Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding has been provided for Social Fund Budgeting Loans in each of the last 10 years; and how much funding will be provided in each of the next five years.

Recoveries of the existing Social Fund debt stock are used to fund new Budgeting Loan payments therefore no funding is provided by Parliament, the money available is limited each year by the level of recoveries expected.