by 6.7% while the Basic and New State Pensions will be uprated by 8.5% in line with earnings, as part of the ‘triple lock'.</p><p> </p><p>To further support low-income households with increasing rent costs, the government will raise Local Housing Allowance rates to the 30th percentile of local market rents, benefitting 1.6m low-income households by on average £800 a year in 24/25. Additionally, the Government will increase the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 years and over by 9.8% to £11.44 representing an increase of over £1,800 to the gross annual earnings of a full-time worker on the National Living Wage.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL2085 HL2087 question first answered 12/02/2024 16:03:54 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4290 label Biography information for Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon