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date	26/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cost of Living: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his statement on the economic update on the 26 May 2022 and his commitment to legislate to deliver support on the same terms in every part of the UK, whether it is his policy that people with the same circumstances will receive the same level of support regardless of where they live.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	9836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>Most of the support announced by the Chancellor on 26 May is being provided directly to households in all parts of the UK by the UK Government.</p><p> </p><p>The one-off Cost of Living payments will be paid directly to households across the UK. In the absence of a functioning Executive in Northern Ireland, the UK Government is supporting the Northern Irish people through these payments, on exactly the same terms as the rest of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Energy Bill Support Scheme applies to Great Britain only, but equivalent support will be provided to people in Northern Ireland, and the Household Support Fund is England-only, but the devolved administrations will receive around £79 million through the Barnett formula.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 06/06/2022 08:48:03 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1466511

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date	26/05/2022
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what way allocations to local authorities are to be calculated in the context of the £500 extension to the household support fund.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	9837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>Government is providing an additional £500 million from October to help households with the cost of essentials, bringing the total funding for this support to £1.5 billion. In England £421m will be used to extend the Household Support Fund (October 2022 – March 2023).</p><p> </p><p>Guidance and individual local authority indicative allocations for this further extension to the Household Support Fund will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 06/06/2022 16:56:55 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts